Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:11:04 01/09/02
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On January 09, 2002 at 11:29:07, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>(A)Marion Vos Savant is 230 and has a weird last name.
Just to be anal: Marylin
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>(B) Bill Gates is 70 IQ points below Vos Savant, at 160, yet has made $60
>billion with selling crap I'm using at the moment.
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>(C)I'm a 150 -that's both my IQ and my possessings in Euro.
>
>Now who is the smartest cookie?
Oreos. If they start including Ginko Biloba extract then they will really be the
smartest cookies around. :-)
Jim's comment on Mensa is on the money, but I find it appalling all the same. I
found José's comment on her attempt to refute Wiles's proof interesting. Sounded
a bit like Capablanca and Alekhine. It must have been quite a book since last I
read, his proof extended to over 100 pages. That's no doubt the biggest danger
of having everything come so easily: one comes to believe that genuine work or
effort are unnecessary or should be. Surely this is true up to the limits of
what such a gift brings, but the point of my disgust is that it makes pushing
the very highest limits, only accessible to the brightest stars, possible, and
it would seem that that is being spurned for hobbyism at best. Agreed that super
IQs do not necessarily entail super ambition, and it would seem that it even
engenders just the opposite: a proportional laziness and lack of work ethic.
However, that signifies a fatal flaw in the person endowed with such
intelligence, most likely emotional in nature. My recounting of Marylin's
comment on voting is true, and it shows a real lack of depth, which came as
surprising (close to shocking really) to me.
Albert
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