The Alien Dilemma

 I was reading  through social media yesterday, and this odd comment came up. 

The construct? Well....one eventually has to assign a IQ level to aliens, and the idea came up....what if their average level is 500 (most Earth engineers can claim 120 on IQ level....and the general average is 100).

So conversation between an average guy (100) and a alien (500)....isn't going to go  far.

You can imagine a conversation between a dimwit (say in the 50 to 70 range) and a engineer (120) happening today.  They might be able to discuss NFL football for 2 minutes, or perhaps discuss snowstorms for a couple of minutes.  But it will be awful short.

I would imagine the aliens don't see much reason to waste talking or conversing....unless you found an awful marginal dimwitted alien, who was in the 150-to-200 level of IQ status.  So if you were dragged into some 'ship' and 'Marvin-the-alien' starts talking you  in a makes-sense sorta way.....you might want to assume he's not brightest guy on the staff.