[Taxacom] oh dear...

[Stephen Thorpe]

Perhaps we should draft a questionnaire entitled "calculate your shallowness index", with such question as:

(1) do you prefer to (a) improve your level of education by reading and observing nature, or (b) spend all your time socialising and indulging in chitchat ...

Two slogans:
(1) obsession is just a negative spin put on things by those who don't give a damn about anything...
(2) madness - bah! It's all in the mind!

BTW: another one of my "nice" images of nature in action: http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parisolabis_with_nematode.jpg
I bet this earwig had a stomach ache!

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Lammers [lammers at uwosh.edu]
Sent: Monday, 5 October 2009 3:21 p.m.
To: TaxaCom
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] oh dear...

No, I think it's accurate.  (I got a 32.)  Boring ordinary people think autism is a disability.  Maybe not necessarily so.  Maybe "autism" is another word for "incredibly focused and interested in furthering knowledge instead of brainless bandinage with twits and fools."
;-)

Seriously, I think the questions merely select for people who are different that what the phrasers of the questions see as "the norm".  Being autistic is one way to vary from the norm.  Being a taxonomist is another.  Similar symptoms, different causes.

Tom Lammers

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009 6:02 pm
Subject: [Taxacom] oh dear...
To: TaxaCom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>

> feeling particularly misanthropic and ill disposed towards humanity
> and the planet in general at the moment and managed to score a very
> comfortable 36 (!) on:
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html
>
> Gut feeling is that the test is skewed towards the mass of boring
> people in the world and that taxonomists, nomenclaturists,
> systematists, collections managers, biodiversity informaticians,
> ICBN/ICZN junkies and taxacom subscribers would lie several standard
> deviations outside the control group...  :)
>
> jim
>
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