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At some level, everybody works hard, but some are incredibly more talented than others. But I agree that it's misleading to call someone gifted. Intelligence i
by yodsanklai 10y ago
At some level, everybody works hard, but some are incredibly more talented than others.
But I agree that it's misleading to call someone gifted. Intelligence is such a diverse thing. Some people can be gifted for one thing and totally deficient for some other things. I'm not even sure that a very high IQ is predictive of success in science for instance.
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoI also very highly doubt a very high IQ is predictive of science success - those are simply the folks we hear about because it is more popular than bragging that a philosopher or a musician is such. All three can be brilliant, but their minds simply work in different ways from each other.
- vasilipupkin 10y agoVery high iq is certainly correlated with science success and predictive of it to a degree. That degree is not 100%, it's probably less than 50%