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Re:American Trailer Parks: The owners are getting rich by lectrick on Saturday May 23, 2015 @11:15PM (#9595194)
The fallacies here are multiple:

1) the assumption that intelligence can actually be measured (in which case it's really just "analytical intelligence"), 2) the assumption that other types of intelligence are less important, 3) the fact that you can't even measure creativity, period.

I have a 148 IQ (and I'm a programmer- of COURSE I have high analytical intelligence) and I have been consistently humbled by the "less intelligent."

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Re:American Trailer Parks: The owners are getting rich by nationcrafting on Sunday May 24, 2015 @06:39PM (#9597896)
Simple.

You don't need to measure anything like intelligence or creativity to arrive at someone's market worth. Just measure, or estimate, the value of their output.

So: how much value are they creating that other humans are prepared to pay for?

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