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    Below is the wiki re: stupidity. A subject that it just might pay to study, such as in the case of chess playing. People often get extremely angry, frustrated etc. at what they see as clear instances of stupidity, yet with 50% of the population with an IQ below 100, I wonder if humanity ought to be much kinder to itself in this regard, alone (even the Bible strongly distinguishes between the ways of the wise and the foolish, yet it also teaches us to love one another, perhaps in an almost unconditional sense). Also remember two old songs' lines, 'everybody's somebody's fool', and 'everybody plays the fool sometimes, there's no exception to the rule'...:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupidity

    Note that 68% of people fall between 85 and 115 IQ score, on a bell curve - Google.

    I'm aware of many instances of intelligent people who often aren't particularly wise, but fwiw I'm stumped to think of people with little intelligence who are often wise, the latter contrary to the way the old D&D fantasy role-playing game completely isolated 'intelligence' from 'wisdom' when initializing the attributes of a given 'character'.

    The following sub-wiki re: wisdom in fact notes at one point that wisdom and intelligence are thought to overlap, among other factors:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom...l_perspectives

    The wiki re: Savant syndrome - relates generally to memory skills, it's thought:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome
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    I've added some content to my previous post, for any unaware.
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    Fwiw, here's the wiki re: Genius:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius

    Edit: a wiki re: Brain fog:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clouding_of_consciousness

    Edit2: A wiktionary entry re: Brain lock:

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brainlock

    Edit3: A later thread that may be of interest:

    http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/sh...26-Wiki-re-IQs
    Last edited by Kevin Pacey; 12-13-2019 at 11:16 PM. Reason: Adding link
    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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