[geeks] Mensa

[William Kirkland]

... but they are smarter! they are smart enough to whine about the  
difficulty in learning to do long division and square roots without a  
calculator. They have successfully bargained for less work, which  
makes them at least 200 points smarter.

On May 12, 2007, at 19:59 PDT, geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:

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Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 20:43:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [geeks] Mensa
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> From: Aaron Finley <aaronfinley at gmail.com>
> Date: 2007/05/12 Sat PM 05:56:13 CDT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Mensa

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> If you get a 1000 on the SAT, and your friend gets a 1500 in half the
> time it took you to get a 1000, then you could say "oh, he's just good
> at taking tests" but really...

I thought the SAT was sexist and racist, and was skewed towards  
"middle-class" americans? I think it's great that some colleges are  
no longer using SAT results to screen applicants...

When I went to college, the SAT was harder (my opinion), a dozen  
years ago (or so) they monkeyed with the math and gave everyone  
another 200 points towards the 1600 possible points, send everyones  
scores higher, and I'm sure, making kids "feel" smarter...

Lionel

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