>People like linear status orderings. They exist in every culture and get reinvented when there's no culture present at all. You're right, I think I was just l

>People like linear status orderings. They exist in every culture and get reinvented when there's no culture present at all. You're right, I think I was just letting my cynicism towards the United states bleed through with that comment. >That's why we're prepared to believe things about IQ that we'd never believe about processor or compiler benchmarks. That's a brilliant parallel, but also a stunningly-accurate one.