Posted on 08/05/2020 8:30:03 AM PDT by entropy12
Nishi Uggalle, the latest crowned champion of Channel 4’s Child Genius show, is believed to possess an IQ “higher than Einstein’s”. Impressive as it sounds for a 12-year-old winning a junior Mastermind programme, but does the comparison with the infamous physicist actually mean anything? And how seriously should we consider IQ (intelligence quotient) as a benchmark of a person’s intellectual capacity?
The most notable issue is that nobody knows what Albert Einstein’s IQ was because he never took the test. It is presumed he would have an IQ score of over 160.
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I went to a MENSA meeting.
Everyone was naked and playing volleyball.
Turns out I didn’t understand the difference between MENSA and nudist.
Great game!
Edison was kind of unethical in his business practices.
The recent film “The Current War” does a decent job showing that.
I know the guy who invented the coating to make the stealth invisible to radar. His IQ was rated at 180 something.
He said that when he was in school the principal called hin n and said:
“I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that your IQ is 180. The bad news is that you’re going to have to go through life dealing with a lot of stupid shits”.
This guy has tons of patents - turned his laundry room into a lab in recent years. Getting frail now. He accumulated collections that will have to be sold at Sotheby’s.
He’s had a good life.
Just like people that went to Harvard!
He was more than kind of unethical.
Thank you for the links.
I was being nice !
The IQ means nothing without having accomplished anything. Einstein. By the time he was 12, he passed geometry and was doing college physics and mastered calculus by the time he was 15 years.
There is also so much more to being intelligent than having a high IQ. Having a great memory probably is more important than the actual IQ. If you have a great memory, you can speed along your ability learn more than somebody who is more intelligent, but does not have a great memory.
It means you aren’t a democrat.
Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured? …Once a “planned economy” is in place, it cannot be. Totalitarianism is inextricable from socialism; it’s part of the definition of socialism. People like Woodrow Wilson knew this; that is why he called socialism and democracy “one and the same” and pointed out the fact of the ideologies (ideology?) being antithetical to personal rights and freedoms.
— From “Why Socialism?”, 1949
It’s been said, the greatest benefit of being a Harvard graduate is never again having to be impressed by a Harvard graduate.
IQ is talent, which is not the same as genius, because genius is talent plus self reliance, acute consciousness, character and adventurism.
IQ only works in a controled and cattered accademic like environment.
Geeks have IQ but are not geniuses like the explorer types as David Livingston, Lewis&Clerk, George Washington, Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Richard F Burton, Rigby etc. Who are absolute giants that we cannot find anymore.
“high IQ can result in social isolation”
“their general age group may find them a tad eccentric”
Pretty much sums it up.
Edison is the antifreedom modern corporate type. Paying a guy like Henry Maxim to not make patent sounds a lot like today’s welfare system. Disgusting
Elena Kagan taught me how to be disgusted by Harvard graduates. (She was dean of their law school when Ben Shapiro attended.)
Damn I mistaken, or do we have a few intelligent signalers on this thread?
“From what I’ve seen of the Mensa members, many seem to be high-IQ people who are dysfunctional in some way.”
I agree with that. I know of one member who had less than the best social skills. It seems when a person excels in one area they are lacking in another area.
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