From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 09:13:50 MDT
Too literal, again. :)
I probably should have used the word "analogous" rather than "akin".
What I meant was, the ability to come to a snap decision is analogous to using the fast-twitch muscle cells.
The presumption is that a faster answer is better, along with the notion that there's one correct answer.
NO credit is given for thinking, only for answering.
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Michael writes
>
> > I'd go further, and say that IQ might be measuring something akin to "strength
> > of fast-twitch muscles".
>
> It's been tried many times to establish a correlation between IQ and
> reflex speed, but with no success. (Well, if I recall correctly, you
> would expect a minor correlation because quite unhealthy people would
> have a tendency to score low on either test for reasons actually
> having nothing to do with their normal tendencies.)
>
> Lee
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