Sally wrote:
Jenny Kaye wrote: <If Vila *was* an Alpha Grade then he should have been bright enough to "fail" any test. It's not that difficult to fail an IQ test if you know what sort of answers the examiners are looking for.>
If they've been running the tests for long enough (and it does appear the system is entrenched, from the sheer casualness with which it's mentioned on-screen) surely the organisers would have come up with something a bit more subtle than that? (OTOH, it *is* a totalitarian dictatorship, not normally known for their subtlety).
Well the good old American government has been running IQ tests since the 1930's, and they still haven't worked out a way of avoiding racial and class bias in the grading. Why should the Federation be any better?
<Who, or what, is a "Toothy"?>
One Del Tarrant. Christened in honour of one of his most - errr -
shining
attributes, that blindingly perfect smile.
Oh, I thought you ment Avon, because he had sort of buck teeth didn't he?
Jenny
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