Tina
tinagower.bsky.social
Tina
@tinagower.bsky.social
Writer. Psychologist. Trains dogs…and kids?
That is his hoodie string now
January 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I dislike it. I work at a school. Mostly I see these folks as potential threats. We had a school shooting yesterday of a stranger coming into a school in our county (two kindergarten kids in critical condition). I’m gathering from info he was a gun rights for protection guy.
December 6, 2024 at 2:11 AM
The two kids are doing good. They are still in critical care.
December 6, 2024 at 1:48 AM
How do you know!!?
December 6, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Once you release it into the wild you’re no longer responsible for what it evolves into…
December 5, 2024 at 4:46 AM
It’s extremely unstable for people on the spectrum and attention disorders. If I’m consistently breaking the previous statistical range on that group, then I can’t even use the scores.
November 30, 2024 at 9:27 PM
It annoys the crud out of me. It can be a good tool used correctly—but it’s not a finite measure of how smart a person is or a placeholder for success potential. Some extremely successful people do meh on it. It can show capacity for certain cognitive processing areas. But also…
November 30, 2024 at 9:26 PM
It has a different affect for me, since I give the IQ multiple times a day. It amazes me how many people think it measures something *completely* different than what it measures. It attempts to predict how well people of high socio-economic status will do on achievement tests.
November 30, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Truth!
November 26, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Please don’t lie, Marina. Your cat took this photo.
November 20, 2024 at 6:03 AM
About once a few years a person will shyly ask what they did that kept me from accepting their friend request on FB and I’ll realize that the darn thing has fully hidden all requests from me and it’s filled with requests from years ago.
November 20, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Thanks!
November 17, 2024 at 7:51 AM