The National IQ test
Wed, 7 Aug 2002, 03:11 amcrgwllms6 posts in thread
The National IQ test
Wed, 7 Aug 2002, 03:11 amMy mum rang me this arvo, and suggested I watch the National IQ test on channel 7 tonight. I had no idea about it, hadn't heard of it, and was going out to an Equity committee meeting; but I made the effort and set the VCR. (Some may argue that successfully programming a VCR puts you in the top percentile by itself.)
Thank god I did.
Ignoring the fact that what should have been a 10 minute process took over an hour to deliver and then mark...and of course the inevitable half hour of commercials;...Thank the God of Remote Controls that I could fast forward over the hour's worth of Eddie McGuire & company's banal presentation, and the absolutely hideous comparison groups of blondes, kiwis, footy clubs and celebrities!
I haven't figured out whether the utter tedium and ocker banality was really a suave and subtle tongue-in-cheek send up of the whole process; or is this really a measure of how we see ourselves? Taking the piss and dumbing it down to such an extreme to perhaps hide the fear of appearing intelligent? Is there really such a stigma, or is it more to do with the lowest-denominator medium of television, and pandering to the TV audience?
I think the single biggest measure of IQ by this standard is if you happened to miss the entire event and had something better to do than watch TV.
Hopefully many of you will have no idea of what I'm referring to..!
Cheers,
Craig
(Channel 7 IQ score 126; I lost a few points over the course of the programme)
How prove you that in the great heap of your knowledge?
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Thank god I did.
Ignoring the fact that what should have been a 10 minute process took over an hour to deliver and then mark...and of course the inevitable half hour of commercials;...Thank the God of Remote Controls that I could fast forward over the hour's worth of Eddie McGuire & company's banal presentation, and the absolutely hideous comparison groups of blondes, kiwis, footy clubs and celebrities!
I haven't figured out whether the utter tedium and ocker banality was really a suave and subtle tongue-in-cheek send up of the whole process; or is this really a measure of how we see ourselves? Taking the piss and dumbing it down to such an extreme to perhaps hide the fear of appearing intelligent? Is there really such a stigma, or is it more to do with the lowest-denominator medium of television, and pandering to the TV audience?
I think the single biggest measure of IQ by this standard is if you happened to miss the entire event and had something better to do than watch TV.
Hopefully many of you will have no idea of what I'm referring to..!
Cheers,
Craig
(Channel 7 IQ score 126; I lost a few points over the course of the programme)
How prove you that in the great heap of your knowledge?
[%sig%]