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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1213408" data-attributes="member: 2205">Without saying anything negative about how stupid the world is these days, I think my experience tends to show that gamers are just like any other slice of the population.  Are gamers more intelligent than dachtsund breeders?  Nope, we just both have unusual hobbies.  Chances are a lot of people do.  Chances are, I bet, that a model could be built to show that any self-selected group, like aficionados of a somewhat non-mainstream hobby are similar.  Is any one non-mainstream hobby likely to attract more intelligent people than another?  Possibly, if it's a hobby that you have to be intensely intelligent to even indulge in.  Gaming is not that hobby, however.  I doubt the average gamer is any more intelligent than your average dachtsund breeder, and I think with a little effort I could whip up a logical base on which to built a predictive model that would show why that is so.  If I thought it was worth the effort, which I don't.We've had this discussion before not that long ago, I think.  I think it's a common conceit amongst gamers that we're more intelligent, and that may even date back to the "dark years" when gamers were fairly set-upon because gaming was supposed to be at best very nerdy and at worst Satanic and evil.  I think the perception of gamers as smarter than average was a compensating factor, but it's psychological and reactionary in nature rather than empirical or even logical or certainly true.Anyway, that's obviously wild speculation, but that's my personal belief anyhow.</blockquote>

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