From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!wat_jokes Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: tary Article-I.D.: watmath.2762 Posted: Sun Jun 20 22:51:00 1982 Received: Tue Jun 22 02:50:03 1982 As many of you know, canadians are going metric. This is coming gradually to all areas. The latest one is in psychology, where now intelligence is no longer measured by IQ or other obsolete measures. The new measure is the "tary" and has nice properties. The average intelligence of a human being is 1 tary. Some super-genius may have deca-tarys, but this will be unusual. On the other hand, deci-tarys are useful to measure intelligence in animals and centi-tarys are for the flora kingdom. And, as usual with the metric system, a nice coincidence: the milli-tary.