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Well humor article or not, the fact remains that the top preformers in the field of science often cannot tie their own shoes, balance their own checkbooks or button up their shirt properly. They are really no smarter than most other smart people - they have just chosen to dedicate most of their brain cells towards one particular field of endeavor.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. But it always has annoyed me when people say of a particular task "Well it's not rocket science (or brain surgery)."

Fact is, anybody of average intelligence could become a rocket science or a brain surgeon with the proper training and dedication.

Fact is, anybody of average intelligence could become a rocket science or a brain surgeon with the proper training and dedication.

Not sure I agree.

Rocket science depends on your ability to master "The Calculus". Medicine requires memory and is less dependent on math.

As an anecdote I remember getting my physical from a doctor prior to my being accepted for a position as an electrical engineer with the federal government (FAA) in 1975.

The doctor thought I was applying to the US Postal Service, as were most of those he examined. When he noticed that I was an engineer he said; "Oh... an engineer....you know that's what I wanted to become when I entered college....but I couldn't master the calculus....so I went to medical school instead.