<p>To the OP. Bcuz i havent found the quote button yet lol.</p>
<p>Im 16 and just graduated with a 1800 n SAT, n going off to university</p>
<p>So, I guess me…lots of smarter ppl out there though</p>
<p>just because i’m a big baseball and Twins fan, my vote for smartest person goes to Terry Ryan, ex-GM of the Twins… for drafting All-World catcher Joe Mauer instead of Mark Prior :)</p>
<p>getting a 4.0 and high Sat scores does not make you smart. It makes you hard working. Smart is based on how easily you can memorize something, how much you can memorize, how easily you pick things up, and how quickly you can compute problems or think critically. Whereas being a genius is doing all of these things at the same time, or thinking of things that nobody has ever thought of in any field (music included) as in pushing the envelope of human mental/creative capacity. Nobody will ever call you a genius for getting a 4.0, or a 1600 or graduating from Harvard. There have been few geniuses that ever lived, some contribute to the world and some dont…some have degrees and some dont. They were geniuses because of what they could do, not who they could impress.</p>
<p>I meet him everyday. in the mirror. Oh wait, it’s me :)</p>
<p>but seriously? If I could meet one person who was willing to share his insights with me, it’d be Bernie Madoff. I could learn so much from his mistakes.</p>
<p>“I meet him everyday. in the mirror. Oh wait, it’s me”</p>
<p>Copy Cat</p>
<p>It probably has to be a real estate developer I met summer 07. </p>
<p>He was like the Wikipedia of real estate trends/stats, amazing talent and insight, no wonder he is rich.</p>
<p>Anyone else</p>
<p>Reid Barton.</p>
<p>“getting a 4.0 and high Sat scores does not make you smart.”
it does if u put almost no effort into studying/trying.</p>
<p>anyhoo…
“My brother is the smartest person I’ve ever met. He has a perfect memory. Perfect. It’s impossible to argue with him, because he knows everything. He surfs wikipedia in his free time and thus is full of random facts. He knows everything about everything. He is incredible at solving math/physics problems, he’s like Spock in that his logic is impeccable. And yet he’s personable and likable.”</p>
<p>this perfectly describes my dad. not only has he never NOT been able to solve any math problem i have brought to him [& trust me…that’s a LOT of math], but he also recalls perfect facts, names of people, history tidbits, etc. it’s like his brain is an encyclopedia & he just has to go searching through the pages for the answer :X he’s also ‘the life of the party’ type. good lord, no wonder i have such an inferiority complex…once my friend was like…‘why don’t u do better in math when u have your dad to ask questions to?’ D:</p>
<p>anyone else? I love reading about genius and smart people because I am not one of them.</p>
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<p>To a point you’re right, but there’s a limit. Take someone of average intelligence and put them in an SAT training clinic for 3 years and they still probably wouldn’t get a perfect score. The GPA I agree with a bit more, but only because GPAs are so variable and only mean something in context of what you took to get it.</p>
<p>And yes, people will call you a genius for getting a 1600 on the SATs. Both my one friend and myself have been called “geniuses” for our SAT scores (and I’m not bragging, we’re not even CLOSE to geniuses, just trying to prove a point) by multiple people and we’re 100-200 points off of perfect scores (out of 2400). Going back to my first paragraph, try telling someone of average intelligence (1600 out of 2400 on the SATs naturally) that the reason they didn’t get a perfect score is because they didn’t work hard enough and not only will you insult them but they’d think you were a crazy elitist prick.</p>
<p>But as for the OP, a genius is so highly subjective. In my opinion there have probably only ever been a few true “geniuses” in the history of the world and I can’t name any of them off of the top of my head because I, along with the rest of the world, probably never knew they existed. There are always “geniuses in their field”, but just because someone is a human calculator doesn’t make them a genius in my opinion, just a genius at math. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I just won’t apply the label genius to them. And then there are prodigies who seem ungodly smart when they’re young but eventually curve out and, while they’re still extremely intelligent, never end up doing things that the world will remember for ages to come. These prodigies are usually just “geniuses in their field” too.</p>
<p>Genius in any one thing almost always seems to come with a negative social impact. I’ve read (well, actually my friend has read and he told me) that people with a 30 point difference in IQ actually have a hard time socializing/communicating with each other. I’ve talked to psychologists that have told me that roughly every 30 points of IQ the person genuinely thinks differently. This is to say that someone with an IQ of 100 genuinely thinks in a different way than someone with an IQ of 130. It’s not just a scale, it’s a category. If you take these tidbits in mind, it’s no wonder that the true geniuses among us (IQ of 170-200?) have issues socially for whatever reason, which in my view would actually preclude them from being true geniuses. It’s a vicious circle.</p>
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<p>@ OP - Haven’t really met anyone that’s wow’ed me yet. I’m hoping I will, though.</p>
<p>< myself. bar none.</p>
<p>Tru dat…</p>
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<p>This kid’s first name wouldn’t happen to be Andy, would it? He sounds creepily similar to a kid I know.</p>
<p>Edit: And this thread is very similar to the one InnovativeBoxx posted a while ago while he was ■■■■■■■■ for traits to make other kids envy him for being smart or something similarly deranged. Coincidence? Maybe.</p>
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<p>Whaaaat? Just how hard do you think a simple test like the SAT is? 3 years wouldn’t suffice? I think anyone of average intelligence could get a perfect score in 3 months, if that’s all the did and focused on. The SAT is a narrow test, it tests only a few, very simple skills. The math section is easily aceable because all the problems are are variations of a few basic types and the english section isn’t impossible if you know (or learn) some vocab. When people take the IQ test multiple times, their scores go up. Is it because they’re getting smarter? No, it’s because they learn how to play the test. Same with the SAT.</p>
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Well at least we don’t have egos as big as yours.</p>
<p>“Take someone of average intelligence and put them in an SAT training clinic for 3 years and they still probably wouldn’t get a perfect score”
“Whaaaat? Just how hard do you think a simple test like the SAT is? 3 years wouldn’t suffice? I think anyone of average intelligence could get a perfect score in 3 months, if that’s all the did and focused on. The SAT is a narrow test, it tests only a few, very simple skills. The math section is easily aceable because all the problems are are variations of a few basic types and the english section isn’t impossible if you know (or learn) some vocab. When people take the IQ test multiple times, their scores go up. Is it because they’re getting smarter? No, it’s because they learn how to play the test. Same with the SAT.”</p>
<p>you’re acting as if the SAT is <em>just</em> a game & a person of average intelligence means <em>a person of average intelligence in the CC world</em>. i studied a LOT for the SAT [2 tutors], but after a certain point of studying, there’s like this invisible threshold that keeps your score from increasing. if u study some vocab words, that’s no guarantee to a 2400 or even a 2300. but if u grew up reading tons of ~advanced~ books, u probably start out with an advanced vocabulary. it’s also a lot of natural ability. at least that’s what i believe.</p>
<p>I #$%^ing hate the SAT.</p>
<p>George W. Bush</p>
<p>a kid who was a year older that wnt to my high school. Got into HYPMS, RSI participant, intel finalist, IPho gold medalist, IMO medalist, perfect SATs/SATIIs,knew 4 languages other than english…i colud go on, but this thread is beginning to make me feel inferior.</p>