2023-04-16 18:45:33
IThe audience is full of talented people, behind the lectern is the mayor. He’s joking. He does not know his intelligence quotient (IQ) and deliberately did not take a test. You never know what will come out of it, jokes Frank Nopper. In any case, the mayor will be “not the smartest, but the slyest or, to put it more modernly: the most socially competent,” says the CDU politician. He hopes that the audience, despite his probably lower IQ, will agree with the greeting.
The jokes of the speechwriters seem to capture the humor of the gifted. All participants have an IQ of at least 130, making them among the smartest two percent in the country and are members of the Mensa association for gifted students, which had its annual meeting in Stuttgart until Sunday. More than 1000 gifted people came. There were events all over the city, lectures in the conference hotel, tours of the factories and research facilities of the corporations, Chinese courses, but also courses on how to cook Maultaschen, visits to sparkling wine cellars and breweries or a tour of the railway station construction site.
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