From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:30:22 +0000, Helen Hall   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > In message    
   > , David  Harmon  writes   
      
   >> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:10:31 +1000 in rec.arts.sf.misc,   
   >> Aqua  wrote,   
      
   >>>David Friedman wrote:   
      
   >>>> In article ,   
      
   >>>>  Aqua  wrote:   
      
   >>>>> Is there anyone else who finds this faith in the power   
   >>>>> of IQ charming, like a child who still believes in   
   >>>>> Santa Claus?   
      
   >>>> You do remember that "patronizing" was one of the terms   
   >>>> you applied pejoratively--to someone else?   
      
   >>> As far as I can tell, Larry Summers wasn't doing it   
   >>> deliberately.   
      
   >> Are you being deliberately patronizing, or are you just   
   >> too bigoted to realize you are doing it?   
      
   > I am confident that Aqua's command of the English language   
   > is such that she would only ever be patronising on   
   > purpose.   
      
   When I first read her comment, I immediately thought of the   
   delightful old definition of a gentleman -- someone who   
   never accidentally insults someone else.   
      
   [...]   
      
   > So it all boils down to whether you believe IQ tests test   
   > anything other than the ability to do well in IQ tests.   
   > [...]   
      
   An ability for which Banesh Hoffman coined the term   
   'iquination' back in the early 60s (in his classic _The   
   Tyranny of Testing_).   
      
   Brian   
      
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