I don’t know much about the movie, but the discussion did remind me of this old column of mine , which I’ve always liked. The intro:

et’s cut to the chase. The most persistent prejudice in our society is the one which holds back the stupid and lazy. Oh, sure — more than a few make it over the so-called “merit barrier” because their parents have money or because they happened to room with the right guy in college. A few morally entrepreneurial women have provided, ahem, “non-traditional services” in exchange for low expectations in the workplace. And, yes, some jocks can coast on their college glory days thanks to a sports-junkie boss who wants a conversation-piece employee. But, let’s face it, these are statistically trivial occurrences. One need only look at the ranks of heart surgeons, bomb-squad technicians, and nuclear physicists to recognize that the stupid and lazy are wildly underrepresented and discriminated against at the top levels of our society.

And my favorite part:

But even more encouraging was the College Board’s decision to eliminate the infamous analogy questions from the SAT. These questions were insuperable barriers for the stupid and lazy who wanted to go to college but didn’t have the connections or the money to get into Brown University. For example: “Fire is to burns as: A) Lead paint chips are to tasty. B) Frozen metal flagpoles are to tasty. C) Cleaning products under the sink are to tasty. D) Water is to cools. E) None of the above.” How could we ever have expected a stupid person to answer that?