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Is anyone else infuriated by the use of vague words like "genius" without a good metric to measure it?
by andreyf 16y ago
Is anyone else infuriated by the use of vague words like "genius" without a good metric to measure it?
- Dramatize 16y agoIQ tests are generally a good measure. I say generally because I broke the test - I was really bad at the short term memory tests, yet good in other sections. Because there was such a big difference, a proper score couldn't be worked out.
- tokenadult 16y agoIn current psychological literature, the term "genius" is developing a generally accepted definition. Psychologist Dean Keith Simonton is the leading author on the subject. The basis idea is that a genius is someone who performs at a level that is reliably superior in a statistical sense (that is, an "expert" in the terminology of K. Anders Ericsson) AND produces a new paradigm of performance in the domain of performance. Comment on the submitted article: the Mozart biographical materials I have read suggest that Mozart's sister didn't reach Wolfgang's high level of performance partly because their father really did have a child in whom more was invested, consistent with sexist attitudes of the time. After edit: I guess the author of the essay has ten years to learn how to write a well researched essay on a topic that is well sourced in the standard scientific literature.
- nadam 16y agoFor example if you can prove a hard open mathematical problem at which great mathematicians failed then you are a genius. (This is just an example, there are other examples, but this is quite objective.)