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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1211948" data-attributes="member: 2013">To go back to the original question...Yes, I believe gamers are above average in intelligence.BUT I believe &quot;average intelligence&quot; today is sickeningly low compared to &quot;average intelligence&quot; twenty years ago... when most of the gamers got their start.In other words, I believe you're pulling an anachronistic sample when you study gamers.To me, and I don't want to sound all &quot;high and mighty&quot; here, but I'll say it anyway... the &quot;average person&quot; of today is a blithering idiot... as evidenced by the success of such shows as &quot;American Idol&quot; and &quot;Survivor&quot; and other such drivel.I recall fondly a conversation I had with a classmate after class in college once...The sad thing was, it was true.&nbsp; There were students in that honors class that - I am not making this up - could barely READ (and not because English was their second language, either).The world is absolutely full of stupid people.&nbsp; And odds are, you and I both are some of them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 1211948, member: 2013"] To go back to the original question... Yes, I believe gamers are above average in intelligence. BUT I believe "average intelligence" today is sickeningly low compared to "average intelligence" twenty years ago... when most of the gamers got their start. In other words, I believe you're pulling an anachronistic sample when you study gamers. To me, and I don't want to sound all "high and mighty" here, but I'll say it anyway... the "average person" of today is a blithering idiot... as evidenced by the success of such shows as "American Idol" and "Survivor" and other such drivel. I recall fondly a conversation I had with a classmate after class in college once... The sad thing was, it was true. There were students in that honors class that - I am not making this up - could barely READ (and not because English was their second language, either). The world is absolutely full of stupid people. And odds are, you and I both are some of them. :( --The Sigil [/QUOTE]

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