Goes with Spam -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton Sent: 14 November 2012 11:54 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: gay and 7 and IQ Doxalot? It's ages since a read the Arthurian legends L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" To: Cc: Sent:Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:29:53 -0000 Subject:Re: gay and 7 and IQ A bit of what?? :-) p puzzled God does not exbut a helluva lot of churches are spring p in Raynes Park even threatened with the doxa lot!! P puzzled and threatened and def of subject -better take the dog out (new dog last one was 65 years ago!!) -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton Sent: 14 November 2012 11:09 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: gay and 7 and IQ that was very sloppily said I am not equating defence of IQ with racism i'll just go and stand in the corner for a bit L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" To: Cc: Sent:Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:55:46 -0000 Subject:Re: gay and 7 and IQ Perhaps god only exists up to 10points -But I have never met the guy -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton Sent: 14 November 2012 10:43 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: gay and 7 and IQ I was listening to an exchange, I suppose you would call it, on a specialist radio programme. One side said that the problem with I Q testing is that if you repeat the test you get a different answer by up to 10 pts which is worrying. It may be generally indicative; but it is not precise I was debating or trying to debate the existence of God the other day and the main pro God argument seemed to be that I did not understand ttfn L >It did occur to me that the IQ wouldn't be understood >It gets complex and involves relation of forces... a statistical figure is not an identified number, but a force vector. So a specific example cannot be given unlike the sort stuff that follows Aristotle confused as neo-Platonist >There is a lot of myth around IQ testing saying it is all cultural, but that is ignorant crap, of course. IQ is not a category and to say so confuses index and category. On 07/11/12 03:38, Lawrence Upton wrote: > That's about it, I think.