Intelligence agency

State of My State Although I am comfortable analyzing pre-generated data, developing my own data utilizing formulas has been a challenging yet rewarding experience in EDRS 673. My comfort level and proficiency vary with each concept presented thus far. Descriptive data, correlations, and regressions are statistical methods I comprehend well enough to analyze confidently. On the other hand, z-cores and t-tests are statistical methods I struggle to fully understand. In general, I understand the…

In this industry there is considerable data to justify the use of the assessment center process (Terpak, 2008). The process begins when the agency desiring testing establishes the criteria for the job. This is accomplished primarily through a job analysis which will define the knowledge, skill and ability necessary for the position (Rausch, 2008). One job analysis commonly assessed is the…

Learning Your Own Way Benedict Carey was born March 3rd, 1960 in California and originally had a degree in mathematics. He was a freelance writer for in Los Angeles before writing health and fitness for the New York Times. He then became a science reporter where he lives in New York for the New York Times and has been since 2004. Carey is one of the most emailed reporters. Carey has several outstanding reviews from media and average everyday readers. Carey’s How We Learn research…

of who the main antagonist, “A”, and her late friend’s murderer is. When many people hear the word smart, the first thing they usually think about is book or school smart. But, the smartest people have a personality that gives off an aura of intelligence, which Spencer always has in her points of view. The topic of smart personalities can be a bit hard to comprehend, but many people probably know at least one person in their life who seems to know everything, random facts float into their…

year-old adult with an IQ of 68. He is mentally challenged but he desperately wants to be smart. Charlie is asked to have a surgery that the doctors think will make him smarter but the results are not guaranteed. Charlie will do anything to gain more intelligence and therefore agrees to have the surgery and take part in the scientists’ experimentation on him and his advances. Charlie’s surgery does in fact increase his knowledge (at least in the beginning). As Charlie becomes smarter he starts…

Everyone has that one trait that will make them clever in life. Some people know that using that trait makes people change in a good way, or more likely a bad way. Others can’t realize it and make hurtful mistakes to others so they can quit that nice and kind life to find something more fun for them. In the story “Peak” a 14 year-old kid named Peak is hurt in the soul because his father didn’t even care for him anymore. Peak knows that now he will have to deal with someone else that he doesn’t…

In the story flowers for Algernon by Dannell key, Charlie is the main character and has a low IQ then gets an operation witch triples his IQ. He found a flaw in the operation had his IQ drops again. In the story you read his journal so you can see how he became smarter and in the order he became smarter and how. Charlie is determined to get smart and never gives up he always went to class, his teacher could tell he was trying hard, and he always did what the doctors told him to do. Charlie is a…

Gladwell’s overall argument in this novel is that we should take on situations using an unconventional way, and use our disadvantages to our advantage. For example, David Boies, a world renown lawyer, had dyslexia, so he could not read or comprehend text. Boies began to listen more intently to people, and his memory became a strong tool. As a result, his ability to listen and remember everything became his strongest advantage. Another example is Emil Jay Freireich, the doctor who developed a…

writes daily progress reports about everything that has happened to him. “Mr. Strauss says I [should] [write] down what I think and [everything] that [happens] to me from now on,” as Charlie states in progress report 1- March 5,1965. As Charlie’s intelligence increases since he had the operation, the progress that he has made in his writing and perspectives on things is very clear. In progress report 2- March 6 Charlie goes into take an inkblot test that he thinks he failed. Charlie clearly…

together, Algernon becomes not smart and is unable to go through the and their mind is deteriorating. Charlie did some experiments and now his mind is also deteriorating. Now He is going to end up like Algernon he is going to die and not have any intelligence leading up to his death. It came full circle when he was not intelligent at a young age and then when they did the operation he started to become smart, as he got older and was the smartest person in the…