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Mozart was a genius. Ryo Fukui started playing the piano at 22 (accordion at 18), he did alright for himself. Mozart’s dad was a great student and his mother’
by SamReidHughes 8y ago
Mozart was a genius.
Ryo Fukui started playing the piano at 22 (accordion at 18), he did alright for himself.
Mozart’s dad was a great student and his mother’s father was highly educated too. So my guess is, he’d be able to handle Java.
It’s actually easy (in principle) to measure the programming facet of intelligence: CS programs do this with weed-out classes.
- zbentley 8y agoThese people are outliers. The problem with outliers is that they're so far out of the normal range that it's often difficult/impossible to use outliers' experiences to answer "what causes deviations within the normal range?" Were they gifted from birth? Did they have unique developmental opportunities? Did a radioactive spider bite them just so? We can analyze their lives and experiences, but we often place far too much stock in the facts of that analysis without properly assessing those facts' significance. Using Mozart & co. as [counter]examples in a discussion about innate potential/intelligence/development is about as useful as using lottery winners to derive recommended savings levels for the general population, or using lightning strike victims to derive recommendations for public safety.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoNot at all. They're great tools for understanding how intelligence is multidimensional. There are also math geniuses who are very untalented at music. That tells us something.