[Trumpinator]

The movie set off a long running obsession with prodigy kids who graduate college in their teens or younger. We had that TV series about a kid doctor for example in the 80s or 90s - I can’t remember. Moms were buying headphones designed to be played over pregnant bellies and other nonsense like that. I think the fad died when the first batch of kids turned out to be just as smart (or dumb) as the the rest of the pack.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There have been experiments, I believe, where they have found that newborns will recognize their mother’s voice out of a selection of that and other women’s. So they probably hear something in there. Maybe it’s just insufficient research.

[IronJack]

Many so-called prodigies are really nothing but precocious. They are not smarter than their peers, they are simply more advanced for their age. Eventually, the rest of the pack catches up to -- and in some cases surpasses -- them, and they spend their whole lives trying to recapture that lost glory.

I'm not saying Mozart was an example, but his brilliance as a musician, playing before crowned heads, was an accomplishment for a four-year-old, but nothing of note for a young man or even a teenager.