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...questionnaire included queries such as "Which means most to you: prestige, security, power, or money?" as well as questions about IQ's, favorite hair color, heroes, relationships with fathers, and sexual experience...
...great ironies of the computer is that it would rate as a low-grade moron if given an IQ test. "With a computer," says Mathematician Richard Bellman of the Rand Corp., "everything is reversed. If a one-year-old child can do it, a computer can't. A computer can calculate a trajectory to the moon. What it cannot do is to look upon two human faces and tell which is male and which is female, or remember what it did for Christmas five years ago." Bellman might get an argument about that from some computermen, but his point...
...college to review their knowledge of the recent news; more than 1,000,000 students took it in January. Beginning this week, it becomes available to the public on sale at key news dealers across the country (price: 10?). If you would like to rate your own "News IQ," look for the TIME Current Affairs Test at your neighborhood newsstand. And if you checked B above, you're off to a good start...
...that day, George Whitmore, 19, a myopic, pock-marked Negro drifter with an IQ of 60, walked up to a Brooklyn cop in an area where a nurse had barely managed to frighten off a rapist the night before. "What was all the shooting about last night?" asked Whitmore carelessly. For days afterward, he was answering, not asking questions...
...jargon of educationists, the corrupting TV-loot mentality, the jingoistic powerelites of government, business and education. There is one brief moment of absurdly human pathos when the boy himself (Brian Chapin) agrees to go with the child buyer in the hope that "some day, I might achieve an IQ of over...