Sweet Farts #3: Blown Away (Sweet Farts Series) by Bean Raymond

Author:Bean, Raymond [Bean, Raymond]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2012-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Thanks, Alfred Binet

When we came back to our classroom after the assembly, I felt like my brain was on ice. Anthony had completely blindsided me. Not only did he really get me with the whole IQ challenge thing, but then he blamed one of his farts on me AGAIN! I couldn’t believe it. He’d set that whole thing up, right down to the fart in the microphone.

During free time, I sat down at the computer to research IQ tests. Scott came over and tried to get me involved in a game, but I wasn’t interested. Mr. Cherub came over and tried to cheer me up, but I was beyond cheering. The more I read, the more worried I became. These were tests on reasoning and thought process. Anthony might not be the smartest guy in the world but, I had to admit, he was clever. He had made me look ridiculous more times than I cared to remember. This IQ thing might be a bigger problem than I realized.

The Web site I was on said that IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient. I could barely understand half of what the article was saying, but I did understand that an IQ test is very complicated. This guy named Alfred Binet started testing kids using some test he created back in 1904, and there’s some crazy method to determine the score.

I couldn’t help but think that if Alfred Binet created the test to determine how smart people are, he must have been the smartest person in the world. I mean, how can one person create a test to determine how smart other people are unless the person creating the test is smarter than everyone else? I also wondered, what if Alfred Binet wasn’t really all that smart after all, but everyone just thought he was smart because he created a test on smarts? I was getting myself even more confused. And while I kind of understood what the articles were saying, I couldn’t have explained it to someone else.

Mr. Cherub always tells us that if we can explain something to someone else and help them understand it, then that means we truly understand it. I definitely could not explain an IQ test to someone else. And if I couldn’t even explain how the test worked, how in the world could I expect to do well on it?

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