Are writers smarter than other people?

[nq:1]One time a woman with a masters degree asked me to read her document, and it looked like something a ... up with educated people who can't write? Does it take some special kind of intelligence to string words together correctly?[/nq]
I dunno about intelligence, but it definitely takes effort and practice, and those are things in increasingly short supply.

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[nq:1]One time a woman with a masters degree asked me to read her document, and it looked like something a ... with educated people who can't write? Does it take some special kind of intelligence to string words together correctly? Lois[/nq]
Most readers are smarter than most non readers. And hopefully most writers are readers. Of course there are examples of all kinds of supersmart and superd

[nq:1]One time a woman with a masters degree asked me to read her document, and it looked like something a ... with educated people who can't write? Does it take some special kind of intelligence to string words together correctly? Lois[/nq]
Unfortunately, I've read the work of lots of people with Masters Degrees who don't know how to write.
Okay they know how to "write" as you indicated a

[nq:1]One time a woman with a masters degree asked me to read her document, and it looked like something a ... with educated people who can't write? Does it take some special kind of intelligence to string words together correctly? Lois[/nq]
The average reading level of Americans when I was writing for young adults was 5th grade. That was 10 years ago.
I don't think it's gotten much better

[nq:1]One time a woman with a masters degree asked me to read her document, and it looked like something a ... up with educated people who can't write? Does it take some special kind of intelligence to string words together correctly?[/nq]
To write tolerable poetry requires insight.
To write tolerable prose takes practice.
To write a tolerable Master's thesis only requires money.

Yes.
Well, within certain limits. A lady named *** did a comparitive study of IQs back in the 1920s that is still used today, but my guess is that some things have changed in this country due to the "dumbing down" of America.
Anyway, according to Catharine ***, the adult IQ score ranking goes philosophers 180 IQ, scientists 175, non-fiction writers 170, religious leaders 165, fiction write

[nq:2]The average reading level of Americans when I was writing ... 10 years ago. I don't think it's gotten much better.[/nq]
[nq:1]Saves your having to go back to school, then... Blair[/nq]
You should keep track of those little nasty slams. They bounce off me, just like all the comments from bitter anarchists such as yourself bounce off. But guess where they go? Right onto what you have l

[nq:1]One time a woman with a masters degree asked me to read her document, and it looked like something a ... up with educated people who can't write? Does it take some special kind of intelligence to string words together correctly?[/nq]
Intelligence is organization, and writers that is to say "actual" writers, the ones who finish projects, polish them and market them, or who make a living w

[nq:2]One time a woman with a masters degree asked me ... some special kind of intelligence to string words together correctly?[/nq]
[nq:1]Intelligence is organization, and writers that is to say "actual" writers, the ones who finish projects, polish them and ... was, like many others', an eye-opening experience in how little you have to know to get into a decent University.[/nq]
I've taug

[nq:1]I've taught at universities in real life and my course is available in 1100+ online. At one school I was ... not be "smarter" with good writers but clever in knowing what is effective with the end recipient of the words.[/nq]
I really meant something with the analogy to perfect pitch: perfect pitch isn't something you can have "in theory", because it's only measurable as a performance. S