Re: Intelligence, was: Clause "with and use"

[Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:07:44 GMT, "Anders Wirzenius"
<anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi> wrote:

><christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> wrote in message
>news:mailman.290.1068108838.25614.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
>> "Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler" <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Russ wrote:
>> > >Do you have any idea what that says
>> > >about your intelligence?
>> >
>> > Referring to some other posting from you that follow the same
>style,
>> > I'd say: "Yes, I am an idiot." Satisfied?
>> >
>> > >You might as well just blurt out, "I'm an idiot".
>> >
>> > Well, and after all I've read from you, you might as well say,
>"All
>> > Ada programmers are idiots". Be it so.
>>
>> Well said :-) I know I'm an idiot, too, but I like it...
>>
>
>So be it.
>I don�t consider me to be an idiot and I think other�s opinions about
>me as an idiot or not don�t count very high in my priorities. A person
>with a lower IQ is usually happy with himself until "corrected" by
>another person.
>
>Wasn�t Vincent Van Gogh mentally ill? But he made lovely paintings!

Painting does not require the mental power which people usually called
idiots lack. An idiot could well be a genial painter or writer. I
would say that a truly great one also should be, to some extent.

>Wasn't Beethoven deaf when he wrote his ninth symphony?

As for this particular case, he wasn't an idiot!

>Why cannot an idiot write excellent code?

Put it otherwise. What is the probability that a piece of an excellent
code was written by an idiot?

>I somewhere read about an intelligence investigation that considered
>some jungle tribe to have a lower IQ because they where not quite
>familiar with the usage of a simple phone model.

A plainly incorrect experiment! Jungle trimes should have much higher
IQ than we, because they don't use C++! (:-))

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