![]() ![]() The idea that genius is that fragile strikes me as romantic.and condescending. Quite the opposite: 100 years of data show exactly which populations generate which clusters of personality and intelligence traits. The idea that genius or high intelligence is common in all populations has absolutely no data behind it. I look back over my life now and see that no hardship ever stopped my intelligence from expressing itself, and I spent my first 22 years in a place that makes Ferguson, MO, look like a garden spot. In fact my IQ test that yielded the 145 I took with full-blown pneumonia and a fever of 101. in statistics and having a good career supporting the proliferation of intelligence. I had most of them, and several enough to cause me lifelong physical problems that still did not impede me from getting a Ph.D. Nothing stopped me, and I was too smart to "beg on the streets" and so genetically robust that no "preventable childhood disease" stopped me either. I speak as a woman born to a very poor family whose IQ tested (multiple times) between 145 and 165. That "genius searching the trash dump" is arithmetically so improbable for a given population of failed humans that it isn't worth wasting the money finding it. The vast majority of humans distribute well to the left of the intelligence and potential curves. Go to the site Population Pyramids dot net and see how much of human creativity and intelligence has been drained into the sands of r-strategy reproduction and idiocracy. On the topic of intelligence: I'd much rather give money to build a new Webb space telescope or LHC every week than give it to "80% of people living on $10 a day." In my nation we tried pouring tens of trillions in the dimmest and most feckless, and all we have to show for it globally is massive proliferation of the dim and feckless. I recommend that readers also consult the blog of Matt Strassler, formerly a particle physicist at Rutgers and Harvard, now a freelance science communicator. These outtakes were a nice addition to what I know about this topic. Much fun, watching this and listening to these humble, brilliant men explain the frontiers of thinking in their and closely related fields, as well as the process by which complex scientific finds and work get done. ![]()
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