Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!ihlpf!zonker
From: zonker@ihlpf.UUCP (Tom Harris)
Newsgroups: net.med,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Loss of I.Q.
Message-ID: <753@ihlpf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 13:18:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpf.753
Posted: Thu Oct  2 13:18:27 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 08:44:27 EDT
References: <253@decvax.UUCP> <698@hropus.UUCP> <599@zeus.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
Lines: 19
Xref: watmath net.med:5026 soc.singles:280

In article <698@hropus.UUCP> jin@hropus.UUCP (Jerry Natowitz) writes:
>
>> "Dr. Carl Faber, in a lecture on pornography aired over KPFK,
>> warned listeners that "Your I.Q. drops 40 points when you're
>> thinking about masturbating."  He didn't say how the research
>> was done."
>> 
>> 	From The Realist, No. 102, September-October 1986
 
Gee, I thought I.Q. was supposed to be a constant measure of
mental ability (granted there is no perfect (or even very good)
way to measure this, but that is beside the point).  It doesn't
change from moment to moment or because your doing something else.
 Granted your ability to take an I.Q. test is going to be impaired
if you have to think about masterbating at the same time or think
about football or (miriads of similar bland things here).

					Non Cuniculus Est,
						Tom H.