the average IQ in the U.S. is 98

[Major Hogwash]

174. I find that rather hard to believe.

Your score, that is.
It has to be above 170 or 175, at least.

Do you know how I know that?
Well, 2 years ago I volunteered to be a host for the now defunct Meta forum.
I wanted to see if there had been actual, honest discussion taking place in the hosts' forum to see if they were genuinely, and honestly discussing how to manage the new DU forum.

So, I went clear back to the very beginnings of the hosts' forum to read many of the threads made by other forum hosts, and what I found in the hosts' forum shocked me.
Not only was there honest, genuine discussion taking place between hosts, some of those discussions lasted several days, and created many pages of posts discussing a single topic.

But, the one thing that stood out to me the most, were your comments.
The comments that you made in that forum -- the one that was created for all of the forum hosts -- were comments that were made in private, or at least at some level of semi-privacy, and they were not able to be read by the entire membership of the DU forum.

And I only have 1 thing I want to say about that ---

Your comments were the most brilliant, passionate, thoughtful, clear, intelligent, logical comments I had ever read here at the DU forum.
And when straight-up logic wasn't appearing to work for you, you even employed all of the tools of rhetoric at your disposal to get other hosts to agree with your point of view, including appeals to the emotion, appeals to the majority, etc. etc.
You are a freakin' bona fide genius, young lady.

There is no doubt about that.
And a damned good writer.
Whoever told you that your IQ was only 143 was way the hell off.

Women like you, ones that are as passionate and as intelligent as you, should consider running for public office, at some level.
Because the world needs women like you to make the important decisions affecting other people's lives.
Maybe that doesn't fit in to your world right now, but at least think about it down the road sometime in the future.