Another question is can you find someone worthy to breed with ?
In fairness, while the OP seems to have made a bunch of demonstrable mistakes in this thread, I see that he posted in one other thread yesterday, in which he relayed medical insights by – well, swapping in “effect” for “affect”, as well as misspelling “psychological” and “produce” and “noticeable”.
At that, it’s possible that he was just misspelling “affect”. Papertrail, could you do me the favor of mentioning which type of junior-high error you made with “effect”?
Papertrail, why don’t you look into the demands made by sperm banks, like this one ? If you’d were to become a donor, you would provide a very important service. And your genes are passed on. But beware, your future wife might have an emotional problem with you having been a donor.
This article might also be informative and amusing. 6 Terrifying Things Nobody Tells You About Donating Sperm | Cracked.com
I’m confused. Let’s assume it’s true.
Man with a smart X chromosome. Boys won’t inherit it, girls will. The girls will get Daddy’s smarts, modified by whatever comes from Mom; the boys will have to look at Mom’s.
Woman with one smart and one dumb X chromosome. Half the children of each sex will inherit the smart one, half the dumb one.
Combination of the two above, the smarts are defined by a combo of both parental factors.
Woman with two equally-smart or two equally-dumb X chromosomes, the children’s smarts are defined by which chromosome they got from Daddy.
That makes the male’s contribution less relevant for the male offspring, but hey, I got my smarts from Daddy…
People come up with competitions for the weirdest things… scratches head in confusion
At nearly 80 words per second, how on earth do they measure her accuracy?
You have to answer questions about the text once you’re finished reading it.
So she could answer 2/3 of the questions correctly?
Gotcha. Generally when I measure students’ accuracy I’m measuring word-by-word accuracy: do they read “reading” correctly as “reading” or incorrectly as “reaching,” “reads,” or “redding”?
2/3 of questions answered makes more sense. I wonder how high-level the questions are.
I think the word “accuracy” is a bit misleading here (will I get hit if I say it’s inaccurate?); it may be what’s officially used, but in our own speed-reading lessons it was called comprensión… understanding, comprehension. Some of the questions would specifically be worded in ways that avoided being close to the original text; there was no attempt at having people remember whether the budget for one project was USD1,353,412 or USD1,534,321 but you might be expected to remember that it was “between 1 and 2 USDM”.
Gotcha–thanks! That’s the most interesting thing in this thread so far.
I think we need more information before rushing to judgment. How old are you? What do you do for work? What are your educational credentials? Relationship status? Religious or non-religious? How are your personal finances? Are you good with money?
You mean like how long you can keep a ferret in your pants ?? ![]()
Might be detrimental to the breeding…
And here we see the perils of self-evaluation in all their blessed glory.![]()
This is probably just my lower-than-210 IQ speaking, but I’m having a hard time taking the OP seriously here. Thanks to everyone who contributed useful information in the thread, nonetheless.
Anyone who wishes to continue a discussion about passing on intelligence is welcome to start another thread on the topic. I’m closing this one.