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Subject: Re: Intelligence
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 14:23:05 EDT
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> From hao!woods (greg):
>             But scores on an IQ test seems like such an *arbitrary* criterion
>for eliminating 98% of the available possibilities before even *meeting* them.
>I still think that's taking the "selection" process a long way overboard.

	OK, let's differentiate between intelligence and IQ scores.  I guess I
measure intelligence by how stimulating (mentally! :-) I find it to talk to
another person, and in particular how much I can learn from this person.  I
don't even know what my IQ is, I certainly would not use such an arbitrary
number to judge others.  My "intelligence criterion" can not be applied until
I have talked to a person for a while.

>> (me):
>> I have found that
>> most of the truly intelligent women I meet are at work, since there are a lot
>> of women who go into atmospheric sciences. But that is not a good place to be
>> looking for romance, so I am at a loss.  

>  Why not, Jon? I know two people who are getting married this summer who met
>at NCAR. Sounds like yet another arbitrary advanced elimination criteria to me.
>At least consider the possibility that you are closing yourself off from some
>potentially rewarding relationships.

	This comes down to the old question of dating those with whom you work.
I have no qualms against dating people from another division, but, being
isolated from most of NCAR by my location, I don't get to do much of that.  You
have a good point, though, and I will just have to work on that....hmm...

jon

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Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
{seismo|hplabs}!hao!boulder!jon		(Thanks to CU CS department)