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...Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 161st Show: 12 Number of performances put on this year: 38 Year of the staging of the HPT’s first production, Bombastes Furioso: 1844 Age of Paul Dudley, class of 1690, the youngest person ever to be admitted to Harvard: 10 Estimated IQ of Willian James Sidis, class of 1909, a child prodigy who entered Harvard at age 11: 300 Number of books stolen fron Widener library found in the home of a University graduate: 2,054 Number of books in the University’s entire collection...
Still, there's an echo-chamber quality to this technique: genius is what we all say it is. Is there a more objective method? There are IQ tests, of course, but not all IQ tests are the same, which leads to picking a minimum IQ and calling it genius-level. Also, estimates of the IQs of dead geniuses tend to be fun, but they are based on biographical information that can be highly uneven. (Read TIME's 1999 cover story about the "I.Q. Gene...
...drudge theory." He thinks the real story is more complicated: deliberate practice, he says, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for creating genius. For one thing, you need to be smart enough for practice to teach you something. In a 2002 study, Simonton showed that the average IQ of 64 eminent scientists was around 150, fully 50 points higher than the average IQ for the general population. And most of the variation in IQs (about 80%, according to Simonton) is explained by genetics. (See pictures of Bobby Fischer, chess prodigy...
...encourage genius? Gladwell concludes his book by saying the 10,000-hour rule shows that kids just need a chance to show how hard they can work; we need "a society that provides opportunities for all," he says. Well, sure. But he dismisses the idea that kids need higher IQs to achieve success, and that's just wishful thinking. As I argued here, we need to do more to recognize and not alienate high-IQ kids. Too often, principals hold them back with age-mates rather than letting them skip grades...
...She’s a really talented and poised point guard,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said of Berry. “She’s got a great court IQ, is able to penetrate, and is quite deceptive; she’s smart, strong, and quick, has a mid-range jumper, can shoot the three, and we often put her up against the toughest player on the other team...