Arfur Dogfrey wrote in message ...
:Helmut Wabnig wrote in message
. ..
: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:45:53 GMT, "Robert Karl Stonjek"
: wrote:
:
: It's True: Scientists Are Smart
: Nationwide IQ test confirms stereotypes
:
: A rowdy crowd of white-coated scientists, many recruited from the ranks
: of readers of The Scientist, upheld the community's braniac reputation
: by coming out on top in a televised national IQ test. "Test the Nation,"
: a Fox television special, aired on June 9 in the United States. The show
: pitted scientists against groups of teachers, celebrities, students,
: hard-hatted construction workers, muscle-shirt-wearing body builders,
: and blonde women. The scientist group scored highest with an average IQ
: of 125, followed by teachers and celebrities. The construction workers
: tied with students at a score of 115. Bringing up the rear, true to
: politically incorrect expectations, were the blondes and bodybuilders,
: with a respectable 111.
:
: The 60-question test, administered under the auspices of Mensa, the
: high-IQ society, comprised the usual mixture of language, logic, memory,
: math, and perception questions. In contrast to President Dwight
: Eisenhower's astonishment on discovering that fully half of all
: Americans have below-average intelligence, all the groups tested scored
: well above the average IQ score of 100.
:
: The Scientist.com
: http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2003/...nt_030630.html
:
: Comment:
: The didn't test the IQ of the average Newsgroup subscriber!! I'd
: separate them into two groups first:
: 1) those who eat raw meat and howl at the full moon;
: 2) the rest of us.
:
: I remember well that TV show where they demonstrated
: how certain little apes managed to learn about 800 symbols
: and would communicate and choose "words" by pressing the buttons.
: 800 words, that is about the average American's vocabulary,
: they said.
:
'beer'
'hey get me a beer'
'trailer'
'buuuurp'
'fixin vittles'
'get saddam'
'remote'
'get me the remote'
'you awake?'

well fewer than 800 I should imagine