Or, to put it in this particular context: I don’t go around saying things like that. This is a discussion about relationships and attraction, and the things I say here are (or so I perceive them to be) very relevant to the subject at hand. You’ve seen me once say something like that, in a place where saying things like that is both appropriate and productive, and you deduce that I always go around saying things like that to random people I’ve just met before I even know them? I’d be very afraid if I were a suspect in a murder investigation led by you.
You also seem to have misinterpreted just what it is that “that” was saying. To put it in other words that might be less prone to “pompous elitist” pattern-matching, I’m basically saying that there’s a statistical guarantee that I’d be very interested in maintaining an intellectual discourse (and hopefully long-term relationship of some kind, even as acquaintances) with, given enough time to talk with and get to know them, at least one out of every fifty people out there. Even more than that in practice, since there will be many people who are interesting despite not being Mensa material. That sentence just puts a lower boundary on the amount of people I could find very interesting.
I apologize. Even if my comment had had a small probability of being helpful, I should have stated it differently, and I did jump to more conclusions than was warranted.
I didn’t mean to imply a misinterpretation, though. If you did go around saying things like that, the pattern-matching would be the whole problem. If you actually believed something to the effect of “people with IQ less than X are not worth knowing”, that might also be an obstacle, but at a later stage of relationship-forming. In any case, that appears to be irrelevant.
Maybe I should refer you to this other comment I made on this topic.
Or, to put it in this particular context: I don’t go around saying things like that. This is a discussion about relationships and attraction, and the things I say here are (or so I perceive them to be) very relevant to the subject at hand. You’ve seen me once say something like that, in a place where saying things like that is both appropriate and productive, and you deduce that I always go around saying things like that to random people I’ve just met before I even know them? I’d be very afraid if I were a suspect in a murder investigation led by you.
You also seem to have misinterpreted just what it is that “that” was saying. To put it in other words that might be less prone to “pompous elitist” pattern-matching, I’m basically saying that there’s a statistical guarantee that I’d be very interested in maintaining an intellectual discourse (and hopefully long-term relationship of some kind, even as acquaintances) with, given enough time to talk with and get to know them, at least one out of every fifty people out there. Even more than that in practice, since there will be many people who are interesting despite not being Mensa material. That sentence just puts a lower boundary on the amount of people I could find very interesting.
I apologize. Even if my comment had had a small probability of being helpful, I should have stated it differently, and I did jump to more conclusions than was warranted.
I didn’t mean to imply a misinterpretation, though. If you did go around saying things like that, the pattern-matching would be the whole problem. If you actually believed something to the effect of “people with IQ less than X are not worth knowing”, that might also be an obstacle, but at a later stage of relationship-forming. In any case, that appears to be irrelevant.
You meant to say “despite not being”?
Yes, thanks for catching that. Fixed.