>> I love the way everybody else isn't even trying properly and yet they
>> manage to get much higher scores than me.
>>
>> I guess I have to just rationalise it as "Hey, it's an internet IQ test.
>> It doesn't actually *work* or anything..."
> 
> Eh.. looks like my score is about average for this group. Andrew, you're 
> well above average (in terms of most humans) you have nothing to worry 
> about.

Heh, if only.

Don't go thinking that just because somebody's a nerd, they're 
necessarily intelligent. I've met at least one person who had a 
fascination with cryptography, and yet was utterly unable to comprehend 
even basic facts about it. (E.g., why a polyalphabetic cipher is 
stronger than a monoalphabetic cipher.)

> For some reason, this forum tends to attract supergeniuses. I really 
> wouldn't worry about what your IQ is compared to others here. It's 
> tantamount to some sort of ...brain envy.

Well, so long as it's not brain evy that's fine.

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