I have to admit this remark doesn't quite compute (e.g. people who "have more IQ" can adapt their POVs more easily, etc. etc.) and the Roman calculation example

I have to admit this remark doesn't quite compute (e.g. people who "have more IQ" can adapt their POVs more easily, etc. etc.) and the Roman calculation example, i.e. "It was based on a few things from the past like how smart you had to be in Roman times to multiply two numbers together; only geniuses did it. " is baloney. There were three method of calculation in the Roman times (e.g. see http://books.google.com/books?id=bfgRxVzjbMYC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=history+of+mathematics+roman+multiplication&source=bl&ots=nS6TwS_ijS&sig=hJ9Qr6BNpgP92AvcR4xF1I8Xkxs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HnACT5aiO8OQgwfShdGSCQ&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=bfgRxVzjbMYC&pg=PA79&#3.... Multiplication (or division) was handled by a combination of table look up, which is also a common technique in Babylonian and Egyptian math, and using the abacus to handle resulting summations. It was no walk in the park, obviously, but you didn't need to be a genius either. Incidentally the word calculate stems from the small pebbles, called calculi, used in an abacus (see here for a fascinating discussion on Roman calculating boards and abaci: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57572.html http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57572.html).