Re: FWD [forteana] Re: I. Q. Tests

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 23:29:01 MDT


>From: "Terry W. Colvin" <fortean1@mindspring.com>

> There was a boy in my grade school class (48 kids) who was
>generally regarded as mentally retarded. With radically the lowest
>I. Q. in the class (and probably the school), he never "passed" from
>one grade to the next, but was merely "transferred." There was no
>good evidence that he ever learned to read or write. All his test and
>quiz papers (I was row monitor) were long series of Xs.
> We all wondered what was to eventually become of him.
>
> A quarter-century later his construction company built a major
>hospital. I quite accidentally stumbled into the completion party at
>a local restaurant. He bought me food.
>
> I never paid the slightest attention to I. Q.s again, although
>I'd formerly burned incense at the shrine.
>
> George Wagner

Having taken the California bar exam, it seems to me that the main thing it
measures is your ability to take the exam. I have the same feeling about IQ
tests.

-Zero

"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)

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