Peter W.
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@Mean Old Lady “Standardized” tests are useful only for measuring against a standard/average/typical model - and they certainly are predictive of future performances against that same model. But that doesn’t mean they are useless. I decided I’d like to be a high school teacher - at the tender age of 60 - and ended up teaching Algebra, Geometry, Physics and assorted other classes as required - for five years at a Boarding School in which all of the students were euphemistically described as “learning different,” We didn’t use “IQ” tests - but I’m sure we would not have produced a standard “bell curve” had we done so. Many were “diagnosed” as ADD or ADHD or OCD or other of the disabilities and abnormalities so often OVER-diagnosed. But, in my experience almost all had unique strengths hidden somewhere. (Only two were acknowledged as complete wastes of time and resources. Both were the spawn of uber-rich parents or grandparents who just didn’t have time for them.) My job was to find those unique strengths and work with them. It was an experience I would not have missed for the world - but it was also an experience I would not choose to repeat for the world.
OUTTATHEPARK!! I was initially frustrated with the clues about planets. Without context, they were as void as interplanetary space. But, when I got to the SE corner and PLANETS, the proverbial light bulb went on and that let me nail eight answers and roll through all the rest - except for that one-named singer, of whom I never heard. I grew up with PLUTO and was sad to not see a “*9th” clue. But I was as astounded as I’ve ever been with the cleverness of this puzzle, its theme and its precision arrangement. WELL DONE!!
Those may or may not be rainbow trout - but they are certainly not illustrative of the coloring which earned the name for one branch of the Rainbow/Steelhead group.
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