Stanford-Binet and Wechsler have been playing around with measuring IQ for a while, and it seems to be an inexact science, at best.

Part, I think, of this inexactness is the difference in the way people process information, and the way their brains are wired.

I know a lot of people who are great at math but utterly incapable of stringing ten words together coherently. A hundred people who can write thousands of lines of faultless C++ code, and can’t figure out how to get the hood of their car open, let alone check the oil. I know someone who is a master carpenter who does carpentry at a cabinetmaking level, joinery so beautiful that it’s almost a shame to cover it with drywall, and yet cannot balance a checkbook.

I think the reason IQ testing seems so haphazard (I know people who have been tested in the 130-170 range, often repeating the same tests) is that it tries to be too general. I am not an expert on this subject by any means, but I am a longtime observer of the human condition.

I have a customer who employs a large number of mentally handicapped people. They do assembly of their products. They do incredible work, but they require monitoring by a leader. Remarkably, they are capable of a level of organization personally that a lot of adults can’t master.

It isn’t a mystery to me, or anyone with a brain, that different people are better or worse at different things, and come to their differing levels of development at different times.

When all my schoolmates were watching baseball on TV or listening to games on transistor radios, and playing games of baseball and basketball and soccer, I was absorbed in Twain, in Wells, in Homer and Capstick. I had zero interest in sports,a nd still have almost none- but last summer, watching my daughter play softball, it awakened that tiny spark, and i began to be interested for the first time. I won’t ever play myself, but I have, for the first time, an interest in watching someone play a game.

I think the areas of people’s interests help determine what they readily absorb and what they have difficulties with. This isn’t much of a stretch, actually. The money bit, that I’m trying to get to, is the idea that there’s a level of maturity that you must arrive at, to be able to be less than functionally illiterate on the subject.

The old formula for IQ is

IQ=100(MA/CA) where MA = mental age and CA = chronological age.

If you measure this as an average of all the persons abilities, it can probably give you a good general idea of what that person is like, intellectually. But it doesn’t give the complete picture, of course.

This is why I think that some people never get beyond the “put the key in and drive” area of car owership, or the “move in and live there” area of home ownership, because the level of maturity they have disallows them to move beyond that level. it doesn’t make them bad people, but it means they will raise (for the most part) children as bad, in that respect, or worse, than them.

This is why I keep calling Tom a moron. He’s apparently quite bright in many areas, but his emotional/intellectual development in the political arena is the same as what is legally termed a moron, someone with an IQ around 60. He bases all his political decisions on feelings, and while the reality is, there are few people in the country less qualified to govern than Brak, he defends his choice, falling instantly to ad hominem rather than even attempting to use any logic (which of course is unavailable to him, Logic demands that Brak not be elected)

This is due to a handful of things that I think are worthy of note:

The US educational system is liberal owned and operated. Public schools are liberal indoctrination camps, and have been for some time. They have done such an excellent job of indoctrinating people, that a: they have no idea they have been indoctrinated, and b: have had the ability to examine their situation and see the indoctrination completely trained out of them.

The media is strongly left biased, as anyone who can look at it objectively knows, but this bias acts predominatly as a positive reinforcement for the indoctrination received in the school system.

The parochial school system (most common in flyover country) is devoid of the predominant indoctrination, and acts as a threat to the indoctrination, so they are attacked on as many fronts as possible, to attempt to shut them down- they threaten the socialist ricebowl.

The vote in the November election went 52% Obama, 48% McCain. (approximately)

This is an impressive number, because it means something very important: It took all the power of the entire media complex, and the entire socialist indoctrination system to get a tiny bit over half of the voters in this country to vote for someone based on “feelings”. it means that damned near half of the country is in their right minds. More, frankly, than I figured.

The downside, is that we are shackling our children to a debt that Owebama is getting ready to create (he and his advisors created the perfect storm for it to happen) a pile of debt so large that our grandchildren’s grandchildren will barely begin to pay the interest, and this is precisely what the indoctrination camps and the media desire. The more dependant you are on the government, the more power the government holds.

America needs less government, not more. We need less debt, not more. We need to prep ourselves, those of us who are emotionally, politically adults in mental development, to clean up the mess that Owebama is making, because it’s going to be a cluster.

brak is the epitome of empty suit. Having followed his career for ages, I know full well that he cannot open his mouth to speak unless Dick Daley moves his hand, and this is a disaster of epic proportions in the making.

All because people are morons.