Re: The price of oil

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> On 01.10.2022 17.50, Merlyne wrote:
>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>> 
>>> On 30.09.2022 18.31, Merlyne wrote:
>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>>
>>>>> On 29.09.2022 12.44, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>> Soemtimes you have go beyond yourself.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> That sounds intensely uncomfortable...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> BeH
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some relationships are worth it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Probably, but I wouldn't want to appear clingy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, you're overly concerned with what other people think of you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Absolutely. That's why I prefer to be remote an mysterious. That
>>>>> way what they think is most likely wrong. Which in some ways
>>>>> possibly is an improvement over knowing about me...
>>>>>
>>>> I doubt that.
>>>> But maybe. I'll probably never know for sure since you rebuffed my
>>>> efforts to talk to you outside the froup.
>>>
>>> I did? it does sound like something I would do...
>> 
>> Now I have a complex.
> 
> A complex what?

A complex feeling that I'm not likeable.

> 
>>>> I bet if you polled everyone who's ever met me, half of them would
>>>> say I'm genius-level smart and half would say I'm quite possibly
>>>> the stupidest person they've ever met.
>>>
>>> Speaking of smrt: I took the on-line "just for fun" Mensa self-test
>>> recently. I seem to have mislaid about 10 points since I was
>>> youngish. I seem to no longer qualify for membership, although it
>>> did say old people could add a few points to the score.
>>>
>> 
>> I've never done a Mensa test. I don't think I would do well on the
>> word- play type of questions. I'm more math-brained. And then there's
>> that whole thing of not wanting to be part of a club that would have
>> me as a member.
> 
> Proper serious IQ-tests don't use text-based questions at all. Too
> much cultural bias. It's all drawings with specific pattern like:
> What goes into the empty field:
>     .   ..   ...
>     :   ::   :::
>     '   ''   ___  stuff like that.
> 
> I've never considered joining the club - I just like to know I'm not 
> getting completely stupid. Also Mensa is a silly concept; the members 
> have literally nothing in common except being good at solving
> riddles... 
> 
>> when I was at uni, I got a job one summer working with a psychology
>> lab. I was basically a guinea pig for the summer. It paid really
>> well. I got to work with a hypnotist which adult me is now nervous
>> about. One of the experiments they also did was to assess how alcohol
>> impairs one's brain. I had to take a standard IQ test and then have a
>> drink and then take another IQ test etc.  My scores kept getting
>> better up to and including the 3rd drink but after that, it was
>> chaos.I'm not a psychologist, but I can see that drunk people
>> wouldn't give a shit about taking a stupid test.
> 
> ...or not being able to read the instructions. The getting better with
> each test is a thing, though. Being familiar with the type of problem 
> the tests contains helps significantly.
> 

At work, I have to go through second language assessment every 5 years 
to supervise since I'm not fully bilingual. The reading and writing 
tests are multiple guess exams. When in doubt, pick B. They have these 
workshops to prepare for the exams which is basically doing practice 
tests all day. Eventually patterns appear.