From: chi@oyster.micro.umn.edu (Ed Huai-hsin Chi)
Subject: Re: Calendars and Brains
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:27:10 GMT

In article <ADA.92Nov10125351@zip.larc.nasa.gov> ada@zip.larc.nasa.gov (Anthony Arviola) writes:
>>   Now, as to the questions asked of the models by Mademoiselle
>>   magazine, here they are:
[questions delayed to the end of article...]

>>   According to the article Elle came in first, the college
>>   post-graduates last.

>I wonder how the "smart" readers of this newsgroup did with this
>test (aimed at a model's intellect).  Ready to return your degrees 
>guys and gals?  I would if this were the only gauge of intelegence.

I agree.  This questionaire is obviously biased toward people w/ a lot
of traveling experience, and who says you have to learn how to speak
french?

>I guess my point is that this is not an intellegence test.  The questions
>are truly biased towards models.  I'm not saying that models are not
>smart, but this test doesn't tell the investigator anything.

Exactly....  I don't mind being exposed as a stupid asshole, so I'll
try to answer these questions.  To be a fair, I like to establish my
"so-called" intelligence level.  I am a Chinese Taiwanese student
studying at the University of Minnesota Computer Science department.
I came to the United States four years ago as a high school student.
I am in my junior year here at U of Minn., and have gotten all A's for
 my classes.  Also, I graduated from Minneapolis South High School as
 a valedictorian with a 4.0 average.  I would like to let those
records speak for itself.  (seriously, I am not bragging..  I am just
trying to establish an indictor here.)

>   1) What are the names of the two airports in Paris?

how the hell am I suppose to answer that?  I have never been to Paris.
But I do know that the airport terminal here is called "H. H. H.
Terminal".  And the airport in Taipei is called "Cheng-Chen
International Airport."

>   2) What is the name of the square in front of the big church
>   in the center of Milan?

I am sorry, but I've never been to Milan either.  Have heard of Milan,
 but have never visited.

>   3) What is the French word for shoe?

Don't know it in French, but I do know it in Chinese, Taiwanese,
German and English.  Does that count for anything?

>   4) Which architect designed the new glass pyramids in front
>   of the Louvre in Paris?

Don't know.  Never been to the museum.  I would like to next year
though.

>   5) How many calories are in a banana?

Why?  How many calories are there in one bowl of rice?  Who remembers
this kind of statistics?

>   6) Who is the designer behind the COMME des GARCONS label?
>   The Perry Ellis label?  The Chanel label?

What? I have to be a fashion designer to be intelligent?

>   7) Math question: If you earn $5,000 in one day and only pay
>   your agency 10 percent, how much money will you receive
>   before taxes?

Now, this I can answer.  $5,000 * .10 = $500
so $5000 - $500 = $4,500

Am I right?  :)

>   8) What color is ecru? (Claudia Schiffer answered with,
>   "Broken white? I'm just guessing, wondering if it's the same
>   in English as it is in French, which is derived from a word
>   in Latin.")

I have no idea.  I am taking ceremics wheel throwing and electronic
music: literature, history and principles.  And I have taken
photography here at the Art Department.  So I have taken a good number
of art classes, but we have never been required to remember colors.

>   9) Who is Anna Wintour?

Beats me....

>   10) Which poet said, "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty"?

Don't know, but I can quote quite a few chinese poems....  Would this
investigator understand any of these chinese poems?


Enough said...  It's bullshit.  No basis for such a test...


Ed Chi
chi@mermaid.micro.umn.edu


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