Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Switching Tasks Changes Worker Bee DNA

"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever.... "

I wonder what percentage of those reading this get the reference?

It was almost a whoosh for myself, before realizing the reference to Brave New World. I thought the post was referring to the American High School Student IQ Classification system. Based on intelligence tests and grades, students were segregated into one of three mental levels -- above average, average and below average -- the difficulty and demands of the subject matter being simplified accordingly.

The secretive system was meant to be kept from the parents and students; any discussions about the studen

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/5F1P8vvOyXA/switching-tasks-changes-worker-bee-dna

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