Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero-c!nadel From: cdm@inel.gov (Dale Cook) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: IQ tests Message-ID: <1991Feb28.165723.19087@inel.gov> Date: 28 Feb 91 16:57:23 GMT References: <11119@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Jan28.234342.10420@melba.bby.oz.au> Sender: news@aero.org Reply-To: cdm@inel.gov (Dale Cook) Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho Lines: 36 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Status: R Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org In article <1991Jan28.234342.10420@melba.bby.oz.au>, zvs@bby.oz.au (Zev Sero) writes: |> Bob = RMG3@psuvm.psu.EDU (Bob Grumbine) |> |> Bob> My mother encountered a problem on the SAT which asked (roughly) |> Bob> 'How much grass in fair territory in the infield could a goat on |> Bob> a 30 foot tether eat?'. Anyone without detailed knowledge of the |> Bob> layout of a baseball field (such as my mother) has no hope of |> Bob> answering this one. |> |> I just had a horrible thought---is there any grass at all in the fair |> territory in the infield? It wouldn't be a concrete area, or one mown |> and rolled down to nothing, would it? |> No, but it could be astroturf :-) :-) :-) (Sorry, couldn't resist...) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Dale Cook cdm@inel.gov The opinions are mine. The following disclaimer is my employers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ========== long legal disclaimer follows, press n to skip =========== Neither the United States Government or the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory or any of their employees, makes any warranty, whatsoever, implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility regarding any information, disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. No specific reference constitutes or implies endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Government or the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.