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"Symptoms of the disorder first appeared while he was enrolled at Cambridge; he lost his balance and fell down a flight of stairs, hitting his head. Worried tha
by bd 18y ago
"Symptoms of the disorder first appeared while he was enrolled at Cambridge; he lost his balance and fell down a flight of stairs, hitting his head. Worried that he would lose his genius, he took the Mensa test to verify that his intellectual abilities were intact."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#Illness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#Illness
- tvon 18y agoWhile an interesting snippet, I don't see how it relates to the comment you responded to.
- queensnake 18y ago-- he obviously cared about his IQ /at the time/ if he took the test. If he really didn't care he could have just tackled some physics problem and seen if it felt the same (or something).
- tokenadult 18y agoAnd subsequently he appears to have decided that having actual accomplishments as a physics researcher and as a popular author on science is much more significant than his IQ score. In other words, what he thinks after he learned more and had real-world experience is that boasting about IQ is for losers, as he said in the much more recent interview.
- zck 18y agoThere's a difference between caring about -- or knowing -- one's IQ, and boasting about it.
- nailer 18y agoAlso there are smart people who haven't achieved much in their life. Sometimes I think I'm one of them. Ultimately one's achievements mean more than their mental capacity.