Re: No Genius Left Behind

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>The IQ-160's are the folks who are going to make the Nobel Prize
>winning breakthroughs that seriously improve society: Cure cancer,
>make fusion power work, stop the OzoneHole and GlobalWarming,
>save species extinction, reclaim toxic waste, improve crop yields,
>to name a few.  

The Nobel Prize is irrelevant except as an ego-boosting piece of
nonsense. Science is advanced one step at a time, not by geniuses but
by workers. Tortoises, not hares, and lots of them. 

>That's why it is so important that No_Geniuses are overlooked in 
>the *Insane_Quest* spending Billion$$$ to see that every IQ-75 
>Retarded Gork LOOZer makes some minimum score on the latest 
>standardized test, between gruntz and twitchez...(NCLB).

IQ is irrelevant, so are geniuses. Money well spent is money spent on
quantity: get lots of people above the minimum litmus, and the
advances will keep coming. 

Because innovation doesn't come through intelligence, it comes by
chance. Luck. The more people we put in it, the higher the probability
of bumping into the next breakthrough. 


Alberto.