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- From: pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne)
- Subject: Iikka's Claims
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.085553.16195@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:55:53 GMT
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- Ok, I've been following the debate about IQ vs Religious tendencies, & I
- finally am fed up. I hope that this message is directed at the correct
- person. Some of the attributions got pretty deep.
-
- Iikka, you claimed to have a study relating to
- this topic. In some of your messages you claim that it included 1000
- subjects. I want proof! Who conducted it? How was it conducted? Show it
- to us! Proof, proof, proof!
- Unless you prove that it exists, I will believe that you are a liar!
- Your messages have shown sufficient weaseling to make me doubt its
- existance.
-
- (Opinions follow)
- Also, your bragging about your IQ is crass and unseemly. If your claim
- is true (after all, your honesty is in doubt) why do you need to tell
- everyone about it? Your attitude is much like people who know their
- height down to a tenth of an inch, or men who know the exact lenth of
- their penis. People who are comfortable with a certain aspect of
- themselves usually are not so proccupied with measuring it exactly.
-
- I know quite a few intelligent people, and some very
- intelligent ones. Not all of them scored high on IQ tests. Also, most of
- them don't go around bragging about their test scores. The few that do
- are, as a rule, self-important jerks.
- In case there is any doubt: Yes, I am implying that you may be a
- self-important jerk. (Although I have not read enough of your messages
- to be sure. Maybe an off day :-)
-
- -Pete (Ticked off at blind arrogance)
- pcrayne@halcyon.com
- "Statistics are no substitute for judgement."
-