Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick wrote: > > At 09:49 AM 5/16/00 -0500, Birkey, Duane wrote: > > > ><snip> > > > >And while a high IQ can be good for certain careers, it is a poor measure of > >ability and worth. > > > ><snip> > > > >Duane (rambling again) Birkey > > Not long ago, here in the US, a person was not allowed to become a police > officer because his IQ was too high. He sued for discrimination and lost. > The reason he was denied the job, even though he aced all of the exams and > tests, was that (according to the city/state management) folks with too > high an IQ don't follow orders very well and they "think" too much. > > Jim I read that there are over 200 different ways of being intelligent and the IQ test measures the 3 or 4 ways LEAST NECESSARY FOR SURVIVAL. Mark Rabiner