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Skriven 2008-05-31 12:03:49 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 16508 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
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31 May 08 10:53, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Ward Dossche:

 JB> 3.Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?

 Mv>> Three in every four years.

How the hell did you figure that!? Four years? Hmmmm. Oh yeah, every 4
years we have a month that has an extra day in it to compensate for the
1/4 day longer than the calendar says it takes to circumnavigate the Sun.
So, that'd make that month have 29 days. Still, I think the question was
asking was; how many months have 28 days in them?

 WD>> Wrong. Every month has 28 days.

 MvdV> Really?

Really. Trust him on that answer.

 MvdV> So when you were in fifth grade (if there is something equivalent
 MvdV> to that in Belgium) and the teacher asked "How many days in June?",
 MvdV> fifteen would have been a correct answer?

Ahhh, no. June has 30 days in it. It also has 28 days.

 MvdV> Oh c'mon...

It's really a simple question that even an elementary school student (5th
grader) could answer. How many months have 28 days in them?

 Mv>>> JB> 4.How many outs are there in an inning?

 Mv>>> Get me a fifth grader. I have no idea what an "out" or an "inning"
 Mv>>> is.

Just for the fun of learning, Google 'inning'...

 WD>> Between 3 and 6.

Wrong. See, Ward's almost never right. The correct answer is between 5 and
7, or to be exact, 6...

 MvdV> Whatever. This was presented as an intelligence test.

And you failed to properly answer the simple questions.

 MvdV>  The question has nothing to do with intelligence but all with
 MvdV> knowlegdge about a game

28 days in a month is a game? Tell us how it's played.

 MvdV>  that it not played here and hence knowledge about it has no
 MvdV> survival value.

Knowing how many months have 28 days in them isn't a survival issue? What
if you only got paid on the 28th every month? Wouldn't it be awfully hard
to maintain a living if you only got paid once every four years?

As for the question being one of intelligence, you even failed that one.

 Mv>>> JB> 10.How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?

 Mv>>> One of each sex.

 WD>> Moses never built an ark, it was Noah.

 MvdV> Noah did not build an ark either. It is myth.

None the less, there is a very well known story about a man named Noah who
built and ark. Whether it's a myth or not wasn't the question.

 MvdV>  Someone who takes the Bible as authoritive in an intelligence test
 MvdV> has already failed it.

The bible reads like a story book. It is probably one of the oldest story
books around. There's no reason to have to believe what you read, but just
about everyone has read or heard about that particular story in their life
time.

Dancing around the point of whether it's real or not, isn't the action of
someone who is supposed to be smart.

                R\%/itt



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