50% OF POPULATION BELOW AVG IQ!
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From: mmeron on 14 Jan 2006 15:25 In article <1137259249.137620.83330(a)g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Tony" <ajw27703(a)yahoo.com> writes: >It's also worth noting that most IQ tests have components that are >culture specific. Standardizing tests is a bear of a problem, and you'd >be surprised at how few data points often are used to establish the >stardards. We'd score badly on a test standardized for Africa, or Lake >Woebegon. > That must explain why East Asians do on the average slightly better then Europeans, on tests standardized for Europeans. Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool, meron(a)cars.uchicago.edu | chances are he is doing just the same"
From: Bilge on 15 Jan 2006 05:44 Jerry: >TMG wrote: >> George Hammond wrote: >> > 50% of the human race is below average intelligence. >> >> SHOCKING!!! >> >> Unbelievably SHOCKING!!! >> >> Next you'll discover that: >> >> Half of all ladders are below average ladder height. >> >> Half of all cars are below average car length. >> >> Half of all penguins are below average penguin weight. >> >> Half of all Hammond's posts are below the average Hammond post length. >> >> ..... >> >> SHOCKING!!!! I say! > >However, every manager knows (or ought to know) that 90% of >all people are superior at SOMETHING. >It's the secret to building >winning teams out of ordinary people. Find out what each person >does best, and take advantage of that knowledge. What if your team doesn't need any mattress testers, the clock watcher's position has been filled and the complaints department already has customers who complain for free?
From: mmeron on 15 Jan 2006 06:04 In article <slrndskgr7.s0l.dubious(a)radioactivex.lebesque-al.net>, dubious(a)radioactivex.lebesque-al.net (Bilge) writes: > Jerry: > >TMG wrote: > >> George Hammond wrote: > >> > 50% of the human race is below average intelligence. > >> > >> SHOCKING!!! > >> > >> Unbelievably SHOCKING!!! > >> > >> Next you'll discover that: > >> > >> Half of all ladders are below average ladder height. > >> > >> Half of all cars are below average car length. > >> > >> Half of all penguins are below average penguin weight. > >> > >> Half of all Hammond's posts are below the average Hammond post length. > >> > >> ..... > >> > >> SHOCKING!!!! I say! > > > >However, every manager knows (or ought to know) that 90% of > >all people are superior at SOMETHING. > >It's the secret to building > >winning teams out of ordinary people. Find out what each person > >does best, and take advantage of that knowledge. > > What if your team doesn't need any mattress testers, the clock watcher's >position has been filled and the complaints department already has customers >who complain for free? > You sure you want to use your whole condescation supply that early in the year?:-) Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool, meron(a)cars.uchicago.edu | chances are he is doing just the same"
From: Jerry on 15 Jan 2006 07:30 Bilge wrote: > Jerry: > >TMG wrote: > >> George Hammond wrote: > >> > 50% of the human race is below average intelligence. > >> > >> SHOCKING!!! > >> > >> Unbelievably SHOCKING!!! > >> > >> Next you'll discover that: > >> > >> Half of all ladders are below average ladder height. > >> > >> Half of all cars are below average car length. > >> > >> Half of all penguins are below average penguin weight. > >> > >> Half of all Hammond's posts are below the average Hammond post length. > >> > >> ..... > >> > >> SHOCKING!!!! I say! > > > >However, every manager knows (or ought to know) that 90% of > >all people are superior at SOMETHING. > >It's the secret to building > >winning teams out of ordinary people. Find out what each person > >does best, and take advantage of that knowledge. > > What if your team doesn't need any mattress testers, the clock watcher's > position has been filled and the complaints department already has customers > who complain for free? Then you don't hire them, of course. You don't hire people and hope to find something for them to do. You hire people who are good at what you want them to do. Take yourself, for instance. I somehow doubt that you would be considered good at the sort of high-profile "customer relations" necessary to lobby Congress for an additional zillion dollars of support for a high energy accelerator facility. I doubt you'd even be considered good at low-profile customer relations at WalMart. (I was very good at the checkout stand, by the way). Nothing bad about that, it's just not your style. You are obviously not too great a C/C++ programmer, but that's not your function either. Everybody has a mix of skills and incompetencies, good and bad traits. Most of us who post on these newsgroups, including myself, are probably a bit defective in the social skills arena. But outside of these newsgroups, I'm an excellent student, and I anticipate becoming a pretty good physician. Just because I am not so hot in the social skills department, does not mean that I lack the empathy and understanding that, in addition to skill and intelligence, are essential to becoming a good doctor. Jerry
From: tadchem on 15 Jan 2006 06:46
"Tony" <ajw27703(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1137265081.202426.238150(a)g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Mark noted > > You might also consider that 50% of all doctors graduated > in the bottom half of their class. > > so I'll remind all of you when you do go to your doctor with a sore > throat, you don't want to see the degree on the wall, but the > transcript: did he get an "A" in throat? "Do you realize that somewhere in the world is the worst doctor? Has to be. Process of elimination. Sooner or later you're going to find the worst doctor. The scary part is ... someone has an appointment to see him tomorrow" - George Carlin Tom Davidson Richmond, VA |