Just a note to say that belief in the Moon landings has nothing at all to do with intelligence.
A friend who's in Mensa sent me a link about something NASA was doing. I replied with, "It's hard to get excited about space when who knows if what they're doing is real." I included a copy of Dave McGowan's "Wagging the Moondoggie".
His reply began with, "I'm not going to read a word of that drivel...." How could he possibly know it was drivel if he'd never read a word of it? A grave and fundamental error in thinking. You see, he already "knew" the Moon landings were real, so what evidence could there possibly be that they weren't?
And this is coming from someone proven to be in the top 2% for intelligence.
Just a note to say that belief in the Moon landings has nothing at all to do with intelligence.
A friend who's in Mensa sent me a link about something NASA was doing. I replied with, "It's hard to get excited about space when who knows if what they're doing is real." I included a copy of Dave McGowan's "Wagging the Moondoggie".
His reply began with, "I'm not going to read a word of that drivel...." How could he possibly know it was drivel if he'd never read a word of it? A grave and fundamental error in thinking. You see, he already "knew" the Moon landings were real, so what evidence could there possibly be that they weren't?
And this is coming from someone proven to be in the top 2% for intelligence.
So true. Highly intelligent people can be VERY susceptible to social pressure
I'm less and less certain that there are 'highly intelligent people', outside of autistic pursuits with well defined rules (chess, programming etc).