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| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Rick Law on November 22, 2019, 09:05:09 pm ---Here is where nature is playing a cruel game on us. If you are very high IQ, you can go to college at a very young age with the older and more mature kids. On average, you are not even as mature as people in your own age group and now you are up against the older and more matured college age kids... But if you do manage to get there (there being your goal) even if immaturely, you can stay ahead and get further than others. --- End quote --- Yet there seems to be little to no evidence that the high IQ's who graduated super early go on to be be more successful? |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on November 22, 2019, 02:17:15 pm ---As for me, I went to a reputedly one of the worst government high schools around. --- End quote --- I went to literally the worst public high school in the country, famously documented in front page news around the country. |
| Rick Law:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 22, 2019, 09:58:38 pm --- --- Quote from: Rick Law on November 22, 2019, 09:05:09 pm ---Here is where nature is playing a cruel game on us. If you are very high IQ, you can go to college at a very young age with the older and more mature kids. On average, you are not even as mature as people in your own age group and now you are up against the older and more matured college age kids... But if you do manage to get there (there being your goal) even if immaturely, you can stay ahead and get further than others. --- End quote --- Yet there seems to be little to no evidence that the high IQ's who graduated super early go on to be be more successful? --- End quote --- Too bad we don't have solid IQ information on most of the successful individuals out there. One can only use reasoning to guess at the answer. I think your question actually points to the proof that "learning faster" alone is not adequate a lift into automatic success. Only the few that can "learning faster", "do better", and "can handle the maturity issue" have a chance of fully enjoy the gift of a high IQ. Missing any one of the three may turn a blessing into a curse. In one of my earlier replies in this thread, I cited the Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski) example. According to Wikipedia, he has 167 IQ and started university early and graduated younger than average. But his inability to handle the social interaction issues led him to eventual life-imprisonment. |
| VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 22, 2019, 09:58:38 pm --- --- Quote from: Rick Law on November 22, 2019, 09:05:09 pm ---Here is where nature is playing a cruel game on us. If you are very high IQ, you can go to college at a very young age with the older and more mature kids. On average, you are not even as mature as people in your own age group and now you are up against the older and more matured college age kids... But if you do manage to get there (there being your goal) even if immaturely, you can stay ahead and get further than others. --- End quote --- Yet there seems to be little to no evidence that the high IQ's who graduated super early go on to be be more successful? --- End quote --- Plenty of evidence. Education-wise they are definitely successful because they met their goals - even if they drive taxis. Successful is merely achieved ones goals. Osama Bin Laden was success for a long time. Unfortunately most people equate success to money, which is nonsense unless it is their prime goal. Another annoyance is the term "he or she is highly sophisticated. To me that means complex. Most engineers are highly sophisticated, albeit sometimes socially challenged. Sophisticated is not the Kim Kardashboards of this world who have little talent other than self-promotion. One thing I do note in my engineering career is those with high IQ does not necessarily mean that have common sense, the ability to handle one's finances, or the ability to relate to people. |
| VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: Rick Law on November 23, 2019, 01:13:44 am ---...In one of my earlier replies in this thread, I cited the Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski) example. According to Wikipedia, he has 167 IQ and started university early and graduated younger than average. But his inability to handle the social interaction issues led him to eventual life-imprisonment. --- End quote --- Ted Bundy had an IQ of 136. Another killer, Nathan Leopold, had an IQ of 210 and graduated from Uni of Michigan at age 17. He apparently spoke 15 languages. Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz) had an IQ of 136. But most criminals, contrary to popular opinion, have a low IQ and are dumb enough to get caught. |
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