“That actually doesn’t follow from my logic at all. I explicitly predicated my comment on one taking seven years of full-time study to get through college. I don’t believe any of Rush, Gates, or Jobs even hung around for four.”
—If your argument is that someone is supposedly unintelligent because it took him or her seven years to graduate, then yes, it would logically follow that an individual who *couldn’t even finish* college would be less intelligent (or at least, as unintelligent). The individual who took seven years at least has a degree...the dropout doesn’t.
Btw, I know a lot of bright people (including some engineers) who went full-time, and changed majors a bunch of times and had to go back to the starting block, or ran into money woes (because their daddy wasn’t footing the bill for them...), etc., and it took a *long* time for them to finally graduate.
My argument is that someone is unintelligent because they fail half their classes if they’re going full-time for seven years.
Yes, some change majors — but so many times that they are around for 7 years? They’d have to change majors in senior year, and from engineering to acting or some such. And changing majors from engineering to acting DEFINITELY makes them stupid. :-)