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Originally posted by greymule
I know a guy who scored 800 on the SAT math (40 years ago, when it was much harder), fell just short of 800 on the English SAT and the English achievement, and was graduated from a US News & World Report "Top 25" college.
He has a remarkable vocabulary and facility with words. University professors come to him for advice regarding articles they are submitting to peer-reviewed journals.
He was also a pretty good ballplayer.
Remarkably, however, though he has read ASA's DEFO rule over and over, he claims that he still does not understand it.
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The only thing I have to say about your friend is, "so what!"
He has a high IQ and attended a "top 25" college. Oooooohh, should I be impressed? Give me a break! My cousin is working on his 20-something year in college as a professional student and does very well for himself, on campus. Take him out into the real world and he is totally useless.
I know folks working on their PhD's that need a pencil and paper to subtract 77 from 100 and still not get it the first time.
I'm sorry, but testing intelligent and being smart are not necessarily synonymous and in the real world the distance between the two can be as vast as it may be narrow.
Like it or not, and you tell us every year about the faults of this publication, it is not produced to satisfy literary purist or win any awards. It's purpose is to maintain a structured set of rules by which the ASA-sanctioned game is to be governed. The rules themselves demand the book be considered as a whole, not by chapter and verse.
One thing is for sure, maybe your buddy should avoid umpiring softball
JMHO,