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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: re: re: Discussion about Mensa (flame)
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Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 13:49:36 EST
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>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 )!


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