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Re:Ask HN: Why is the spelling poor on HN? by pastpartisan on Sunday December 29, 2013 @12:46PM (#6980406)
locally we can expect a positive correlation exists. don't see too many dull kids winning selling bees
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the spelling poor on HN? by frostmatthew on Sunday December 29, 2013 @02:28PM (#6980864)
> don't see too many dull kids winning selling bees

Assuming for the moment all people who win spelling bees have high IQs that doesn't mean all people with high IQs spell well. That's just inappropriate generalization[1] on your part.

I think you're also failing to consider people leaving comments on forums are often more concerned with the content getting their point across than making errors (e.g. you wrote selling bees instead of spelling bees).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_example

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