Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> John Clark wrote:
> > The physicist Richard Feynman was one of the greatest geniuses of the 20'th
> > century and when he was in high school he had an IQ test. He got a mediocre 125.
> > The best definition of intelligence that I can think of is " the sort of thing
> > that Richard Feynman did" therefore the disgrace can not be Feynman's,
> > it's the advocates of the test who should feel embarrassed.
> >
> > Years later after he became famous and won the Nobel prize the people at
> > Mensa wrote to him and begged him to join, he took great delight in telling
> > them that he could not, he just wasn't smart enough.
>
> ...which, of course, utterly ignores the fact that IQs can change over
> time. Did Feynman do his most brilliant work in high school, at the
> time he was tested? (Even ignoring the possibility that the test was
> inaccurate...)
He actually went to college at a young age, and was the youngest bigshot
in the Manhattan Project. So young, in fact, that after the war, as a
newly minted professor at Cornell, when he was schmoozing some co-ed for
some horizontal tutoring, she declared him a liar when he said he had
worked on the Manhattan Project, assuming he was far too young to have
done anything so important.
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