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Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?

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Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
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RE: Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
July 4, 2018 at 9:33 pm
(July 4, 2018 at 9:16 pm)Alexmahone Wrote:
(July 4, 2018 at 8:55 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Did you just admit to trolling?

What can I say? A good percentage of my threads are over 8 pages long.

Well, the new forum record is 500 pages in case you hadn’t heard.  Better get going!
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RE: Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
July 4, 2018 at 9:38 pm
(July 4, 2018 at 9:33 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(July 4, 2018 at 9:16 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: What can I say? A good percentage of my threads are over 8 pages long.

Well, the new forum record is 500 pages in case you hadn’t heard.  Better get going!

Yes.

CDF has been suspiciously quiet...
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RE: Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
July 4, 2018 at 10:55 pm
(July 4, 2018 at 9:38 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(July 4, 2018 at 9:33 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Well, the new forum record is 500 pages in case you hadn’t heard.  Better get going!

Yes.

CDF has been suspiciously quiet...

Bah!  You said his name!  Two more times and he’ll reappear and start a new thread!
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RE: Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
July 4, 2018 at 11:07 pm
(July 4, 2018 at 3:29 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: I have another one:

Suppose you're captured by a bunch of psychopaths who're going to scan your brain to determine your IQ and kill you if your IQ exceeds 120. In this case, it would be preferable to have a low IQ.

You need to be smart enough to stick an ice pick thru your supraorbital foramen. Ya know, just in case.
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RE: Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
July 4, 2018 at 11:41 pm
Being one of R. J. Anderson’s patients.
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RE: Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
July 5, 2018 at 12:57 am
Ask inane question, refuse any new input, keep posting the same ole thing over and over, rinse and repeat.

Also this is not life sciences, there is no science involved in this shitty question.
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RE: Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
July 5, 2018 at 1:06 am
(July 4, 2018 at 3:04 pm)Alexmahone Wrote:
(July 4, 2018 at 2:59 pm)warmdecember Wrote: Ignorance is bliss. That's the way Christians are. I think they have a lower IQ in order to believe in all that bullshit. I prefer reality, good or bad.

So I guess having a high IQ in a religious society would make you an atheist and therefore more likely to be killed. Hence having a low IQ would be preferable.

Surely they would be intelligent enough to just pretend to be religious if they knew their life depended on it.


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RE: Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
July 5, 2018 at 5:49 am (This post was last modified: July 5, 2018 at 5:50 am by Little lunch.)
I can't think of an instance where it is better to have a low IQ rather than a high IQ.
But personally, I'd rather be friends with a person who has a good heart and a low IQ than a person who's a cunt with a high IQ.
I'd even go as far as to say that an arsehole with a high IQ is more responsible for their bad behaviour than an arsehole with a low IQ.




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RE: Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
July 5, 2018 at 10:22 am
(July 5, 2018 at 12:57 am)ohreally Wrote: Ask inane question, refuse any new input, keep posting the same ole thing over and over, rinse and repeat.

Also this is not life sciences, there is no science involved in this shitty question.

Oh really?
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RE: Are there situations where it is better to have a low IQ?
July 5, 2018 at 10:31 am
How the fighting going?
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