Raising IQs
* Re “Scientists Create Smarter Mice by Adding Gene,” Sept. 2:
As a high-IQ, perfect-SAT, National Merit scholar, wife of a chess master and mother of two “highly gifted” teenage sons, I can tell you precisely what you will get with a population of super-IQ humans.
You will get people who are much too interested in the movements of stars or chess pieces, or the relationships between prehistoric creatures or of prime numbers, to take any interest in money, politics, business, conquest, or any of the usual human concerns.
Will this be a good thing or a bad thing? I can’t tell you because I’m too busy working at my latest attempt at Mandarin poetry.
SHARON RUDAHL
Los Angeles
