Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: XSO IQ (Really teachers...) Message-ID: <1560119@acf4.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 05:35:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1560119 Posted: Thu Jul 4 05:35:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:03:41 EDT References: <281@mss.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 19 >/* hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) / 4:40 pm Jul 2, 1985 */ >What about quiz show contestants and Trivial Persuit players? It seems to me that showing off more tolerable from quiz show contestants because they are entertainers in a sense and they are making money. >Apparently showing off is acceptable in a context where it's expected. Personally, I find showing off most distasteful in the context of personal relationships, i.e., friendships. Perhaps I expect it least there. Incidentally, upon thinking about it, I came to the realization that you might be right about there being a double standard in our society regarding intellectual vs. athletic showing off, and I suspect that at least part of the reason for this doub;le standard is the anti-intellectual strain in American popular culture that you brought up. Mike Sykora