Re: No Genius Left Behind

"R. Steve Walz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > I should hope not. I've seen the early IQ tests. Five of the eight
> > sections required knowledge of numbers. (This was a century ago.)
> > 
> > Also, there's no way to test the creative part of the brain.
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> Garbage.

No way to objectively test it, Steve.

> > But
> > well...Niels Bohr would be fairly right-brained. At least compared to
> > Einstein. What about Erwin Schrodinger? Yet subatomic particles still
> > exist, and they still behave so unpredictably.
> > 
> > An interesting thing ignored by Yerkes's tests in the Army: Northern
> > blacks beat Southern whites.
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> Now why don't I doubt that??

But it's nice to throw makemyday's whole perspective out of whack.

Naturally, it was one of the few sections ignored entirely by the majority.

> > Perhaps better than 'generic intelligence' (i.e., a genius), we should
> > focus on specific parts of the brain.
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> Now if we only understood what they did.

I guess I meant we should focus on specialties.