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To be honest with everybody I don't think that intelligence can be properly measured .
Interesting fact, Einstein's IQ was estimated to be about 168, the maximum is 200. Granted, the man wasn't nearly as smart as everyone thinks he was, the anecdotal complexity of the theory of relativity is the main reason most everyone thinks he was the greatest genius of all time.
Interesting fact, Einstein's IQ was estimated to be about 168, the maximum is 200. Granted, the man wasn't nearly as smart as everyone thinks he was, the anecdotal complexity of the theory of relativity is the main reason most everyone thinks he was the greatest genius of all time.
Interesting fact, Einstein's IQ was estimated to be about 168, the maximum is 200.
I actually never thought Einstein was such a smart person, any way - and much of what he'd delivered seemed typical out of sheer hard work, and effort.
There is no 'maximum IQ'...
How can you initiate a scientific paradigm shift with 'typical hard work'? It's a purely theoretical concept, a whole new system with new rules. Imagination and out-of-the-box thinking is absolutely necessary here imo.
I actually never thought Einstein was such a smart person, any way - and much of what he'd delivered seemed typical out of sheer hard work, and effort.
How can you initiate a scientific paradigm shift with 'typical hard work'? It's a purely theoretical concept, a whole new system with new rules. Imagination and out-of-the-box thinking is absolutely necessary here imo.
Out of the box thinking is necessary, but entirely insufficient.
what IQs have you scored?
i'm 116. average, i guess. or slightly above avg if i wanted to reach for straws and be an asshole (to whom, i don't know.. average people apparently do not exist ). years ago, right after highschool, i had a similar score, i think, so it hasn't changed much (i haven't entered college either.. so my lifestyle hasn't changed..). i get high 130s on some of those ghetto online tests. flattering, but ridiculous.
as for what a person could do with their intelligence, that's a good point. i read that richard feynman was 125.
as for what a person could do with their intelligence, that's a good point. i read that richard feynman was 125.
The real power of Einstein's genius is, in a way, "just luck." He predicted that gravity would bend light, very precisely. Experiment confirmed his result, with the observation of a star during a total eclipse of the sun (not the heart!). One little-told fact is that he was originally off by a factor of two, but corrected it before the experiment was performed.
Out of the box thinking is necessary, but entirely insufficient. When you read the literature, his papers don't seem that revolutionary. Rather, he took the existing scientific riddles of his day and solved them using techniques that already existed:
Pretty much all of science is really very boring detail work. The problem isn't coming up with a cool idea; the problem is writing a credible paper about your idea that passes peer review and actually contributes to knowledge. Cool ideas are a dime a dozen, and crackpots abound in physics forums worldwide. Hard work turns a cool idea into Nobel-prize-winning material.