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 Jokainen ihminen on hyvä jossakin.

Johanna

Gardening and music

 Hi everybody, i do not want to insult anyone. I work part time and i have a big garden and today i have cut the grass and then i have dug up and cut a tree root. I had a man here with a dry earth dredger and  he did an excellent job, but then there are a couple of roots left, which he did not see. I dig up a couple of roots so i can use the mower where he have dug with the machine.

I will not have so much flowers, but i am going to farm vegetables. I have bought a couple ofminigreen houses too.

I think i have to rent him again for next year. Donut keeps me company in the garden.
 I have time to work with music in the evening. I study italian through internet and then i am going to study italian in Italy at an italian school. My dream is to teach italian in the future. I have left one of my musical works for a concert and then i have to send some of my other musical works to a publisher. Now i orchestrate a work for a smaller orchester. The musical work has to be "perfect and optimal".

I met a man from Italy on a market, i told him in italian that i am finnish and this italian man began to speak finnish with me, he had studied in Rouvaniemi, what a coincidence, hi, hi.

I have more logical drawings on my mind, but i have been to tired to put my ideas on a paper and i have to compose to increase my musical production too.

My voice is excellent for classical singing, i could probably sing jazz well too. It is very difficult to find good jazzsingers, you have to have a  strong voice to sing jazz well. Lisa Stansfield has an excellent voice for jazz, i think.

Ciao, Johanna

Thoughts about iq tests.

 Hi, i am interested in cognitive psychology and questions about intelligence and iq testing. I am also interested in questions about creativity and i would like to share some of my thoughts with you.

It is difficult to measure intelligence, iq test might be one method to measure intelligence, but then ihave a lot of questions about what an iq test measures and i understand why my thoughts are not welcome among the iq test followers.

There are also famous scientists who have not had a very high score on iq tests and their "low" iq scores have also been discussed.

You have for example:

 Francis Crick who scored 115 on an iq test,he won the nobel prize

 Richard Feynman his iq score was 126 and he won the nobel prize too

William Schockley scored 125 on an iq test

Luis Alvarez his iq score was below 135 and he failed to qualify for Terman study

Andy Warhol scored 86 on an iq test. He must have been a highly intelligent business man to get so much paid for his paintings. He has painted some of the most expensive paintings of all time.

You might score 160 on an iq test and in spite of that you are not able to solve complicated mathematical problems. You might have a high iq score and you might be lousy at math. It is not a correct conclusion to say that mathematics is not logical. If you score very high on an iq test, you are probably  very good at puzzles and logical games. An iq test measures a spesific logical field in your brain, but for example Mensas IQ test does not measure mathematical logic. I like mensas IQ test, it is very clear and they do not ask a lot of silly questions.

Then i have read about people who have scored below average on mensas iq test, my personal thought about that is, if you score low, it does not mean that you are mentally retarded, you have just had bad luck and you are probably not used to those kind of questions. Mentally retarded humans live often in institutions with daily caregivers and nurses and if this is not your situation  and you are able to drive a car and if you have an advanced vocabulary or if you have a good command of a complicated language or if you are able to perform something else, which is demanding, then you are not mentally retarded, in spite of a bad iq test result. Therefor some psychologists also have made a list about what you are able to practice with the iq you have.
 So do not worry, be happy.

This means that you do not have to be intelligent to be good at maths, according to mensa and then they give a very strange explanation for that. 

 And then...

 If A has a higher iq than B, why does B win all the chess games over A? Complicated questions

  

And then i have a few comments about these creativity tests.

How du they measure creativity, the creativity tests are not good enough. The creativity tests do not measure imgination and an artist has to use imagination to create something new, how do you measure imagination? Imagination is to abstract to measure. Yes if you work as a business manager you have to find creative ways, to sell more, but an artists creativity is different from a business man`s. Andy Warhol was an exception.

I think i will find time to compose today, i am glad for that.

Ciao, Johanna