On 02/03/2005 11:55:24 AM, gbrandt at tampabayfederal.com wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dave Godwin [mailto:dave at waveridersystems.com] > > > > I don't mind normal stupid. It's like George Carlin said: > "Remember > > folks, > > the average human IQ is only 100 points, and half of them are even > dumber > > than that". George Carlin's statement is misleading. The average IQ is a range. It is closer to being correct to say 1/2 of the population is average, leaving 1/4 above and 1/4 below average. (I don't know what the actual numbers are - nor even whether standard deviation means much here). Average people get treated one way in school, and the extremes get treated other ways. Although speaking of IQ. Isaac Asimov was periodically interested in MENSA. What bothered him about it was that there were so many people with political views completely different from his. If smart people can't even agree on who to vote for - maybe IQ doesn't mean that much. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/