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Intelligence i is not enough

MONA CHAREN

Every few months, thousands of sweaty and
in high schools
across the country, line up their carefully sharpened
pencils and new erasers, double-check to be sure
their watches are working, and dive into the
Scholastic Aptitude Test.

The SAT is usually the last in a long series of
intelligence and achievement tests American stu-
dents are subjected to from elementary. school on.
But new research is showing that the ability to
answer questions like “Car is to gasoline as human
is to .” reveals almost nothing about how
well a person is equipped to handle life.

The SAT proves neither intelligence nor capacity
for success — the test would never have identitied
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison or Donald Trump.

“IQ and success in living have little to do with
each other,” declares Dr. Seymour Epstein, psycho!-
ogist at the University of Massachusetts, “Being
intel-lectually gifted does not predict that you will
eam the most money or achieve the most recogni-
tion, even among college professors.”

Well, we've all known brilliant misfits who could
recite the Periodic Chart of the Elements from
memory yet couldn't manage to prevent their foun-

d the
qualities successful people share are not saying
intelligence i is They're just iB
thatit isn’t enough.

by studies of

are now
trying to pens new tests that will reveal not just
whether someone can find the correct square root of
x, but whether they understand the, roots of other
people's behavior,

Their findings may effect a profound change in
educational testing. The new research suggests that
intuition, feelings and insight may be better predic-
tors of lifetime success than stark intelligence.

A Boston University study of managers found
that those who were most successful tended to have
keen intuition about people's feelings and were able
to anticipate the emotional reactions of others. They
were also great listeners, attuned to their subordi-
nates’ feelings and needs,

If that sounds like*1960s touchy-feely sentimen-
tality, it is worth remembering that these studies

PaaS people who had grown wealthy and power- °

The message from the psychologists is that Ebe-
neezer Scrooge may score a 750 on the math ae
but he’s unlikely to become Scrooge

In fact, if Ralph Nader is correct, the SAT is

already useless since it predicts college performance
only half as well as high school grades do.
+ The secret to success is hidden somewhere inside
self-confidence. Dr, Albert Bandura of Stanford
University hints how to find it. “People’s belicfs
about their abilities have a profound effect on those
abilities,” he explains. “Ability is not a fixed Proper-
ty; there is huge variability in how you perform.”

Dr, Bandura's findings confirm what experience
suggests, A standardized test cannot measure inspi-
ration and therefore could never have predicted
Tom. Wolfe or Martin Luther King. Nor can it detect
warmth or humor,

An entire universe of human strengths lics
beyond the capacity of the SAT to test. And what of
those who score high? Is that meaningless? The
new research says it can be.

A good test taker, even with the 1Q of Albert Bin-
stein, can be undone by habits of mind like pes-
simism, discomfort in meetings, panic in

multi-national conglomerate.
While the new rescarch about success may sur-
prise the worshippers of 1Q who. write the SAT
questions, it shouldn't really surprise the rest of us,
We Americans have always had a healthy practical
streak — summed up in the saying, “If you’re so
smart, why aren’t you rich?” Given the most benign
that saying anticipates the

gists by recognizing that there are legiti

and private titions (such as the
belief that talking about an idea will prevent its
coming to fruition).

What all of this feverish research by psycholo-
gists has not yet revealed is whether these newly
discovered talents for life can be taught or tested.
But perhaps it shouldn't matter. In the cad, “success
in life” is a subjective judgment.

And the kids losing sleep over the SAT should be

crete measures of intelligence which have nothing
todo with tests.

g that even if they haven’t mas-
tered algebra, their r intuition and self-assurance may
someday make them rich.

What are the ingredients to a successful
ty newspaper?

" Wednesday, November 27, 1991

The Castlegar Sun

: Letters to the Editor

Freedom of the press over-used and ‘over-rated

Deor Editor:
“Freedom-of-the-press” —a
cliche I would not describe as

“ sacred; but rather as over-used and
$ ted. HT te A

information, How ironic. that they,
in tum, will totally ignore the rights
of the individual to Privacy when it
comes to gathering this i

d to obtain

When it comes to infringing on
rights and freedoms the media (all.

ive) is second to none. Grant-

and reporters wish to rely on the

“ Charter of Rights and Freedoms to

tion. Do have the ae to
trespass and harass shes

ed, there, is a world of difference

between a big city daily and a’
small town weekly. But; if the |

\"* protect their privacy and gath

for a big headline story

“* came along, would “freedom-of-

the-people” truly exist?
Name Withheld by Request

Who is

to blame?

Dear Editor:
In your November 23 edition,
, 8 fairly large ad was placed by
ICBC regarding rising Autoplan
Costs due to replacement of wind-
shields of “big compound state-
of-the-art” type of glass.
Perhaps there is another reason.
On the weekend of November

“23, my wife and I travelled to

* Kelowna via Rock Creek.
' From Castlegar to Rutland,

“| wherever sections of road were

sanded, the material used was
like pea gravel, and no matter -

| how careful we were (and other

drivers as well) the result was pit
marks, not only to the windshield,
but to other parts of the car.

Now who is to blame for this —
The Ministry of Highways, or the
maintenance conneeieet Are other

ina similar state of the at
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obituary
Sam William Postnikoff

On Tuesday, November 19,

Start with a heap of dedication, sifted together
with energy, vitality and of course community spirit.

Next, shake up a generous portion of local adver-
tisers and combine them with quality service, afford-
able rates and a commitment to total market
coverage. Add a dash of competitiveness for
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constant improvement.

Mix the above ingredients together before folding
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standing of one's abilities. Finally, add a heap of con-

fidence-covered-craftsmanship.

1991 Sam William Postnikoff
of Blueberry Creek passed
away at the age of 69 years.

Funeral Services were held
at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel
beginning on Friday, Novem-
ber 22, 1991 at 7:00 p.m. and
continued Saturday, November
23, 1991 at 10:00 a.m. with

began working at Cominco in
1948 and retired in 1982. He
enjoyed fishing, reading, walk-
ing, gardening and helping his
friends.

Mr. Postnikoff is survived
by his wife Mary of Blueberry,
two sons, James of Genelle and
Sam of Blueberry; one daugh-

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A Little Knowledge

1)Who wrote War and Peace?

2) To be conceited of doing one's duty is a sign of
how little one does it. Who said that?

3)By what name is British Honduras known, these
days?

4)Anathema. What is it?

5)Seventy-five years ago, the British. and German
fleets fought a major naval engagement in the North
Sea. By what name does history know. this battle?

ter, Marie Mather of Vancouver

and“six-grandchildren. He? was
Mr. Postnikoff was born on ‘ ‘predeceased by his parents and

December 30, 1921 at Champi- _his brothers, Bill, Mike and

on Creek, BC. He grew up ‘John.

there and married Mary Kaval- Funeral Arrangements are

off in 1944, They moved to under the direction of Castlegar

Blueberry Creek in 1956 and Funeral Chapel.

have lived there since. During

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By Don Addis

h.| Nigel
@ | Hannaford

Syndicated
Columnist

Strange but true department: It
caused some when the

included. At $30 million a copy,
you could have as many as you
wanted.

Now, the Russian Republic,
which has inherited the USSR’s
Mikoyan plant where the Mig is

made, is seeking foreign investment
to try and keep the Mig-29 program

alive. :
Jane's Defence Weekly for 16

USSR offered its Mig-29 jet fighter
to all comers, western countries

quote Vladimir Laptev,
Deputy Minister for the Soviet
Union's soon-to-be-disbanded Min-

istry of Aviation Industry to that
effect. He added that there are also
some foreign-participation opportu-
nities for providing the next jet
trainer for the Soviet air force.

Meanwhile, Boris Yeltsin has
decreed a twelve month moratorium
on all nuclear tests within the Rus-
sian Republic and ordered the clo-
sure of the Novaya Zemlya nuclear
testing ground. |

bee you're broke, you're

see

I'm still trying to work out how
Sheila Copps managed to make
David Duke out of Preston Man-
ning. It is hardly the same ‘thing to
suggest that if Quebec wants to
leave we shouldn't stop them, as it
is to propose the domination of one
trace by another.

Still, Ms Copps has left me bob-
bing in her wake before. I just wish
I was as cocksure of anything as she
is of everything.

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Getting it straight from the heart

‘At first blush, the Liberal Party’s®
“thinkers conference” looked like
one of those Sixties rock ‘n’ roll
Tevivals.

Mike
Duffy

Syndicated
Columnist

JC and the Sunshine Band —
featuring the stars who brought you
such hits a di

forever.”

Twice before, when they’ve been
in opposition, similar meetings fea-
turing non-partisan “thinkers” gave
the Liberals policy ideas (unem-
ploy i an di )
which they implemented when they
again took power.

But as that aging rocker Bob
Dylan says, “the times, they are a
changin.”

The Liberals hoped this retreat
on the shores of the Ottawa River
would give them ideas as profound
as those developed at the two earlier
i but ideas that are suited

ment insurance and all those great
Crown Corporations!

Revival in this case doesn’t mean
just a re-has‘of what Liberal gov-
emments have given us in the past
— it means strengthening Jean
Chretien’s hold on the party's poli-
cy direction and his control over a

* bitterly divided caucus.

‘Chretien told delegates he called
this meeting because “I want the
Liberal Party to present to Canadi-

“ans policies for.the future, not nos-

talgia for a‘past that has gone

to the *90's.

Chretien signalled he knows the
old Liberal answers won't work
when he said, ‘Stop the world I
want to get off" is not what we want
to offer the people of Canada."

And guess what?

One invited speaker after another

echoed Chretien’s theme.

“Canada is part of the global
economy, and as much as we might
like to mun and hide, we have ‘to
compete with the rest of the world,”

said Peter Nicholson, senior vice-

president of the Bank of Nova Sco-
tia,

It is definitely not the message
many in Chretien's caucus want to
hear. :

Listening to these anti-American
ultra-nationalists hammer the gov-
emment day after day in the Com-
mons, one gets the impression the
entire Liberal caucus is determined
to become a carbon copy of the
NDP.

This weekend Chretien finally
showed where:he stands: “A strong

with gi ing pe
is an ial
for a progressive and generous sys-
tem of social security,” he said.

Pink Liberals like Lloyd Axwor-
thy and Herb Gray want to kill the
Free Trade Agreement, lower the
value of the Canadian dollar and
abandon the GST.

Even though ending free trade
; would mean morc U.S. trade
’ harassment for Canadian producers,

lowering the value of the dollar «

, would mean, higher ‘inflation and

‘interest rates‘and. abandoning..the: >
GST would leave: ‘the government

with a $25 billion revenue shortfall
at a time when it can’t meet its cur-
rent obligations.

It’s easy to promise Canadians a
Liberal government would protect
us from the difficult choices we
face, and ever since the last election
Liberals have been doing it.

But this weekend Chretien

. Showed he knows protectionism

won't work. “We are not alone in
the world, and we cannot build
walls around us,” he said.

It was the kind of “straight from
the heart” talk Canadians want to
hear.

Prairie farmers arrived here’on
Tuesday for a two-day farm-aid lob-
bying blitz,

Will the Grits have the guts. to
say “we're out of money and can’t
afford more’ than the $800 million
farmers have already been promised
for this year?

Or will they mimic the NDP, and
promise the moon, Just to avoid
having to say “no” to a special
interest group. |

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BYLAW 593

order to afford all persons who believe that their i
property is affected by the following amendment to
Official Community Plan Bylaw 509 an opportunity to be
heard or to present written submissions respecting matters
contained in this amendment.

The intent of Bylaw 593 is to, amend the text of Official
-Community Plan annexed to Bylaw 509 as Schedule 1 by
adding provisions for Development Permit Areas and
designating Lot 7, except part‘included in Reference Plan
48271-I, District Lot 4598, Kootenay District, Plan 783
-(1502 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C.) and Parcel A
(See 216443-I) of Block 8, District Lot 4598, K: ry
District, Plan 783 (1530- 1540 Columbia Avenue,
Castlegar, B.C.) as Development Permit Areas.

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