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That experiment is not true. Once you are born, your IQ doesn't change, though you may get brain damaged.

To listen to rap you must be dumb in the first place.

To listen to classical music you must be smart in the first place.

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No Prozac does not make you smarter, but it makes you less of a Smartass
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To listen to rap you must be dumb in the first place.

To listen to classical music you must be smart in the first place.
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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 04:34
I've enjoyed some rap, and found some classical music extremely banal...I guess that just means I got my graduate degrees due to pity or something, huh?
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Originally posted by Rekkr Rekkr wrote:

That experiment is not true. Once you are born, your IQ doesn't change, though you may get brain damaged.

To listen to rap you must be dumb in the first place.

To listen to classical music you must be smart in the first place.

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Yes! That's exactly it. To claim that any music makes you more intelligent is obviously rubbish,but your cultural habits reveal your intelligence. If you're stupid you naturally gravitate towards stupid cultural expressions,and if you're intelligent you naturally gravitate towards intelligent cultural expressions. Classical music is intelligent music,ergo: people who listen to it are intelligent. Your cultural habits reveal your intellect. To gauge someone's intellect all you have to do is: Check their bookshelves and check their music collection.

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Yes we all pity you James
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Originally posted by Pixel Pirate Pixel Pirate wrote:

Classical music is intelligent music,ergo: people who listen to it are intelligent.

Water is wet, ergo: if it's wet it's water.

Billy Connolly is funny and swears a lot, ergo: people who listen to him are funny and swear a lot.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a violent film, ergo: people who watch it are violent.
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Points: 5187 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 16:44
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Billy Connolly is funny and swears a lot, ergo: people who listen to him are funny and swear a lot.

Well, yes actually.

What do you think,VC?

 



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Originally posted by Pixel Pirate Pixel Pirate wrote:

Your cultural habits reveal your intellect. To gauge someone's intellect all you have to do is: Check their bookshelves and check their music collection.

I just wanted to make sure you're being sarcastic...you are, aren't you?
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ME LISTERN REEL GOOD PROG,ME SMART WITH NU BRAYN NOW.

ME PASS 4TH GRADE AT SKUUL WITH NU BRAYN.

ME NEERLY FORTY!!!

 
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4th grade is considered college in Australia, right?

JUST KIDDING, I love aussies.

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EVEN WITHOUT THE "JUST KIDDING" I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OFFENDED JAMES

AFTER ALL WE DONT HAVE COLLEGES IN AUSTRALIA SO FOURTH GRADE WOULD BE UNIVERSITY
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Originally posted by Rekkr Rekkr wrote:

That experiment is not true. Once you are born, your IQ doesn't change, though you may get brain damaged.

To listen to rap you must be dumb in the first place.

To listen to classical music you must be smart in the first place.

Solved.

IQ tests do  not measure intelligence. They measure ability to pass IQ tests, which is pretty low on the list of essential survival skills for homo sapiens sapiens.

There does seem to be a correlation between people who believe that IQ actually means something and those who believe that one form of cultural expression is necessarily superior to another. I suspect that a lot of such individuals wear name tags at work and can't understand why their intrinsic superiority over the rest of humanity hasn't been recognised.

 
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to the already rich among us...'

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f**k Off Reed !!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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Originally posted by Velvetclown Velvetclown wrote:

f**k Off Reed !!!!!!!!!!!!! 

That's what I log on for - the kind of repartee you got at the Cafe Royal when Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw were holding court

'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom


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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2005 at 14:47
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by Velvetclown Velvetclown wrote:

f**k Off Reed !!!!!!!!!!!!! 

That's what I log on for - the kind of repartee you got at the Cafe Royal when Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw were holding court

I don't know about the Cafe Royal, but it does sound a lot like Tennesee Williams and Truman Capote.

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Not the Truman Capote I used to have dinner with monthly...
THIS IS ELP
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