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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]University professor here. It's not what most professors want. [b]The last thing we need is arrogant little pricks coming in thinking they are revolutionizing the world with an IQ of 120.[/b] This is just one example of very many, but I had set up a booth to recruit students for a study several years back. It was going just fine until a 20 year old came up to me and insisted he was a "direct marketing expert" who was "transforming businesses." He would not leave my booth and I lost a number of potential recruits in the thirty (!!) minutes he lectured me on what I was doing wrong with my advertisement and recruiting script. I came to learn he had taken TWO CLASSES in marketing to gain his "expertise." Like dude, you're a sophomore, not a business transformation expert. Leadership is a buzzword invented by administrators so that they can ignore SAT scores in favor of subjective and ever changing definitions of "personality" to broaden their admissions pool. The reality is that we get a lot of students who have been falsely indoctrinated by their parents, high schools, and others that they are leadership material, even though when they graduate they will probably be performing some menial task. It's not proven but I believe the inflation of young people's expectations that they will all be some kind of leader or world changer is contributing to depression in the late 20s/early 30s workforce[/quote]
wtf does this even mean?[/quote]

That was the best line.[/quote]
Truth. [/quote]
Love that bolded sentence!![/quote]

Except it points to the law of diminishing returns in IQ.

120 is called the sweet spot for IQ 135+ cdd as uses decline in ability to function in society.[/quote]

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