"...On Mar 28, 8:09 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: ..."
> The ironic implication Gruff, was not that your work is art, but > reading it might make wasting time an art form. Nor did I mean to take it as such. Here and there on rare occasion I manage an artful phrase or thought but mostly my dribble is no more no less than most others. And if one must waste time, I suppose there are far more artful ways of doing so, which is an area I feel I have a small bit of artistic talent -- at least from others' points of view -- because I've been often told I need to quit wasting time and do something with my life. > IQ, after a point, is > a speed test or power test. I use them to get people to wonder about > just how thick they are in terms of basic critical reasoning and sums, > along with so-called EQ ratings. There seems to be a trick or two to taking tests of any sort. I've been fortunate. I seem to have -- or at least I did before my gray matter started to wrinkle more than usual -- a knack for tests which has served me well many times. > I doubt scores over 130 matter much. Don't you think it's at least an index of sort that can give a relative measure of an individual's mental abilities? Though I think the numbers might be more meaningful if they broke the standard IQ test into discrete areas of ability. For instance, I'd probably score fairly low in the area where you look at an object and then have to pick out from a number of different views which one is the same. But anything that involves math and grammer I'd probably score pretty high. > Administering the IQ tests in cultures that don't use paper and > pencil is hard - when amongst such people I have not found them any > dumber than we are. They do lack a tier of paper-pushing vandals that > screw up, replacing this with a purer form of malicious gossip. A test doesn't have to be on paper, does it? Most of the questions on an IQ test can be translated into actual situations which someone who can't read or write may be able to do quite well at. > One can test intelligence over a much greater range, perhaps in 20 > different frames - and when it comes, say, to spotting who is > smuggling the dope, my dog is smarter than me. I think that's what I was referrring to above, wasn't I? Or not? > Wasn't Marylin von a whore at some point - is this your wasted achievement > Gruff? No, not really, although everytime I've done something for money I've been a whore. Marylin has a very proper upbringing and education. Why she chose the populist path rather than a higher road is beyond me. Nor is that my wasted achievement. I've discussed this before in other threads, but to sum it up, I could have been much more than what I was and am, but I spent too many years as a child making up for what I didn't have when I was a child and now I carry far too much baggage to have any real credibility. I blame no one and take full responsibility. Hell, when people would ask me when I was going to get serious about my life my reply would be that I was taking my retirement now when I was young enough to enjoy it. And I can't say I didn't make the right choice given what I now know. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
