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echo: indian_affairs
to: SONDRA BALL
from: JIM CASTO
date: 1997-07-06 13:04:00
subject: Re: BIASED TESTS

 -=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 SB> But only part.  And, also, there are different types of learning.  IQ
 SB> tests are supposed to measure the ability to learn academic type
 SB> material.
 Then why would one be required to demonstrate their lack of artistic ability
 by drawing a horse?
 SB> It does not measure the ability to learn to understand
 SB> human emotions, which may actually have greater survival value in the
 SB> long run.
 
 I have seen a lot of people survive in the workforce on human emotions.
 
 SB> Sometimes schizophrenic people have an astonishing high ability to
 SB> learn academic material.
 
 Isn't there a fine line between "genius" and "insanity"?
 
 JC> SB> Actually, I'm not convinced that the average American is middle and
 > SB> upper class anymore;
 
 SB> I guess that's true in the suburban areas around here.  But most of
 SB> the residential sections of the cities I know in eastern Pennsylvania,
 SB> southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware are in the "not so good"
 SB> category.
 
 Now we're down to your perception of "not so good" as opposed to mine. 
 Jim
 
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