"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message hlink.net...
"N2EY" wrote:

Some time back, I took a *practice* Extra test online. No
preparation. To make it more of a sporting course I did all
the math in my head - no calculator, no scratch paper. Took
me about 7-1/2 minutes start to finish, (snip)

Yep, but the online tests are easier.

Same question pools, though.

With most of them, all you have to
do click an answer directly under the question, not shade a small block on
an answer card with a pencil.

Same difference to me.

All that (reading the questions, answers, and
filling in the answer card) couldn't likely be done in eight minutes.

I could do it. And I'm no expert.

Of
course, anything is possible, so I won't say it isn't (which is why I said
it was "almost" impossible).

Go down that road far enough and you will invent the Infinite
Improbability Generator.

But I suspect you would agree such an
accomplishment would certainly be very rare.

I dunno. I know I could do it. Maybe I wouldn't get every single
question right when going full speed like that, but I could pass.

Did it ever occur to you that his persona here could be an act?

Nope. It's too consistent across many newsgroups over a relatively long
period of time. If it's an act, he should be in Hollywood.

I think it's an act, invented for the purpose. But even if it's not an
act, the written tests are not spelling or grammar tests.
"Intelligence" isn't a single-dimension quality. A person can be
brilliant in one area and have serious developmental problems in
others.

In fact, if you deny that someone who writes like Bruce could ace the
Extra written in eight minuites, then, by the same logic, you have to
deny the claim that someone could be brilliant in electronics but have
a difficult time with 5 wpm Morse Code.

but i think its all a act He puts on

73 de Jim, N2EY