Well, I've seen all sorts of studies about this subject matter, but if you're talking in terms of personal anecdotes, its worth remembering that personal anecdotes are always dangerous to use as evidence - while they can suggest something to you, you always have to be suspicious of using personal experience as evidence, as you may be biased, consciously or unconsciously, and in any event your personal experiences are often not very representative.

In my case, however, I would argue that my hometown is an example of this. I am from Corvallis, Oregon, a town with a higher percentage of PhDs than people who attend church on a weekly basis. Notably, this actually is two marks of extremely high intelligence - not only do people who have PhDs have above-average intelligence, but irreligious people tend to be more intelligent than religious ones. There are a number of other metrics in my hometown which also marked adults as generally being more intelligent than elsewhere, and it shows in the children. We had 60 students taking a large number of AP tests my year - two full classes for virtually every AP class that wasn't something offbeat like language, and probably about a full class worth of AP language students between the languages offered at my high school. High academic achievement was seen as a mark of honor, and people were actually judged by their academic achievements and intelligence - people looked up to the people who were in more high-level classes, the people in those classes were the most popular kids, ect. I was actually fairly popular in a weird sort of way in high school, though not in the sense that most people would think of it.

If you looked at the parents of those kids, though, they weren't normal people, much like the parents of the kids at Fox Hollow French Immersion School (a public charter elementary school) were not normal people - they were high achievers who tended to make a fair bit of money, and the few who didn't weren't stupid, they were weird hippies.

In my own case, both of my parents are quite intelligent people, but I think I pretty much hit the genetic jackpot - I got very fortunate myself. My brother is also quite intelligent.

If the intention is to get back together, then the terms of the relationship have not changed in terms of exclusivity - so if the relationship was not an open one (and very few are), then yes, I would say it would be cheating. I would imagine it would generally hurt the other person involved, and greatly increase the likelihood of the break becoming a break up.

That being said, everyone's relationship has its own rules. If two people decided that taking a break meant they could sleep around, so be it, but honestly I'd be a bit skeptical of them getting back together and having a healthy monogamous relationship.

Milky Way or Snickers, I suppose.

Inception. If you're looking for a more recent movie, The Muppets.

Not getting angry about petty things like differences in taste.

I use Google News, Wikipedia, and Ars Technica to keep up on the news primarily, as well as listen to NPR (National Public Radio) and occaisionally watch OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting). I only watch televised news if I want to watch a debate or similar.

Regarding books, the Selfish Gene is a great nonfiction book, as is The Ancestor's Tale, both by Richard Dawkins. Fiction-wise, I enjoy a Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin (a fantasy series; the first two books were recently made into a television series by HBO), and the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is another enjoyable series, though I forget who wrote those books.

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I don't really know anything about him other than that he's a rapper.

In the immortal words of your mother: "I'm pretty sure you'll never try to lay a dog, since you will just run in the opposite direction like you always do"

You will never live that down. Sorry.

But you amuse me.

I don't think of myself as either, really. I'm somewhere in the middle. There is one person I am very generous towards, admittedly, though sadly they don't like me spending money on them.

Funny how that works, eh?

Not specifically, though I still have my three goals.

No one has a cleft in his chin like Gaston!

Though Maleficant has the best character design of any Disney villain, and Frollo has excellent characterization. And of course Jafar is ridiculously evil, and unlike every other Disney villain ever somehow managed to survive his movie... only to die in the sequel.

Build That Wall, from Bastion.

Biomedical engineering.

I have never seen it, but I suspect the reason ponies took off is because little boys want ponies too, and now they can have them.

No, I'm happy for myself.

I would make them believe that I am an excellent investment opportunity because hey, it would let me start my own business. Bit selfish I know, but on the upside at least I am.

Accept No Substitute

Video games, because they are interactive.

If you don't count video games as art, then it would likely be either comics or music; both are easily consumed, though music is much more modular and is easy to do while doing other things while comics require some attention, but are great to read while skyping or simply while chatting via text, as you can read them at your own pace. The ease of consumption makes a big difference, I think.

I don't know if I really have a good answer for that question; maybe once I've played all the champions I will have a better idea.