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From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jonathan Corbet)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Intelligence
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Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 12:00:57 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  8 12:00:57 1985
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	This discussion is one of the more interesting ones I have seen in
this group for a while.  It strikes a lot of nerves.  Let me say from a lot
of personal experience that being the "smart kid" in a small town school
(try Wilson, Wyo. for SMALL!) is not an easy experience, especially when one
is not all that strong (most of the boys were cattle-wrestlers, literally),
and tends to have longish hair and liberal attitudes.  And people wonder why
I came to Colorado...
	But anyway, I, too, have found that I have a hard time getting close
to women whose intelligence does not impress me.  Sometimes I think that I am
just to finicky for my own good, and that's why I spent so much time without an
SO, but then I find somebody with whom I can really talk, and I understand what
I am waiting for.

>> Screening on intelligence alone narrows my choices to less than 2%  of  the
>> general  population.

>          It seems to me that *any* selection criteria that eliminates 98%
>of the candidates is self-defeating.

	I must disagree, Greg; I would say that I am probably just as fussy
as the person (I don't know who that was) in the first quote.  Sure enough,
that makes it hard to find people, but bad experiences with the wrong people
can make it even harder.
	Has anybody else found any solutions to this type of problem?  I went
to one of the local Mensa parties at the invitation of a member, and I 
found a bunch of people (mostly male) sitting around talking about how they were
so much smarter than everybody else.  I was not impressed.  I have found that
most of the truly intelligent women I meet are at work, since there are a lot
of women who go into atmospheric sciences.  But that is not a good place to be
looking for romance, so I am at a loss.  I am trying to find a good literary
discussion group or some other place to meet intelligent women, but little
luck so far.  Maybe it's time to go back to school.

jon
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Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
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