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Show DO YOU LACK, "NUMERS FACILITY?" If you have a premonition that you might get your income tax blanks back for correction or for any other reason, take heart from these words: Only about 30 percent of the population has the mental ability to fill out income tax forms. It takes an I. Q. of 110, according to David P. Boder, psychology psy-chology professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Tech-nology. More than 65 percent of the population, "simply do not have the mentality to follow the legal, technical techni-cal language," he said. Even persons with mental ability to understand the instructions may fall down because they lack, "numbers facility," or suffer from repressions, he said. Also, according to the professor, it is a tendency to repress unpleasant experiences and not laziness that makes people put off their income in-come tax figuring until the last possible minute. The lack of "numbers facility" can happen to anyone, he states. Lots of so-called geniuses can't do the simplest problems in mathematics. So when your tax form is , returned just attach a little note to it stating that you : have a lack of so-called "numbers facility," and re-j re-j turn it. You'll probably get a little sympathy, but you'll know there are others besides you who suffer the same ailment. The Illinois psychologist believes that income tax figuring .should be made a regular part of high school instruction or even better to train government experts to devise a simple income tax law and put tax instructions in clear understandable words. Let's hope for such training before next March rolls around. |