09-12-2002, 06:29 PM
Dent...you read my mind
Seriously guys, spend some time at an engineering school and you'll see what he means. They are full of people who can't change their oil, can't start or hold a conversation with someone they've never met before, can't wash their own laundry, etc. There's an inverse relationship between IQ and ability to be social normal person (with some exceptions of course). I think a big part of it might be that people who are really smart didn't do much as a kid other than their smart stuff, like reading, computer crap, chess. A big part of growing up is climbing trees, sports, shoplifting gum from the 7-11, interacting with real people. Parents of kids who are really intelligent sometimes don't push their kids to develop socially, they only focus on school stuff
I never understood what people meant by "street smarts". I can hold my own in a fight, I know when not to piss people off...is that street smarts? Or are "street smarts" just something somebody who wasn't too intelligent came up with to make themselves feel better.
Seriously guys, spend some time at an engineering school and you'll see what he means. They are full of people who can't change their oil, can't start or hold a conversation with someone they've never met before, can't wash their own laundry, etc. There's an inverse relationship between IQ and ability to be social normal person (with some exceptions of course). I think a big part of it might be that people who are really smart didn't do much as a kid other than their smart stuff, like reading, computer crap, chess. A big part of growing up is climbing trees, sports, shoplifting gum from the 7-11, interacting with real people. Parents of kids who are really intelligent sometimes don't push their kids to develop socially, they only focus on school stuff
I never understood what people meant by "street smarts". I can hold my own in a fight, I know when not to piss people off...is that street smarts? Or are "street smarts" just something somebody who wasn't too intelligent came up with to make themselves feel better.
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Your pocket Bible will stop an assailant's bullet, but not before it passes through four innocent bystanders, a school-bus gas tank, and your genitals.