Intelligence and the ASA rule book

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Originally posted by greymule
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?

No. Many people test high and attend good colleges. You and I undoubtedly know quite a few. We may have done the same things ourselves. I cited those things simply as evidence that the guy is not stupid.

Never said or even insinuated he was stupid.

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.

Yes, there are those people. Bell Labs had a theoretical physicist who made all kinds of important discoveries and even won a Nobel prize, but they had to have someone travel with him so he wouldn't get lost in the airport. They had another genius who, when he walked, always did so backwards. They had to tell him it was time to go home, or he'd work night and day, unaware of the time. And supposedly Einstein used to forget where he lived and the police would drive him home. My friend is not like that. The U.S. Air Force would not have let him fly B-52s if he was.

Bad analogy. I use to work a store in P'cola across the street from an appartment complex where a handful of the Blue Angels lived and were regular customers. They drive jets at an unbelievable speed and very close range, but there were a couple of guys I wouldn't trust figuring out the check at the restaurant.

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.

It is impossible to score high on tests accidently. Nobody who scores high is stupid. However, such a person can be brilliant in certain areas and remarkably weak in others. But these people are the exception, not the rule.

As for the ASA rule book, I don't expect it to be well written. But it shouldn't be so badly written.

Scoring high on a test means one thing, the individual tests well. Intelligent, most likely, but I know people who couldn't pass a test if their life depended on it and they were more intelligent than a couple of Rhodies I know. Wasn't it the Bandit that said, "It all depends where you are standing as to how intelligent you are"?

Meanwhile, I don't believe the ASA rule book is that poorly written. I have no problem with it, but then again, maybe that's because I'm not a literary person.

I know the game and the rules. I utilize that knowledge with the schools, clinics and experience I have attained over the years and use that in conjunction with the rule book to work the game.

The rule book is NOT a "How to" book you can pick up at Home Depot and go out and work a softball game. I suggust your friend attend a few clinics and then reread Rule 4, in whole. Then POE 15 and then Rule 4 again. See if he gets it then.

Mike