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From: gcj@qmc-ori.UUCP (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Blade Runner and Intelligence Testing (Vol 4 # 165).
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Date: Mon, 14-Jul-86 12:02:52 EDT
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The test used in the film is to look for an emotional response to the
questions. They are fired off in quick succession, without giving the 
candidate time to think. He might then get angry...

>                    By the way, the fastest way to identify human
>  intelligence may be to look for questions that a human will recognize
>  as nonsense or outside his expected sphere of knowledge ("How long
>  would you broil a 1-pound docket?"  "Is the Des Moines courthouse taller
>  or shorter than the Wichita city hall?") but that an imitator might try
>  to bluff through. -- KIL

``Bluff''? What's the payoff?

Gordon Joly
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