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On 10/17/12 11:05 PM, Dwight Hutto wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I can't ascertain what your strengths are as I don't work with you on a daily basis (one of the many benefits of working with people smarter than you ;)).
>>>
>>> Doubt that, unless they have 160+ I.Q.'s(been seeing psychiatrists
>>> since I was 13). I'm very secure in my childlike intellectualism.
>>
>> A high IQ just proves ability to score well on IQ tests. On the whole,
>> your statement strikes me as reminiscent of Sheldon Cooper's
>> insistence that "I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested!".
>
> Someone insulted my intelligence, and stated how they worked with much
> smarter people...this was just a confidence statement that I'm
> intelligent as well, so don't get uppity with me.

No, you misread his sentence. That's not at all what he was saying. He was 
saying that one of the benefits that a person may get from working with people 
smarter than said person is that they can ascertain said person's strengths.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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