RE: What is the size of your vocabulary?
July 18, 2011 at 8:08 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2011 at 8:10 am by Faith No More.)
(July 17, 2011 at 11:44 pm)padraic Wrote: 'Crap'? An interesting objective assessment.Based on what evidence?
Eight years of observation of the man trying to put together a coherent sentence in his native language, English.
padriac Wrote:My point was not to quibble over numbers,but a comment on the unreliability if many tests,including standard IQ tests. (and indeed,the very notion of an Intelligence Quotient)
I agree, but it is a generalization of someone's intelligence. It can be assumed that if one gets a 140 on the IQ test, that the person can be deemed reasonably intelligent. I chose the number 110, because that is the high end of the average level for humans. I don't honestly think is IQ is 110, but it was a nice way to quantify the fact that I don't think he is any smarter than a moderately intelligent chimpanzee.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
