>I was, frankly, pretty insulted that this sort of >thing was portrayed as > proving anything about "who the smartest" anyone >is. I mean, plenty of > people have noted that there isn't really a >correlation between GPA and > PPG...some people > manage to keep their GPA's pretty high and be >good quizbowlers, but > definitely not a tremendously huge proportion. Just because I like to be argumentative :) I didn't watch the show and had no desire to. And agreed that the show probably had little or anything to do with smarts--nevertheless, I'm not sure that you'll find as large a range of IQ (or John Hopkins Perceptual test or whatever format you pick) scores among QB'ers as you're suggesting. I've got a feeling that everyone (and I mean that literally) in the game is on the plus side of 100. Think again how stupid the average person really is, remember that most people in college are above average, compare QB'ers with average college students (not in social skills! :)) and I think you'll catch my drift. As for GPA, there's never been that much of a correlation between GPA and intelligence (granting that someone's at least a little bit above average who has a high GPA), especially at the high school level; there are quite a few studies that demonstrate high intelligence often translates into relatively mediocre academic performance. Of the 2 most intelligent people I've ever known: one has a high GPA and all of that, one flunked out of college with a 1.2 GPA (nevertheless he's pulling down 7 figures now). What I will assert is that QB does require a modicum of reasoning skills and a pretty good memory--things that translate into QB'ers generally being rather smart. >And many of the smartest > people I know (and I'm assuming many of you guys >know people like > this too) pretty much suck at this. People who >are able to reason things > out, people who have great critical thinking >skills...it doesn't necessarily > mean that they'll be good at qb. I'd be >interested to see an IQ spread > among qbers...I'd venture that it'd be >surprisingly large. > Bottom line: intelligence just doesn't mean that >you know how to spell > "kaleidoscope". It doesn't. Well, there are plenty of intelligent people who can't spell "kaleidescope", nevertheless, I doubt that there are very many dumb people who can. Nathan Freeburg
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