Now how about this little gem:
"In 19th and early 20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe intellectual disability. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard proposed a classification system for intellectual disability based on the Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbeciles had a mental age of three to seven years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.[8] The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30.[9][10] IQ, or intelligence quotient, was originally determined by dividing a person's mental age, as determined by standardized tests, by their actual age. The concept of mental age has fallen into disfavor, though, and IQ is now determined on the basis of statistical distributions.[11]
In current American medical classification, these people are now said to have "profound intellectual disability" but this term is not in use in the United Kingdom."
Which begs the question, are there still idiots in the UK while we have eliminated them entirely in the US? How about morons and imbeciles? Could this finally explain why they drive on the wrong, or 'left' side of the road?
Disclaimer: The above is all in good humor and not in any way meant to demean any individual or country. If I was going to demean an entire country, of course I would have published something about the French like the rest of humanity normally does.
Disclaimer #2: The immediately above is another stab at humor. I do not personally believe it is possible for any entire nationality, including the French, could be made up entirely of.... er..... "people of limited abilities". Certainly even in France there is an able, smart person.
Disclaimer #3: The immediately above was another stab at humor although I freely admit I have used the French exclusively. I have no excuse and cannot determine why this is the case. I will study it further and see what I can come up with.
Brian
