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Last Tuesday's Crimson (November 20) featured an article by a Dr. Clemens E. Benda, who was said to be an international authority on mental retardation and child development. He argued that I.Q. tests do not really measure intelligence because intelligence is not "linear;" that I.Q. scores are not fixed throughout life and are anyway meaningless for adults, and, furthermore, that many "enormous contributions" have been made by people who did poorly on I.Q. tests. He claimed to have found "embarrassing" misinformation in my writings; he said that the genetics of human intelligence is not scientifically established; he dismissed...
...careful attempt to replace the rather arbitrary methods of judging human potential by measurement on a sounder scientific scale. However Binet and Simon knew that their "measuring scale of intelligence," properly speaking, does not measure true intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, thus cannot be measured as linear surfaces but are rather a classification, "a hierarchy among diverse intelligences." They wrote: "intelligence, better mentality, encompasses many different faculties, including sensation, emotions, and others." They considered the most important faculty within intelligence to be judgment, "otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting oneself to circumstances...
What's more, the room comes in various curved and linear designs, and generally is equipped with a small sofa that glides on a track around the perimeter, moving from the audio-visual area, say, to a work station. "This is not just a toy," insists Architect William Pulgram, president of Associated Space Design, which will build the environments for Neiman-Marcus. "It is a recognition of a need in our society, a search for 'the real me.' This creates a favorable spatial experience for your task or function to become meaningful...
...time before black humor, the roman nouveau, and the new journalism, when writers and readers believed that fiction was the ideal way to capture the essence of experience. In some respects, McGuane is a literary descendant of Hemingway. Both men are rigorous stylists; for both, reality emerges from careful, linear detail. It has been some time since a writer has acknowledged, as McGuane does, having been influenced by anything of Hemingway's except Death in the Afternoon. Possibly a change of fashion is at hand...
...spell AUTOMAT, but in fact they defy reading. The signs have ceased to signify. They are fragments-not in the sense of being broken, but in the "historical" sense of archaic fragments: the illegible pictograph, the stone bearing a message in a dead language, the passage written in Minoan Linear B. The work is meant to suggest endurance-despite its dependence on paying the electricity bill...