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Sociologist Dane Archer cites Dr. Bell's deductive skill as an example of a subtle ability totally different from the verbal and mathematical capacities measured by standard IQ tests. He calls it social intelligence, or the knack of picking up nonverbal signals. In his book How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quotient (M. Evans; $9.95), Archer writes that while a high S.I. helped make Bell a great doctor, today's medical schools, psychiatric institutes and other professional training centers ignore it when picking their students. Says he: "Verbal intelligence has a dismal record for predicting success...
...Archer, who teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz, gave his own S.I. tests to 2,400 men and women. They were asked multiple-choice questions about the status or relationship of people in a series of photographs like those on this page. Archer says that his subjects showed a fairly high ability to read the pictures correctly, but parents were better at it than nonparents, presumably because they had learned to decipher the babbling of babies. Women were more adept than men, which seems to indicate that "female intuition" is no sexist myth. And actors rated high...
...Archer is now at work on a 30-minute film based on his book. Consisting mostly of self-test sequences introduced by him, it will be distributed next year by McGraw-Hill to corporations, universities and governmental agencies...
...wants no part of it," says Admiral Robards of his mercenary friend). And David Selby is Dr. Seagram, a scientist who, somewhat inexplicably, learned enough at Cal Poly to both devise the laser shield and figure out how to find the Titanic. There is even a woman, Anne Archer, who plays a reporter for The Washington Star...
...Kane and Abel, Archer...