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"Smart" and "intelligent" people are just people born in relative financial ease with enough time to focus on studies and very likely with parents in academia o
by truth_ 5y ago
"Smart" and "intelligent" people are just people born in relative financial ease with enough time to focus on studies and very likely with parents in academia or similar fields who made their children aware of the inner workings of the fields.
Physics PhD people are not people fallen from skies with a little extra brain. They just got the time, opportunity, and tips to be there. Same goes for other "smart" people. There are, of course, exceptions like von Neuman, Turing, Feynman, Einstein, etc. But these people are exceptions. Perceptions abourt other people in those fields should not be formed with the image of these guys.
Source: very first hand experiences.
- open0 5y ago100% true, these people are not smart at all. They are parasites and criminals that are destroying society and they must be stopped. Youtube manipulates what people see all over the world and most of it is pure trash.
- dash2 5y agoThat's not what the science says: https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2017121 https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2017121
- truth_ 5y agoThe abstract mentions people with 170 average IQ. Hawking had 169 IIRC. Physics PhDs are averagely on the range 130~145. That's much lower than people on the study. IQ is not taken seriously as a measure of intelligence or success anymore. And people can be trained to score high on IQ tests. On the debate of Nature vs. Nurture, I do not think that inherent intelligence viz. good genes do not play a role. But I tend to belive that nurture has a larger to play.