Mr. Ryan has asked a question and then cites research that has apparently settled the matter.
A recent literacy survey in Canada (commissioned by the Southam newspaper group) identified 19% of high school graduates and 8% of university graduates as functionally illiterate.
Therefore illiterates are 9 times as likely to graduate from high school as members of Mensa.
In the Business world, both among the newly hired and the established work force, one finds that success specifically selects the language proficiency of a child. Perhaps the questions that should be asked are: Why are those who learn to read well considered "gifted"? Why does majority opinion consider an IQ of 100 to be superior to any other possibility? Does it make sense to listen for an hour about something we can read about in ten minutes?

This item by George Noviss was included in MC2 (Mensa International Journal) April 1994

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