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Originally Posted by masraum
Technically, IQ is independent of education/knowledge so you could have someone with a very high IQ that was poorly educated and therefore may not exhibit correct spelling, grammar, syntax.
What you're talking about, IMO, is education level and personal focus/retention.
I work with a guy that's very smart. I have to think that he's got an above average IQ. He's a coder with a lot of knowledge. He likes to "learn something new every day" and reads books to learn new things all of the time. He's single handedly written an application that gathers information from thousands of devices, analyzes the data, and predicts failures based on trends in the data (among other things). I think he's probably got an above avg IQ. He often has typos in his emails. I am confident that he knows how to spell, but he doesn't go back and fix some errors.
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This is correct. Many people with mental disabilities are high IQ. Dyslexia is one that hampers a HIQ person. Then there are personality disorders. IDK that either has to do with spelling, but I have some dyslexia that plays hell with me if I write long hand (or in caps). I'm very (let's say just about every time) prone to starting any word that begins with "
PR" by writing the R down first. I've always done that.
I mean I can keep track of the there's and the other same sounding words along with I before E thing. But I can't write "price" correctly the first time w/o stopping to think.
When I was in high school I tested at 140. Who knows what that means 60+ years later. Ain't no 140 these days.