Quote: "I believe that intelligence comes in many different forms: there are engineers, doctors, agriculturalists, welders, programmers, construction workers, secretaries, and so on an so forth."
Heh
I was raised in a small mining town where we hunted and grew our own food on a farm. I am an electrical engineer who spent years building missile guidance systems and quartz pressure systems for military jets and
MAVs when I worked for Honeywell. I moved from there to engineering lasers for a steel manufacturing company. Since a lot of the lasers were several tons and solid steel (And glass...) I had to weld constantly. I know several programming languages (My hobby), and I am now working for a major network broadcast company where I maintain all of the satellite news feeds for 27 states in the USA.
... I've never been a doctor or secretary, although I'm fairly decent at medical trivia.
I've taken every IQ test that I've had the opportunity to take and I generally score between 130 and 150. I can always tell which ones are lame and fake because I get close to 200, which may be proof that I was more intelligent than whomever thought up the questions, but I don't see that as a good comparative against all of humanity as these tests claim.
If I average the IQ results from the major IQ tests which were compiled by teams of people who specialized in appropriate fields, I have about 140 IQ.
As far as my learning aptitude having an effect on my life, I'd say that I tend to get bored more often than those around me. I never watch TV because it's shallow and repetitious. I tend to listen more than I speak because I often find that I have no reply to offer which wouldn't be obvious and drab.
I catch myself referring to people as Sheeple a lot, especially when they fall for political spin tactics or other attempts to control the general populous through basic mob influencing techniques.
