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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: alt.config
- Subject: Re: Intelligence & personality
- Message-ID: <mike_steiner-161192155212@192.35.50.131>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:53:30 GMT
- References: <BxsBxs.Mn8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <BxsBxs.Mn8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
- ksdavis@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Karleenus Schwartz Davis) wrote:
- >
- > There's been a newsgroup proposed in the alt.* hierarchy (currently
- > being discussed in alt.config, the anarchic equivalent to news.groups)
- > for the discussion of personality typing systems, which I believe is a
- > bit narrowly defined. It appears, however, that it's on its way to
- > being created as alt.personality or some such, because support for
- > SOME group of this nature is overwhelming.
- >
- > Several people followed up to the proposal suggesting that the group
- > include other things like IQ testing as well as personality testing
- > (mentioning "psychometrics" as the appropriate word to include all
- > these typing/testing systems), so I added my voice to the fray,
- > suggesting alt.psychology.psychometrics.
- >
- > Would you participate in a group for discussions of personality as
- > related to intelligence and IQ testing, or, alternatively, would you
- > like for there to be a group where you can send people who want to
- > discuss it, or are you quite happy with the way things are here? If
- > you do support the name alt.psychology.psychometrics, mention it
- > loudly and clearly in your followup, because alt.config is a noisy
- > place.
- >
- > (If you do followup to this article, watch the Newsgroups: line --
- > followups are being sent to alt.config. Change it if your comments
- > are more appropriate for rec.org.mensa.)
- >
- > Excuse the interruption. ;-)
-
- Karleenus's idea is very good. I support alt.psychology.psychometrics.
-
- alt.psychology.psychometrics alt.psychology.psychometrics
- alt.psychology.psychometrics alt.psychology.psychometrics
- alt.psychology.psychometrics alt.psychology.psychometrics
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