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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5175373" data-attributes="member: 15538">Some people are not intelligent enough to read well. Compared with &quot;people in general,&quot; which includes people who do not read, people who read for pleasure are significantly more intelligent. Intelligence is also associated with interest in things in general, so simply having an interest which requires thought, however minimal in intensity, tends to mean people who do that thing are more intelligent than average. It's like asking if people who play tennis are more physically fit than usual. Of course they are. Even though some people who play tennis are in rather poor shape, they are at least in shape enough to play tennis. People who think gamers are dumb do not spend enough time in on-level high school classes, eavesdropping on conversations at the DMV, or listening to &quot;man on the street&quot; interviews about major political issues. The vast majority of gamers know the difference between Austria and Australia; there is a significant slice of the US population that doesn't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 5175373, member: 15538"] Some people are not intelligent enough to read well. Compared with "people in general," which includes people who do not read, people who read for pleasure are significantly more intelligent. Intelligence is also associated with interest in things in general, so simply having an interest which requires thought, however minimal in intensity, tends to mean people who do that thing are more intelligent than average. It's like asking if people who play tennis are more physically fit than usual. Of course they are. Even though some people who play tennis are in rather poor shape, they are at least in shape enough to play tennis. People who think gamers are dumb do not spend enough time in on-level high school classes, eavesdropping on conversations at the DMV, or listening to "man on the street" interviews about major political issues. The vast majority of gamers know the difference between Austria and Australia; there is a significant slice of the US population that doesn't. [/QUOTE]

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