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Re: [RE: OB. Second twin (was: BREECH PRESENTATION...)]From: DoctorJoe@aol.comSun Dec 6 14:14:36 1998
In a message dated 12/6/98 3:04:58 PM, Malcolm@MGRIFF22.demon.co.uk writes:
<<>There being no way to politely say this, I will just say this is a bunch of
>crap! Being a second twin, vaginal delivery, with an IQ of well over 180, I just knew there'd be one! How reliable are IQ measurements at this end of the scale! Seem to recall (from when I passed my MENSA test) that rather less than 1% of the population had an IQ of 150. Assuming a normal distribution "well over 180" must be several standard deviations from the mean. Say ~ 0.00001% ?>> Well, I have a theory about that... As you know, if you look at the LOW end of the IQ bell-shaped curve, you can have "normal" low IQ folks, who are morphologically and genetically normal, but they happen to be on the low end of the curve, and then you have discrete populations of individuals, e.g. Down syndrome patients, who exist AS A POPULATION with their own bell-curve mean below the "normal" bell curve. Now, as a physics major way back when, I learned that Nature was SYMMETRICAL. So if there are populations of "abnormals" at the LOW end of the curve, as differentiated from the "normal" low IQ folks, then there SHOULD be populations of ABNORMAL HIGH IQ PEOPLE at the upper end of the scale, mixing in with the "normal" smart folks.... Seems only reasonable to me... The upshot of that is this: Look around you, doctors. Your colleagues are in the upper end of the IQ scale, right? BUT -- which ones of them are "smart normals", and which ones of them belong to a PATHOLOGICAL group of high IQ mutants?!?!?!?!?! Geeze, it scares me every time I think of it... THE MAN P.S. Yeah, yeah, I was a Mensan... I quit because all they talked about was sex. Then I joined I.S.P.E., which is a higher IQ group even than MENSA... I dropped out of that, too, because they DIDN'T ever talk about sex... And so it goes...
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