Posted on 10/05/2018 9:48:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber
People too often forget that IQ tests haven’t been around that long. Indeed, such psychological measures are only about a century old. Early versions appeared in France with the work of Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon in 1905. However, these tests didn’t become associated with genius until the measure moved from the Sorbonne in Paris to Stanford University in Northern California. There Professor Lewis M. Terman had it translated from French into English, and then standardized on sufficient numbers of children, to create what became known as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale....
The result was a group of 1,528 extremely bright boys and girls who averaged around 11 years old. And to say they were “bright” is a very big understatement. Their average IQ was 151, with 77 claiming IQs between 177 and 200....…
The story goes from bad to worse. Of the many rejects—the children with tested IQs not high enough to make it into the Terman sample—at least two attained higher levels of acclaim than those who had the “test smarts” to become Termites. Here are their stories: Luis Walter (Luie) Alvarez was born in San Francisco, just up the peninsula from Stanford. He was around 10 years old when he took Terman’s test but scored too low to enter the sample. The story goes from bad to worse. Of the many rejects—the children with tested IQs not high enough to make it into the Terman sample—at least two attained higher levels of acclaim than those who had the “test smarts” to become Termites. Here are their stories: Luis Walter (Luie) Alvarez was born in San Francisco, just up the peninsula from Stanford. He was around 10 years old when he took Terman’s test but scored too low to enter the sample.
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And in order to prove you’re full of crap you run straight to the insults for no reason. If you had facts you wouldn’t need insults, you go to insults so now we know you are useless and pathetic. Good bye.
“Sorry but you are simply full of crap”
Well, I guess to your 1st grader mind, that settles that.
“And in order to prove you’re full of crap you run straight to the insults for no reason.”
Which is why you did it?
Seriously, your celebrity star-struck childishly feeble mind is why this nation is in such bad shape. Zero use of intelligence and nothing but emotional responses. You’re easily led around by your nose ring. Someone else tells you what to worship and you do.
you threw the first insult. Seriously you know nothing about me, and you need to insult simply for pointing out that the Nobel science prize has meaning. How bad is your ego that you need to tear others down that badly? You are wrong. Across he board. And you are sad in your need to insults. Every one you throw proves how utterly pathetic and worthless you are. Keep going, announce to the world how much you hate yourself. But I’m not reading anymore of you useless spew.
Does she like saxaphones? Bugles? Hard-note pianos? Egotistical solo singers? Screeching violins?
Those are deal-breakers.
Seriously, sorry you lost your house.
FRegards ....
It was worth it...
That’s the same list I go by. It seems to hold true.
Dumb or smart mixed with lazy is toxic in the workplace. Sometimes entitlement is just about as bad as lazy.
Indeed.
Let the humble bragging begin.
“I’m a member of mensa, but I’m just a regular guy who drives a truck etc...”
“A study I read decades ago put work and social success with the 120-130 range.”
Exactly right. While some geniuses are successful in their field, the correlation with success lies in the median range. An IQ more than one standard deviation lower puts success out of reach—at least from a normal perspective—though many such people are successful to a degree and happy with their lives.
A deviation higher may grant some level of success, but often comes at the cost of alienation and isolation. To quote a wise man:
For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
What matters is indefatigable determination. Illustrious people are tireless.
I’ll put my money on common sense any day.
You need a basic level of intelligence to get by in life. But there is also another factor I will describe as drive but is more complex. Some people are satisfied with things as they are, some are constantly driven to find a better, faster, more efficient way. You can see this in every walk of life. Combine that drive with intelligence and performance explodes.
I know many people that are much more intelligent than me but they are satisfied with things how they are.
It could have been worse. Like weaving Code for Apollo ?
Thank You for doing Your part in Our Space Program.
I used to install car alarms years ago. One customer brought me a ‘67 or so Mustang and wanted every add on We had available put on the bottom line Alarm CPU that was on Sale. He wasn’t happy with the way it all worked and after several weeks I finally got Him on the phone with the Manufacturer Tech guy. I’m standing there listening to one side of the conversation and suddenly the Customer says “Well I would have done it this way” and then continues on with “I was a Design Engineer for the Redundancy Systems on the Saturn V Rocket and you should redesign this Alarm CPU”.
I just went back to the shop and removed all of the Alarm System and refunded His money. He said he would make it at home. I said OK.
If I’d known in the beginning I would have never even started the installation. Was a very clean and proper Mustang though.
Wiped out all the local tribes.
But you would think such a smart group could have picked it's self up. They never did. Never even tried. Even with the major influx of all those so superior Germany genes.
Chile has almost advanced to first world status and probably will be there in a decade. They want it real bad.
No kidding.
ACD and the fairies comes to mind.
Which is why when I see people buying into ideas just as ludicrous I try to give them a push in the right direction. Usually does not work. Probably won't here either. Or someone might take a look beyond the charts and tables and wonder just how this data came to be and dig. You never know. People can surprise you.
You’re wrong Teddy, I’m not trying to be confrontation
I’ve been there many times
I lived in Brasil next door and my ex wife is from Brasil and my two daughters are dual passport....not dual citizen
Argentina DNA mapping is approximately one third Amerindian markers
Mestizo
And there are still Indians in Argentina
About 3 percent of the population is actual tribe self identifying Indians mostly in the northwest and Patagonia
The USA is around one percent First Nations folk
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