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...tests rate classroom learning, aptitude tests assay something in between--developed abilities. Developed abilities are those nurtured through schoolwork, reading, doing crosswords, soaking up the arts, debating politics, whatever. These aren't inborn traits but honed competencies. Whereas early psychometricians, many of them racist, propagated what Lemann calls the dipstick theory--the idea that a test score is like a mark on a dipstick showing the raw amount of intelligence in your mental oil tank--the field outgrew that simplistic notion at least a generation ago. "I don't think anyone believes the SAT or even pure [IQ] tests...
...nine billion names of God did it get to this: Dead in the middle of a lecture on Plato or sociological concepts or Joyce, some god-awful ear-piercingly high shriek of Beethoven’s Ninth repeats over and over again until the dipstick, realizing the phone is his or hers, fumbles among candy wrappers and Chapstick to turn it off, only for it—or another—to go off five minutes later. And I love the people who are too humiliated to take responsibility, instead simply allowing the phone to complete a cycle of four...
Take an automated laboratory at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Conveyor belts transport blood or urine specimens in containers that resemble toy railroad cars from a collection point to a computerized analyzer. The machine takes a sample with a dipstick; the computer reads the results and flashes them to the monitor of the doctor in charge of the case. The lab will save the salaries of dozens of people who "used to move the specimens around by hand, read the test results on a screen and then telephone the doctor," says Scalzi. The lab cost $7 million...
...antidrug commercials and is working with Reebok to promote a shoe that would "pay tribute to antiapartheid awareness." He co-wrote and co-produced his new Chunky A record album. Its cuts include a comic rap number, a satire of raunch rock ("Let me check your oil with my dipstick") and a straight-faced antidrug anthem titled Dope...
...machining brittle material that combines eight ultrasonic machines into one unit. Gulton Industries of Metuchen, N.J. will bring out a new line of cleaners, standardize the manufacture of its drills and welders to meet demands of the expanding market. Acoustica Associates, Mineola, L.I., last week demonstrated a new "ultrasonic dipstick" that continuously gauges the levels of virtually any liquid...
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