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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Spelling and Perceptual Mode (was: Effects of poor writing?)
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Date: 22 May 89 18:36:55 GMT
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In article <748@cogsci.ucsd.EDU> meadors@cogsci.UUCP (Tony Meadors) writes:
} I would bet that given a "real" cross-section of individuals (think of
} testing everyone that enters the DMV for example) you would find quite
} a tidy correlation between performance on a spelling test and a standard 
} IQ test: say, 0.3 to 0.4. Why this is, as well as what it means to
} designers, educators, and we, the poor spellers, is an open question.

Possibly because you're a compulsive gambler? (-:  (What you would bet on
has little to do with what is).

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