Mathematically speaking normal is not the lowest common denominator, it is the distribution of a
bell curve where average falls within the central tendency. I though all researchers would have
known that.
Lowest common denominator exists in fractions, however statistics are mostly calculated in decimals.
Larry who never got beyond O level in maths.
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> As anyone who knows anything about mathmatics will tell you
> the word 'normal' is the lowest common denominator therefore
> in the UK 'normal'
> signifies someone stupid enough to take as their source of
> information from 'The Sun' or in the USA from 'Fox News'.
>
> Although people have been using wheelchairs for hundreds of
> years it has been normal practice for educationalists to
> build establishments that create physical barriers to prevent
> wheelchair users from attending 'normal' schools thereby
> excluding perhaps the people most in need of education. On
> the whole this still applies to day, with teachers education
> being so limited that they are only trained to teach 'normal'
> children.
>
> It is normal for school educationalists to reject what is
> known on how people learn, e.g. the human brain can only
> absorb up to seven different chunks of information before it
> overloads requiring on average a further ten minuets to
> reflect on what is learned. It is currently understood that
> the human (and perhaps primate) brain functions best when the
> learning is associated with pleasure and not pain, yet the
> educational system in the UK (and perhaps beyond) is more
> geared up to mainly pointless exams in order to show that
> their establishment is better than the next one and by these
> exercises adding pain to the pupils rather than allowing real
> learning which has to involve reflection.
>
> I hope none of my friends are normal as normal to me means
> plain stupid!
>
> Keith
>
>
>
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> >From: [log in to unmask]
> >Date: 10/06/2008 14:06
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> >Subj: [DISABILITY-RESEARCH] CFP: The Fifth International Somatechnics
> Conference: The Technologisation of Bodies and Selves
> >
> >The Fifth International Somatechnics Conference: The
> Technologisation
> >of Bodies and Selves
> >Call for papers: Abstracts are invited for an international
> >conference to be held in Sydney, Australia, on April 16th-18th
> 2009.
> >Abstracts should be 300-500 words and should be forwarded to A/Prof
> >Nikki Sullivan at the address listed below. Proposals for panels
> and
> >for performance pieces are welcome.
> >
> > “Somatechnics” is a recently coined term used to highlight the
> >inextricability of soma and techné, of the body (as a culturally
> >intelligible construct) and the techniques (dispositifs and ‘hard
> >technologies’) in and through which bodies are formed and
> >transformed. This term, then, supplants the logic of the ‘and’,
> >indicating that technés are not something we add to or apply to the
> >body, but rather, are the means in and through which bodies are
> >constituted, positioned, and lived. As such, the term reflects
> >contemporary understandings of the body as the incarnation or
> >materialization of historically and culturally specific discourses
> >and practices.
> >
> >Possible topics:
> >
> >Somatechnologies of the self (‘non-mainstream’ body modification,
> >body sculpting, performance, fashion, drug use, ‘self-mutilation’,
> >religious practice, etc)
> >medical somatechnologies (cosmetic, reproductive, imaging,
> >corrective, sex (re)assignment, implantation, enhancement, bio-
> techs,
> >public health initiatives, etc)
> >somatechnics of law
> >somatechnologies of gender, sexuality, race, class, etc
> >somatechnologies of normalcy and pathology
> >somatechnics of war
> >somatechnologies of the post-human (cyborgs, nanotechnology,
> >virtuality, etc)
> >soma-ethics
> >Deadline for abstracts: November 30th 2008
> >
> >
> >Keynote Speakers include:
> >
> >Claudia Castaneda (Brandeis University)
> >
> >Nichola Rumsey (University of the West of England)
> >
> >Jennifer Terry (University of California, Irvine)
> >
> >
> >
> >Further information:
> >
> >The Somatechnics Conference Committee
> >
> >Somatechnics Research Centre
> >
> >Division of Society, Media, Culture and Philosophy
> >
> >Macquarie University
> >
> >North Ryde
> >
> >New South Wales 2109
> >
> >Australia
> >
> >
> >
> >Email: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
> >
> >Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 8760
> >
> >
> >
> >Somatechnics Research Centre Website: http://www.somatechnics.mq.edu.
> au
> >
> > __________________________________
> >
> >Jessica Cadwallader
> >Administrator
> >Somatechnics Research Centre
> >Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy
> >Macquarie University
> >NSW 2109 Australia
> >http://www.somatechnics.mq.edu.au
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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