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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Intelligence
Message-ID: <1338@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 01:38:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 01:38:57 1985
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Keywords: spectrum analysers and Frauleins
Summary:  the Bavarian Beagle goes shooting off on a tangent

In article <1174@sjuvax.UUCP> jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro) writes:
>Has anyone out there noted yet that the standardized IQ tests test only for
>a particular kind of logic, and that such tests are invalid for many of
>the testees - the fact that your logic and the test's logic do not agree
>does not render you stupid.

Sounds like something I've had running in background for awhile:
most of us have heard the expression, "on the same wavelength",
used to describe two people who got along very well.  Where did this
expression come from?  Probably from radio, where your radio set has to be
tuned to the same frequency as the set of the person you're trying to
communicate with. If it's a little off, there'll be noise and distortion,
if it's a lot off, forget it. But if you're on the same frequency, you
come in "loud and clear".  Now, how does this relate to us?  After all,
we don't have a superhet between the ear and the brain.  I think it has to
do with the way your brain works.  For we usenet techie types, logic
is a big part of how our brains work.

Now, the human mind is much too complex to be described by a single
number (frequency).  Lets propose that there are many components,
so we hook up a spectrum analyser, and display the spectrum.  Now, we
can say that "so-and-so's spectrum correlates with mine in such-and-such
areas, and doesn't in these others.

There seems to be something significantly different in the thought
processes of the two genders.  (yes, with plenty of exceptions)
Is this not why we have so much trouble understanding each other?

An artist could have the same amount of intelligence as a UNIX
hacker, but the spectrum would be totally different.

Snoopy (looking for a Fraulein with a nice spectrum)
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