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 Sunday, May 15, 2005
started 5/15/2005; 7:45:22 AM - last post 5/24/2005; 2:55:49 AM
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Doc Searls - Sunday, May 15, 2005 
5/15/2005; 11:45:22 AM (reads: 4056, responses: 3)
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Picture these
| | Just uploaded another pile of pix to Flickr. |
| | Included are some faves of Denise Howell, Ev Williams, Robert Scoble, Akma, Nick Denton, Wes Felter, Inma Martinez, Phil Windley, Steve Gillmor, Aaron Swartz, the Hammersly Family, Lake Powell, a pile of killer sunrises starting here, and Shoreline Grill — our favorite beachside restaurant in Santa Barbara. |
| | I'd tag the pix, but I get a "Tag not added! Invalid API Key (Key has expired)" JavaScript error message. And I'm flying to New York shortly, so dealing with that issue will have to wait. |
What it isn't
| | It seems to me that IQ tests, streaming in schools and national propaganda are all aimed at the same thing and for very much the same reasons. They are simplistic techniques for telling us what to think. And they get used because it's a great deal easier than teaching us how to think. |
Ingredients for a thought recipe
| | Huge sum of good thought food in there. |
Look up, Down Under
| | Says here the current Aurora Activity Level is 10 (out of 10), which means there should be a helluva light show going on right now, not only in Antactica but over the South Island of New Zeeland and up to the Southern reaches of Australia. |
| | Any reports? PIctures? Bear in mind that aurora are often curtains of light up to a thousand miles high, meaning they're visible much farther North than one might think. |
| | According to that same page, Seattle and Vancouver should be getting a show as well, although I'm guessing it's already dawn there. |
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tuur - What it isn't
5/15/2005; 1:40:25 PM (reads: 708, responses: 0)
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Why not use the measures that are available and track people's progress through life? We've done this with IQ and found that it is a good predictor of income.
IQ scores predict our incomes, yes.
But there is no direct causal relationship between IQ scores and high income. The school system is the main catalyst of the positive correlation between high IQ score and high income.
The school system is a system designed to select the highest IQ scores.
from J.T. Gatto, The poison of democracy
Now intelligence tests were huckstered in school district after school district; fortunes accrued to well-placed pedagogical leaders and their political allies. Every child would now be given a magical number ranking it scientifically in the great race of life. School grades might vary according to the whim of teachers, but IQ scores were unvarying, an emotionless badge of biological honor or shame, marking innate, almost unchanging ability. Millions of tests administered annually to primary and secondary students would prove the "value rank" of the American peoples. Mental ages were dutifully entered on permanent record cards with as much assurance as Horace Mann, Barnas Sears, WilliamTorrey Harris, John Dewey, and G. Stanley Hall had accepted skull maps drawn by their favorite phrenologists.
Schools were designed to select people with high IQ's.
Higher education is meant for people selected by schools.
Good jobs are given to people who passed higher education
Good jobs provide high income.
High IQ's are a great predictor of high income.
You always thought school is the best place to learn?
On average tutored students score better than 98% of classroom students – a two sigma shift.
(from mylearningblog
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Richard Byrom - Re: Sunday, May 15, 2005
5/15/2005; 6:52:10 PM (reads: 696, responses: 0)
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Richard Byrom - Flickr URL name
5/24/2005; 6:55:49 AM (reads: 614, responses: 0)
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