not2sharp
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How about an anecdote:
Back in the 1950s and 60s science had embrassed the IQ test, and researchers were running around trying to to use their new tool to draw conclusions. There was an anthropologist who was trying to find the most primitive living branch of man. The more so; after administering numerous tests, he was convinced that the aboriginal culture in Autralia was precisely what he had been searching for. They had consistenly scored lower then any other known group. So with the results and data in the bag, he loaded up his truck and headed back towards town.
Unfortunately, his truck broke down along the way, leaving him stranded in the middle of a desert. With no other option he set off along the trail to try to walk towards civilization. But, in that intense heat, it wasn't long before dehydration took hold; within a couple of days he was too far gone to continue and could barely lift himself from the ground. He was convinced the end was near.
Fortunately, a couple of aboriginies found him by the side of the road. They looked at each other; then at the prostrate man laying before them; then one of them pulled out a nearby bush and poured a generous amount of water into the man's mouth that had been trapped in the plant's tuberous roots. The aboriginies couldn't understand what kind of idiot would chose to die from dehydration while inches away from a plentiful water supply.
n2s
Back in the 1950s and 60s science had embrassed the IQ test, and researchers were running around trying to to use their new tool to draw conclusions. There was an anthropologist who was trying to find the most primitive living branch of man. The more so; after administering numerous tests, he was convinced that the aboriginal culture in Autralia was precisely what he had been searching for. They had consistenly scored lower then any other known group. So with the results and data in the bag, he loaded up his truck and headed back towards town.
Unfortunately, his truck broke down along the way, leaving him stranded in the middle of a desert. With no other option he set off along the trail to try to walk towards civilization. But, in that intense heat, it wasn't long before dehydration took hold; within a couple of days he was too far gone to continue and could barely lift himself from the ground. He was convinced the end was near.
Fortunately, a couple of aboriginies found him by the side of the road. They looked at each other; then at the prostrate man laying before them; then one of them pulled out a nearby bush and poured a generous amount of water into the man's mouth that had been trapped in the plant's tuberous roots. The aboriginies couldn't understand what kind of idiot would chose to die from dehydration while inches away from a plentiful water supply.
n2s