On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:12:47 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

When I was a senior design engineer at Marconi Space and Defence, we
*never* hired 1sts, because they invariably couldn't find the hot end
of a soldering iron with both hands......................

I was at college with one chap who asked me during a practical session
which way round to insert a resistor (I told him to put the end with
tolerance band nearest to the edge of the PCB :-)).

AIUI he went on to get a 1st, (I didn't).

QED. His name wasn't Steve Green, was it? :-)

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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:12:40 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Nick Gorham wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Nick Gorham wrote:

DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.
Many hands make light work.
Tim seems to have lost control of his thought processes.

WTF has success got to do with
intelligence??????????????????????????

WTF, has the ability to pass exams to do with intelligence either ?

There will be a very high correlation between very good exam results
and intelligence. There'll be statistical anomalies, just like there
are in many things.

Maybe, I don't know, and I suspect you don't either, do you have a
reference to research that shows that ?

I don't bother with giving references to things that are so obvious.

In other words, you're just blowing self-congratulatory smoke up your
arse. In fact, there is only a very limited corellation, as I have
previously noted.

Example: David Beckham, rich as fk, highly successful football
player, thick as pig****.

But very very good at what he does.

No argument there. But intelligent? Not in a million years. Sorry.
That's just the definition of the word 'intelligent':

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/defi...1301&dict=CALD

"the ability to learn, understand and make judgments or have opinions
that are based on reason"

Indeed, and Becks has a brilliant *footballing* brain, which is why
he's captained the team on so many occasions. That he is not
*academically* gifted, and not articulate, is irrelevant.

OTOH, you appear to be an overqualified geek with little practical
ability. Not what the world would regard as 'intelligent', and you
certainly appear to have cognitive difficulties, judging by your posts
in this thread.

Er, an exact match for doing well in exams, I'd say. I'm sure you'll
disagree, but you'd be wrong.

And you would be right, I have noithing against exams, good luck to
you on that, my point though, is IMHO, that if the above description
was
"The ability to remember, repeat and select the correct response based
on selective learning"

Then yes I would say that it correlated directly to passing exams,
but I just don't see how your description has any bearing on exam
passing. What part does understanding play ?

BTW, why do you always put a space before a question-mark?

Did you fail to understand his written communication ? If not, why
does it matter? Or are you simply avoiding the question?

, what part opinion ? The
last thing you want to do when answering a exam question is express
your own opinion.

If you look at the definition, it says

"make judgments *OR* have opinions that are based on reason"

You seem to have little ability to do either...................

I learnt that years ago. Simple way (in general) of
passing exams, find who has set the paper, find what books they have
written on the subject, read said books, repeat their views in the
exam answer, but slightly paraphrased.

Repeat their views in the exam? I take it you didn't study engineering.
Engineering exams are 95% maths problems. Repeating the views of
lecturers isn't involved.

Hmmm, looks like I did get that attribution wrong. Oh well............

The problem with you people
is that you've written me off before I've even started. But, by
definition, I've got a 50% chance of being above average!

However, on the evidence provided by your posts, you have a 90%
chance of being an over-qualified and inexperienced geek who'll be a
drain on any engineering company.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:12:40 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Example: David Beckham, rich as fk, highly successful football
player, thick as pig****.

But very very good at what he does.

No argument there. But intelligent? Not in a million years. Sorry.
That's just the definition of the word 'intelligent':

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/defi...1301&dict=CALD

"the ability to learn, understand and make judgments or have
opinions that are based on reason"

Indeed, and Becks has a brilliant *footballing* brain, which is why
he's captained the team on so many occasions.


Beckham probably has the most accurate right-foot in the world (pinging
long balls, accurate free kicks and crosses); that's why he's so good.
But I wouldn't say he's got a footballing brain that's anything special.
A good footballing brain is one that can read things in the play that
others can't. Examples of people with brilliant footballing brains are
Gazza and Rooney.


That he is not
*academically* gifted, and not articulate, is irrelevant.


Only if you grossly distort the meaning of the word 'intelligent'.


The problem with you people
is that you've written me off before I've even started. But, by
definition, I've got a 50% chance of being above average!

However, on the evidence provided by your posts, you have a 90%
chance of being an over-qualified and inexperienced geek who'll be a
drain on any engineering company.


If that were the case then recent-graduates would never get a job in
engineering companies. But recent graduates do get jobs in engineering
companies.

Oh well, yet another nonsensical post from Pinkerton the dribbling
buffoon -- nowt new there....


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"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
...

Example: David Beckham, rich as fk, highly successful football player,
thick as pig****.

Right. But at least he is in gainful employment. I don't suppose you know
what that is.

"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
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I've shown my exam results, so obviously intelligent. How about you?

What's that expression? Oh yes, idiot savant.

A high IQ demonstrates nothing more than the ability to pass IQ tests. Good
exam results have absolutely nothing to do with intelligence; they have more
to do with having a good memory.

What really counts is getting out there and actually DOING it. Give it a go.

"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
...

BTW, why do you always put a space before a question-mark?


That's a bit bloody cheap, even for you.

"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
...

If that were the case then recent-graduates would never get a job in

Well, since you took someone to task over the space before his question
mark, let's equally cheap-shot you and question the use of the hyphen in
there.

God, but you're fun.

Stu Dapples wrote:
"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
...

BTW, why do you always put a space before a question-mark?



That's a bit bloody cheap, even for you.



I think I may just manage to survive that viscous attack :-)

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"Life has surface noise" - John Peel 1939-2004

Richard L wrote:

Ah, that'll be why you don't like people judging intelligence by
qualifications then. FFS.....

The Swiss Federal Railways (on the Italian side) seem to be
making a good many appearances in DSWTFM's posts at the moment.
No doubt they are grateful for all this publicity.

LOL

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:28:26 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:12:40 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

The problem with you people
is that you've written me off before I've even started. But, by
definition, I've got a 50% chance of being above average!

However, on the evidence provided by your posts, you have a 90%
chance of being an over-qualified and inexperienced geek who'll be a
drain on any engineering company.

If that were the case then recent-graduates would never get a job in
engineering companies. But recent graduates do get jobs in engineering
companies.

Still unable to think logically, I see. You're not a *recent*
graduate, you've been hiding in distance education for so long that
you are pretty much unemployable outside of the fast food industry.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering