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Hawke[_3_]

On 1/13/2012 1:39 PM, wrote:
On Jan 13, 3:00 pm, wrote:

No you don't. Because of your bias you wouldn't recognize how smart I am
even if it's obvious to others. I know from my education and from how I
interact with really intelligent people, and from IQ tests that I am
above average in intelligence. So your statement is false.

Hawke

But saying you are above average in intelligence is not saying very
much. Half the people in the U.S. are above average in intelligence.

That's true. I am not saying all that much about how smart I am. I let
others do that and I let the intelligence tests do that. However, I also
know from being in graduate school that I was able to compete
intellectually with some of the smartest people around. In addition,
with all the professors having doctorate degrees they confirmed that I
was perfectly capable of operating on the level of everybody else that
was there, including them. That doesn't mean that I didn't know that
some of those professors were definitely smarter than me. A genius I'm
not. I've seen some in person and I'm not even close. But compared to
the ordinary guy I'm pretty good. At least I'm on the right side of the
bell curve.

Hawke