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Originally Posted by aschen

A bad grade in penmanship is a badge of honor I think! Seems ridiculous in the modern era


My handwriting is bad enough, that when I ran into my 6th grade science teacher, whom I hadn't seen in 35 years his first comment was "omg I remember you, please tell me your handwriting has improved, worst I saw in all my years teaching".


I think this stuff is all linked to some minor form or learning disability. We probably all have a little bit of something. We just adapt and move on

I've never been bothered by having bad penmanship. I think that is in many ways down to how you were taught. I understand that there are ways to right in cursive. I think all/most of my movement was in my fingers, but I think it's supposed to be in your arm, movement from the elbow or something like that. It's funny, they graded you and wanted you to improve, but there was no training of any sort. I guess they figured you got that earlier (which I don't think I did).

It's the other IQ thread where there was a video posted about what IQ does and does not do. Per the video folks that score higher do tend to score higher overall, but there is variation (eg, maybe better at math and worse at vocabulary, etc...).

I also do think that there are folks that have intrinsic abilities/talents for specific sorts of mental tasks that may not correlate to overall above average abilities. Music, Art, poetry, writing, science, math, etc..., someone could have a natural "talent" in one or more of those areas but be average or even below average in others. I think one of the points made in the IQ video in the other thread was that the "s" factor across the various groups would likely average out to an average g factor.