IQ tests

Just to show how messed up IQ tests are , i took one of those on line
and it came to the conclusion that my strong point was in linguistics.
maybe my spelling is more rational than appears. and capitalization on
words you accent as in your Speech really makes more sense to me.
I told a poet friend of mine who puts on big poetry readings up that i
gave up poetry because i really have a problem with language. He
committed that is exactly what a poet is,
someone who have a problem with language.
-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU 88.9 FM WED 8-9PM PST

In a message dated 2003:09:30 12:41:21 AM, kraiggrady@... writes:

> I told a poet friend of mine who puts on big poetry readings up that
>i gave up poetry because i really have a problem with language. He
>committed that is exactly what a poet is,
>someone who have a problem with language.

"One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common
is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt

"There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the
poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet as
'language designer'." --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.

"La poésie date d' aujour d'hui." (Poetry dates from today)
"La poésie est en jeu." (Poetry is in play)
--- Blaise Cendrars

--- º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º ø,¸¸,ø º°`°º º°`°º ø,¸~->

Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
http://www.boheme-magazine.net

"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language,
and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of
human comprehension." - Ezra Pound

Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...

"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

= ! gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa!
! riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! =

(Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!)

that is greatly appreciated

czhang23@... wrote:

> In a message dated 2003:09:30 12:41:21 AM, kraiggrady@... writes:
>
> > I told a poet friend of mine who puts on big poetry readings up that
> >i gave up poetry because i really have a problem with language. He
> >committed that is exactly what a poet is,
> >someone who have a problem with language.
>
> "One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common
> is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt
>
> "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the
> poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet as
> 'language designer'." --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.
>
> "La po�sie date d' aujour d'hui." (Poetry dates from today)
> "La po�sie est en jeu." (Poetry is in play)
> --- Blaise Cendrars
>
> --- ��`�� �,��,� ��`�� �,��,� ��`�� �,��,� ��`�� ��`�� �,�~->
>
> Hanuman Zhang, Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist
> "the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
> http://www.boheme-magazine.net
>
> "The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language,
> and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of
> human comprehension." - Ezra Pound
>
> Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
> leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
> orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
> warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...
>
> "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
> title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
> _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
>
> = ! gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa!
> ! riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! =
>
> (Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!)
>
>
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--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, kraig grady <kraiggrady@a...>
wrote:

> Just to show how messed up IQ tests are , i took one of those on
line
> and it came to the conclusion that my strong point was in
linguistics.

i think this says more about online questionnaires than about iq
tests (which are of course not real science anyway).

frank zappa took a test when he was young that said his optimal
carreer choice would be clerical work.

funny thing was it wasthe same as it was in high school

Paul Erlich wrote:

> --- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, kraig grady <kraiggrady@a...>
> wrote:
>
> > Just to show how messed up IQ tests are , i took one of those on
> line
> > and it came to the conclusion that my strong point was in
> linguistics.
>
> i think this says more about online questionnaires than about iq
> tests (which are of course not real science anyway).
>
> frank zappa took a test when he was young that said his optimal
> carreer choice would be clerical work.
>
>
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-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU 88.9 FM WED 8-9PM PST

> i think this says more about online questionnaires than about
> iq tests (which are of course not real science anyway).

Actually, as a statatician, I'd love to listen to any further
comments about iq tests. I don't have much confidence in
psychologists, but last I heard they did claim to extract a
factor, g, from the vast aggregate of all iq test tests. And
further, there was an experiment where people were introduced
to one another for short periods and then asked to rate each-
other's intelligence, and they were able to come very close
to g, or something. Did I read this in the New Yorker? Can't
remember.

-Carl