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Originally Posted by Doku  A zombie is a re-animated corpse. A person, animal, etc. that is brought back from the dead. A zombie thread, therefore, is a thread that is considered to be dead that someone brings back to life. I would have explained that in the original post, but I didn't think that it would take much intelligence to figure out, even for someone who hasn't spent much time on the net.
But no, I was not asking why smart people do things that _I_ consider stupid. I was asking why people who claim to be smart will often do things that the general public considers taboo. |
If there is any relationship between raw intelligence and social cluefulness, it's probably an inverse one. So it wouldn't surprise me that people with high IQ might ignore hints that others have lost interest in a topic more often than persons of average IQ.
I think you are confusing claimed intelligence with things that it either has nothing to do with, or with which it is not directly connected.
But for reasons of ego, high IQ persons often make the same mistake because they like to make high IQ into something more than it actually is -- just one more distinguishing characteristic that can be both one's greatest strength AND one's greatest weakness.
--Bob