Word: iq
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...came up from Florida yesterday, so I’ve probably got an adequate supply for the next few months. I keep the notebooks in four different colors, which in my mind relates to the seasons of the year. I’m now going to give you an IQ test. What season will this be [holds up blue notebook...
...unworthy and unnecessary to student life, and the snobbery that suggests we are all too important to be bothered with the foolish plebeians who see fit to visit our campus. This sort of snobbery is also evident at Harvard during debates about politics—remember the fake IQ charts that showed dumb people vote for Bush—or any sort of moral issue—witness what happens if some poor soul tries to cite the Bible in an any argument over anything...
...photograph the Science Center. And the Barker Center. And Memorial Hall. And Widener. When I’m asked, repeatedly, by a balding, elderly gentleman and his wife whether I’m happy (they had read in a magazine that Harvard students are not happy) and whether my IQ happens to exceed 120 (a friend had told them that this was a requirement for admission), I want to tear my hair out slowly—follicle by follicle. When I have to walk along the periphery of the Yard to get to class because the 50 yards in front...
...that end, he and fellow screeners hope for high scores on empathy and intelligence (one recommends a minimum IQ of 110). They are worried that a predisposition toward solitude, though fine for monks, may bode ill in pastoral settings. They red-flag callings that seem to have been rebound responses to romantic breakups or other traumas and look for unrealistic job expectations (one of Plante's candidates modeled himself after Mother Teresa, down to the year he expected to accept his Nobel Prize). They are especially vigilant for histories of sexual abuse combined with low impulse control regarding alcohol, gambling...
...film ends, and Jeff returns into the screening room. I mention the doomsday rhetoric and he laughs it off. He invites me and Allen to return to the church. Looking at me, he describes how his IQ has gone up since becoming a Scientologist (a claim I heard repeated by several other adherents). He smiles...