X-Message-Number: 11492
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: about intelligence and intelligence tests
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 00:29:40 +1000 (EST)

Hi again!

A very short observation for Hugh Hixon: yes, the observations about 
intelligence tests are true.

But there is another way to think about this issue. It may impugn the 
notion of "intelligence" as defined by intelligence tests. And after all,
even if the people of 100 years ago might have scored as mentally 
deficient on our tests, no one can seriously believe they were really
mentally deficient considering what they accomplished in their time.
And so the discoverers of electromagnetism, Gallois, Henry, and Gauss
were mentally deficient? 

			Best and long long life again,

				Thomas Donaldson

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