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- From: bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: IQ scores
- Message-ID: <11025@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 05:46:31 GMT
- References: <11008@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <ednclark.725159573@kraken>
- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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- In article <ednclark.725159573@kraken> ednclark@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Jeffrey Clark) writes:
- >bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- >Why, what's wrong with posting IQ scores?
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- There's nothing wrong with it. It's merely a self defeating form
- of argument. Many will immediately turn you off if you quote your
- score and no one has asked for it.
-
- > What is wrong is implying that
- >this figure somehow makes you a superior person or that the figure somehow
- >lends weight to your argument.
-
- Which is invariably how invoking your IQ score is viewed.
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- Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
-
- "Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was
- dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I
- doing something wrong?"
- James Nicoll
-
- Q. How many Heisenbergs does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A. If you know the number, you don't know where the light bulb is!
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