IQ Scores: An Alternate View When the Emporer Ahuitzotl consecrated the temple of Huitzilopochtli shortly before 1490, at least 20,000 (some accounts say 80,000) prisoners of war were sacrificed. The Emperor and his near relatives, who were also high priests, took turns plunging the knife for as long as their strength lasted, then turned the duty over to lesser hierarchs. For four days the files of victims inched toward the curved stone, now surrounded by ponds of blood. Their bodies piled up in tumbled heaps, and their skulls overflowed the skull rack rising in front of the pyramids. For weeks thereafter the center of the city stank of rotting bodies and blood. The victim was thrown on his back over the upward-curving stone, and four priests with long hair matted with blood held him down by his arms and legs. A fifth priest plunged a knife of razor-sharp obsidian into the man’s taut chest, reached inside and pulled out the still-beating heart. [Time Life Books; Great Ages of Man; Ancient America, Chapter 3]

In the early days of the twentieth century humanity was unaware that intellectual mediocrity dominates most arenas of life and remains unaware to this very day. Honest objective measurements of literacy therefore conflict with reality as majority opinion understands it. One hundred years of secrecy and hypocrisy continue to this very day.
The notion that persons who learn to read well have been born mentally gifted or with high IQ scores is, of course, idiotic. However, secret reading scores everywhere, make it impossible to establish the contrary. The self-esteem of the high and mighty must be protected at all costs.
The cost, of course, is idiotic. Lacking standards, education becomes an exercise in literacy prevention. Children by the hundreds of millions waste decades of their lives focused on insignificant drivel and never do learn how to read.
Hiring committees replace the population of entire cities and even countries in the race to establish mediocrity as superior to all other possibilities.

First God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. (Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain 1835-1910)
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