RE: Qualifications for an off shore writer?

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

"Native computing power" can be expressed only if one has the tools
required to do so, and it can be assessed only by what one has done.
Since one gets the tools to express native computing power only from
education (formal or informal), it doesn't make much sense to talk about
native computing power apart from education. On top of that, IQ actually
is mutable. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ#Mutability.

Leonard

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Maechtlen [mailto:techwriter -at- covad -dot- net] 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 8:38 AM
To: Leonard C. Porrello
Cc: TECHWR-L; jleer -at- leertech -dot- net
Subject: Re: Qualifications for an off shore writer?


Depends on definitions of "smarts".
AFIK, education doesn't change our native compute power.
It should change our skills in using that native capacity.

If our ability (to use our native compute power) is improved through
training and on-board storage of pertinent information, then an educated
person 'should' perform better where intelligence is needed?


cheers
Jay


Leonard C. Porrello wrote:
 <snip>
> Even so, where "education" is, "the act or process of ... acquiring
general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and
generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature
life," isn't the statement a bit of an oxymoron?
>
> Leonard
>
>   

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