I agree about the degrees. Our admissions director is attacked regularly behind her back for not having a regular college degree. I am the only one who says that the only things that count are the number of new students and how good their records are.
>David B. Shemano wrote: >> One of the hallmarks of the academic Lefty intelligentsia groupthink is the >> belief that anybody who believes IQ tests and results have relevance is evil >> and should be shunned, while simultaneously believing that their own high >> IQs demonstrate how much smarter they are than everybody else.< > >I haven't done a detailed and scientific survey of the "academic Lefty >intelligensia" the way David presumably has. But my personal >experience indicates that academics have entirely too much respect for >IQ tests, in their current incarnation in the SATs. Again and again, >I've heard about the need to raise the SAT cut-off for admission (at >Loyola Marymount University). Doubts about the SAT have been rising a >small number of other colleges and universities, however. > >For some reason, a large percentage of academics I've talked to are >not familiar with Gardner's research indicating that there are 8 or >more distinct kinds of "intelligence" rather than the one-dimensional >version of standard IQ tests. They are familiar with the cultural >biases of the dominant IQ tests, however. Strangely, I've never talked >to anyone who's familiar with recent medical research on twin studies >which indicates that poverty makes it difficult to attain the presumed >biologically-determined IQ. > >On the other hand, I don't think academics don't care about "their own >high IQs." Rather, it's their high academic degrees that count. This >makes psychological sense, of course: it's hard to take credit for >something like IQ, which is a result of some complex mixture of >environment and heredity, as opposed to something one has achieved. >-- >Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own >way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. >_______________________________________________ >pen-l mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
