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From: jimb@ism780
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Subject: Re: Skipping grades -> Undersociali
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Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 20:48:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 20:48:00 1986
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> Good point.  Maybe the social incompetents (that's really
> too harsh of a term) are attracted to the social role of "scientist"
> because they think that the scientific community will be more
> logically minded about liking them etc.

> Well, I am not a scientist, and don't have all that high of an IQ,

STOP THE PRESSES.  A genuinely modest person -- whether accurate in their own
self-appraisal or not -- IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INTELLIGENTLY COUCHED POSTING,
has seen fit to downplay their own capabilities without the slightest hint
of irony or sarcasm.  I suspect that interrogation of the author would also
reveal a lack of belief that she holds charter on Holy Writ, Revealed Truth,
or the Font of Wisdom.  In the year+ that I've been reading the net, this is
unheard of.  Is it a violation of netiquette?  Is custom higher than law?
What is the price of fish in Helsinki?

> but I think I went through what some of these people are going
> through.  The problem is not totally specific to high IQs.

Damned straight.  Most of the problems that us hotshots reading the net have
are just like anybody elses.  Maybe we agonize a little more articulately,
but that's it.  (And because it's more articulate doesn't mean it's better.)

I do not mean to mock the net.readership at large, only most of it, myself
included.  The casual off-hand manner in which the author expressed herself
is admirable.  Kudos.

> Laura Watson      ...![ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd allegra]!burl!lkw
 
> Advice is like kissing:  it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing
> to do.
 
Hmmm.  Kissing is a lot more fun.  Besides, if you're kissing, your half
of the kiss is automatically accepted, which is more rewarding than most
episodes of advice.

		-- from the bewildered musings of Jim Brunet

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