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...around him were never very respectful of authority or convention. He shared a room until he was nine with a free-spirited grandmother, who had a romance late in life with a mysterious government agent and taught Newt to read and write before he even started school. With an IQ of 124 by third grade, he did well only in the subjects that interested...
...Pendleton, New York, a town of 5,010 some 15 miles east of Niagara Falls. His parents divorced when he was 10; he and one sister stayed with his father, another sister stayed with his mother. McVeigh's high school teachers and classmates remember him as intelligent (his IQ is a well-above-average 125), an excellent student in subjects that interested him and a quiet but friendly companion. His final grade-point ranking was not quite high enough to qualify him for a course in computer programming that he hoped to take, and he eventually enlisted...
RATHER THAN LOOK FOR A CART AND A horse, we should realize that EQ and IQ are two sides of the same coin. It comes as no surprise that emotionally well-adjusted people tend to have high test scores or that those with intelligence and problem-solving ability have a high EQ. The growing disdain for test scores is a dangerous trend. Is crying at the end of Forrest Gump more valuable to society than knowing when World War I occurred? Arguments based on emotion have resulted in the shrill and hysterical nature of discourse in the U.S. JOE HARDY...
...into the very pit it attempts to avoid. The question should not be "Why the smartest kid in the class will probably not end up the richest," but "Why the smartest kid will probably not end up the happiest." Success today is measured by money, something as quantifiable as IQ. Happiness is more like EQ: vague, but you know if you've got it. JULIEN OLIVIER Barrington, New Hampshire...
...LIKE IQ, SHOULD NOT BE LOOKED on as a legitimate indicator of success. For one thing, defining EQ is difficult and subject to error. So imagine how susceptible to bias measuring it is. Something so open to misuse should not be given much credibility. JANET LEE Tarzana, California