…or controviersial intelligences? This Sunday (at 8pm), the CBC will host a “nation-wide intelligence test” called Test the Nation. They will pit various groups (surgeons, fitness instructors, tattoo artists, millionaires, DJs, etc.) against each other. And against you! You can play along at home, and eventually they will have results divided by region of the country, by gender, by occupation, by…everything. You get the idea. Surely this will make more enemies (let’s be polite and say “rivals”) than friends. We all know about the “two solitudes” of Canada, but this may well create ten, fifty, as many as thirty million solitudes! Just as well my old competitive self is out of the country. To remind you of the importance of “keeping on thinking”, here is one of their fun facts:
Summer vacation means brain drain. Two independent studies show an IQ decline over the summer, increasing with every month out of school.
Well, I’ve been out of school for more years than I can count (not a good sign), so surely this bodes ill for me and my precious neurons.
[UPDATE Mar. 21, 2007 -- the results are in!]