Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: re: re: Discussion about Mensa (flame) Message-ID: <156@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 13:49:36 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.156 Posted: Thu Dec 6 13:49:36 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 06:22:10 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 41 [Is this line _really_ necessary?] >Discussion of Mensa the furniture or Mensa the high I.Q. furniture would >be one and the same. Am I missing something here or is this really meaningless? >The I.Q. test was originally developed in >England to "Prove" that the upper class were "Inherently" smarter >than the rest of the population and therefore deserved schooling. The IQ test was originally developed in France by Binet at the request of the French government. They wanted a method to sort out children as bright, average, and dull so they could establish a tracking system in their schools. (I make no comment on the pros/cons of this policy.) Binet's test was later refined and re-normed by Terman of Stanford University and became the Stanford-Binet, possibly the best known IQ test in the world. >All you need to have a high I.Q. is to practice writing I.Q. tests. Sorry, not true. This may enable you to perform at your best when taking a test and teach you good test-taking technique, but it won't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. You can maximize your score this way, but if your best is 130 it won't get you a 160. >If this doesn't provoke comment, nothing will. > Larry Fast ( University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario ) >"These opinions are mine ( but I'd never admit it publicly )! -- The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Opinions expressed here are my own Transaction Technology, Inc. and unrelated to anyone else's. 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 United States (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 ...{garfield,lasspvax,linus,cmcl2,seismo}!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe