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- From: bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
- Message-ID: <11034@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:04:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.115039.22563@prime.mdata.fi> <1992Dec29.195246.22383@arden.linet.org> <1992Dec30.122043.410@prime.mdata.fi>
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- In article <1992Dec30.122043.410@prime.mdata.fi> iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.195246.22383@arden.linet.org> joeb@arden.linet.org (Joe Beiter) writes:
- >>
- >>So what are you trying to say? That there was no IQ<-->Athesim study actually
- >>and that you just said this to see what kind of responses you'd get?
- >
- >Yes, I never had any study, and never said so (MY study I mean, I had a study
- >of some psychologist, but the topic wasn't the same, but close). And yes,
- >I wanted to see what people had to say on this subject and how strongly they
- >would oppose it also.
- >
-
- And you wonder why I accused of playing a mind fuck two days ago?
- Tell us, Iikka (is that your real name?), what is your actual IQ?
- Do you actually have eight friends?
-
- The saddest point of all is that you don't even realize that
- almost no one here opposed your (supposed) thesis. What was
- objected to was your methodology, transparent to some of us as it
- was.
-
- You've been a bad boy. Two demerits and no recess. Come back
- when you've learned some interpersonal skills, a little honesty,
- and had a near fatal dose of humility.
-
-
- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
-
- 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!
-
-