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> why was he passionately interested and can we replicate it in an average person? That is a very good question. I would imagine there been a lot written about
by jacobolus 8y ago
> why was he passionately interested and can we replicate it in an average person?
That is a very good question. I would imagine there been a lot written about this, but I’m not sure how systematically it has been studied.
One thing that definitely does not work for the general student is typical classrooms with scores, grades, a fixed pace, and tons of bureaucratic overhead.
> this sort of thing [the Polgar experiment] is very very rarely done despite the obvious rewards
The “reward” to being a child prodigy isn’t that great. If the cost is most of the parents’ full-time attention, then most families can’t afford it. This doesn’t scale.
- solveit 8y agoIt does if you're a totalitarian state that really really wants to win an ideological battle by producing Olympic medals and Nobel prizes. Only one of those were produced.
- MagnumOpus 8y agoNobels are given by committees, so they are not necessarily a fair comparison. Olympic medals are more comparable to IMO medals, and the latter were won disproportionately by communists states with dedicated preparation: China in the last 30 years, before that the Soviets, the Hungarians, Romanians and East Germans. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Olympiad#/media/File:International_Mathematical_Olympiad_highest_team_score_bar_chart.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Oly...