Posted on 12/02/2022 2:34:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
Multiple psychological factors contribute to astonishing feats of creativity and insight.
In the late 1920s, a young working-class boy nicknamed Ritty spent most of his time tinkering in his "laboratory" at his parents' home in Rockaway, New York.
His lab was an old wooden packing box, equipped with shelves that contained a storage battery and an electric circuit of light bulbs, switches and resistors. One of his proudest inventions was a homemade burglar alarm that alerted him whenever his parents entered his room. He used a microscope to study the natural world and he would sometimes take his chemistry set into the street to perform tricks for other children.
Ritty's early academic record was unremarkable. He struggled with literature and foreign languages, while, in an IQ test taken as a child, he reportedly scored around 125, which is above average but by no means genius territory. As an adolescent, however, he showed a flair for mathematics and started teaching himself from elementary textbooks. By the end of high school, Ritty reached the top place in a state-wide annual maths competition.
The rest is history. You might know Ritty as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, whose new theory of quantum electrodynamics revolutionised the study of subatomic particles.
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Observing the moronial and gen zzzz generation, these days intelligence is in short supply, doubly so if college edumacated in anything non STEM and even then it is increasingly iffy.
Aside from the fact that many of us who don't answer pollsters or want our personal details splattered across some cloud server, aren't signing up (or signing our kids up) for IQ tests.
Secondarily, I'd rather have a hard working normal person than a slacking smartest-guy-in-the-room hanging around. At least the normal guy will bust into a sweat trying to fix the problem, and often success is mostly perspiration.
Americans are dreamers, and have been raised in an anti-class structure. I'd go so far as to say, we celebrate REAL diversity: Anyone can be President, anyone can be a CEO, anyone can open their own business. We can outmaneuver anyone from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America (the Antarticans, however...), and people who like Springsteen twice on Sunday.
....and people here legally from abroad who embrace that American spirit, are more American than our natural-born leftists and other losers.
A recent study indicated that the higher your IQ the more deceptive you are. Explains some of the idiot Professors.
When you have a society in which there is a mass proliferation of data (much of it deliberate misinfo, disinfo and agitprop) combined with an ongoing, deliberate effort to discourage critical thinking skills, we are left with people of all levels of intelligence making decisions and drawing conclusion based on erroneous data.
There is not a psychometric Ian in the world that believes this.
“There is not a psychometric Ian in the world that believes this.”
But what about the psychometric Nigels or the psychometric Reginalds?
Wisdom >>> intelligence
That headline is yet more proof they have none of either at the Beeb.
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So what was the IQ of the people that performed the study?
Because if the study is true then they're either liars or idiots...
Dr Feynman’s video’s made by the BBC are insightful on how he thought, especially his “why” video. He says that in order to learn, you must ask questions that you will understand the answer you are given. That you must have a frame of reference to ask your question so that you will understand the answer.
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