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The distinction between 150 and 180 IQ is meaningful? Really? If such a difference is reliably measured, and not easily trained by either person (e.g. by devour
by WilliamLP 17y ago
The distinction between 150 and 180 IQ is meaningful? Really? If such a difference is reliably measured, and not easily trained by either person (e.g. by devouring a few books on vocabulary and brain puzzlers in the week before the test), then what is the meaningful difference? Both people are going to be bored out of their mind at school and are going to have to be basically self-reliant for their actual learning process for much of their lives. Feynman supposed had an IQ in the low end of that range, and a given person at the higher end probably isn't as smart in any real sense as Feynman was. Whatever the difference is there, it isn't IQ.
- pw0ncakes 17y agoI don't know if the distinction between a tested 150 and 180 IQ is meaningful, but that between those levels of intelligence is. I'm in the 150 range; I've met some who are probably in the 180 range (IMO gold medalists) and they are noticeably smarter than I am. That said, even a 200 IQ won't overcome a lackluster work ethic, mental illness, or social adversity (internal or external).
- nitrogen 17y agoFeynman had the advantage of built-in syntax highlighting, a gift I would absolutely love to have: "When I see equations, I see the letters in colors - I don't know why. As I'm talking, I see vague pictures of Bessel functions from Jahnke and Emde's book, with light-tan j's, slightly violet-bluish n's, and dark brown x's flying around. And I wonder what the hell it must look like to the students." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme%E2%80%93color_synesthesia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme%E2%80%93color_synesthe...
- bitwize 17y agoFeynman had an IQ of 127. He wouldn't have gotten into the gifted class I went to as a kid. He was, however, free to think, and act on those thoughts, and these he practiced into an art. That is more marvellous to me than a number on a test.