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03-02-2006, 10:17 PM
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Re: Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students?
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As we get older, we become more socially biased in our answers. Riddle. A beggar had a brother who died, but the brother who died did not have any brothers. How can this be? [/ QUOTE ] The beggar's a girl. 
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03-02-2006, 02:50 PM
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Re: Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students?
<font color="white">Nothing. Took me about 30 seconds. Keep it simple: God is the extreme of goodness and the Devil is the extreme of evil so nothing is more extreme than the two of those. </font>
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03-02-2006, 02:52 PM
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Re: Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students?
<font color="white">There is no answer to the riddle. "Nothing" is likely the answer the kids came up with, but not all of the statements made about "it" are true.</font>
The kids get it because they do not realize that at least one of the statements about the answer, "the poor have it," is not actually a true statement about the answer. This is a poorly constructed riddle with no real answer, there is little chance that this was actually the focus of an academic study. These kinds of e-mails, like the Red Hammer e-mail or the "I love you, send this to 50 people you love in 10 minutes or God will strike you down with Fire and Brimstone" e-mail, are a virus on society that destroy countless hours of productivity at workplaces around the globe.
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03-02-2006, 03:14 PM
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Re: Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students?
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These kinds of e-mails, are a virus on society that destroy countless hours of productivity at workplaces around the globe. [/ QUOTE ] Good thing I don't work behind a computer.
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03-02-2006, 03:39 PM
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Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students? [/ QUOTE ] Between now and that day that each dies, a four-year-old will learn a lot more than a Harvard graduate. Does this make the four-year-old smarter?
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03-02-2006, 04:28 PM
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Re: Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students?
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[ QUOTE ] Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students? [/ QUOTE ] Between now and that day that each dies, a four-year-old will learn a lot more than a Harvard graduate. Does this make the four-year-old smarter? [/ QUOTE ] It is an excellent question but i have to say no. No I don't think this has anything to do with being smart but rather the access to information. Obviously 4-yr-olds right will have far greater access to information that I did. But this does not garauntee them to become smarter, they merely have the potential to become smarter. Take my 14 year old cousin for example, he doesn't know anything about anything. Ask him simple stuff like what the UN stands for, or what who the Secretary of State and he won't know. But his excuse is that he can find out within 10 minutes by looking it up on the internet. Ofcourse this does not constitute intelligence because no thought process will go into looking up information. For example, if I were to ask him what the effects of increased interest rates will do to the economy he'll be able to tell me the answer within 10mins but he won't understand why it happens. And without understanding the process he will never be able to add on to any theories. Essentially he'll only be able to mimic information but never be able develop his own information through creative thinking
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03-02-2006, 04:12 PM
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Re: Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students?
Ive been told that 3rd graders are better at completing this pattern than those with PhDs:
A___EF_HI_KLM.... _BCD__G__J Complete the alphabet with each letter appearing in either the top or bottom row EDIT: underscores just there to aid with spacing, they have no affect on the problem
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