12-04-2007, 02:12 PM
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 | You Magnificent Bastard | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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Originally Posted by DennyCrane 
To Coffee, you'd grasp some of his schtuff because a) you have inate intelligence and b) this intelligence gives you the ability to grasp concepts.
Concepts are ideas, theories, intangibles- being able to see X and Y and imagine a path to Z. Hawking is just that much more intelligent, that you'd grasp some, but not all. An idiot wouldn't get a thing and what would he say?
"This is stupid!"
And Tyrant, ignorance is lack of education, so no- let's look at the Office Idiot. He really does think he's smart even though he's shown everyday how his actions were stupid. He has no idea the difference between him and someone with a normal IQ.
| I guess we'd have to define the level of intelligence of the "idiot" to be able to define at what point the person overcomes his own lack of intelligence to realize that he is average, or below average.
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