Brian Phillips <deepbluehalo@earthlink.net> Wrote:
> W.J. Sidis is an anomalous example. You can be highly
> intelligent but emotionally unstable. [...] You're ignoring the substantial
> possibility that he was just disinterested in interacting enough
> to demonstrate what he had accomplished.
This discussion was about how well high IQ correlated with success in life, you've
listed some (but not all) reasons why this often fails, but it does not change the fact
that it has failed. More generally, It would be remarkable if the most complex thing
known, intelligence, could be measured with just one number, you need 2 just to
measure something as simple as the wind, one for speed and one for direction.
I imagine that for a good measure of intelligence you'd need a Tensor, and a big one.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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