Which do you think is a surer sign of low intelligence and/or low information?

[paulpablo]

I think there's a tendency of people to confuse intelligence with moral decision making and whether or not someone agrees with you on topics.

I once knew someone in school who was so tribal minded, he once threw a led weight at his own foot by accident, slammed his own hand in a car door, got his leg trapped in a fence and had to have it removed by firemen on his first day in school.  He was pretty bad socially.  Definitely a person who would be considered racist by anyone on this forum at least.  And this was the most intelligent male in my year at school, that's according to the maths, english and science test results and we did some sort of IQ test that confirmed him as top of the year at least in the males, I think he could have been beaten by a girl but I can't remember.

I've known too many people like this.  Where you can look at their actions or some of their choices and think this person must be at least nearly retarded, and it turns out their skills or application of knowledge just aren't obvious and apparent to a casual observer.  

But if statistics show that a certain group has lower intelligence then I'm in no position to argue against that, but if that's the case you don't really need an opinion poll you can just go off the statistics and people can make their own mind up as to how reliable they are.

Even in the case of statistics, if the statistics are measuring a huge group of people it would still require caution to judge any individual from that group based on the statistics.  All you can really do is point out that the trend is there.