In his book 'More Games for the Super-Intelligent', James F. Fixx has this to say about intelligence:
... We can agree, too, on at least one other thing: intelligence is well worth having. Intelligence has, to be sure, landed more than a few of its possessors in deep trouble. One thinks, for example, of the student who on a physics examination was asked to describe a method for determining the height of a building by using a barometer. Finding the expected answer obvious and uninteresting, he outraged the educational authorities by giving the two alternate methods: (1) drop the barometer off the building's roof and time the interval until it smashes on the ground; (2) find the owner of the building and say to him, "If you tell me how tall your building is, I will give you a good barometer." ...
There was also a third method proposed: find the owner of the building and say to him, "If you don't tell me how tall your building is, I'll break this barometer over your head."
Haha.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
What is intelligence?
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Heard of that before. Hilarious! :)
They have a full page of "alternative" barometer measurement tricks in this page:
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my physic teacher back in high school told me this too. interesting.
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