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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 1214683" data-attributes="member: 11581">I firmly believe that gamers are, in fact, a superior group of people to the "masses" simply by the fact that they are a self-selected group: There are inherent entry barriers to becoming one. The same applies to any *OTHER* selected hobbyist group. There's simply a cutoff point beyond which somebody is simply incapable of even stumbling through the hobby to serve as an object of ridicule and mockery to his peers. Anytime you have a selective group of people, those people are in some way, as an average, above the "masses" in whatever attributes that the hobby emphasizes. Anytime somebody has an encyclopedic knowledge, however seemingly useless it may otherwise be, that pertains to SOMETHING he finds useful, he's STILL better off than somebody who has no knowledge of ANYTHING useful....and there's an awful lot of people like that. There are an awful lot of those zero-point people who have no useful knowledge or ability in anything. People who just kinda amble through life with no interest or purpose in even being alive, who continue to live only because society today so values human life, even worthless ones, that they'll expend their own resources and effort to keep these people who contribute nothing in any way alive: They're totally dependent on society for their survival: They have no abilities or interests of any kind. Clearly, as these people are not included in the ranks of gamers, or, indeed, any other group, by default, "gamers" must be better than the average.Just remember also, most of the world's population is of below average intelligence. There's no upper limit on how intelligent someone can be, but there *IS* a lower limit, beyond which assessment of ANY kind of intellect is impossible because the person is, quite plainly, retarded or brain-dead. If you use IQ as your measuring stick, the mean maybe 100, but the median will be somewhat lower. It's like taking the average income of a college classroom plus Bill Gates: The resulting average is by no means an accurate view of the distribution.</blockquote>

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