As Stephen Hawking says about IQ:
"Q: What is your I.Q.?
"A: I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12QUESTIONS.html
bd 2673 days ago [-]
"Symptoms of the disorder first appeared while he was enrolled at Cambridge; he lost his balance and fell down a flight of stairs, hitting his head. Worried that he would lose his genius, he took the Mensa test to verify that his intellectual abilities were intact."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#Illness
tvon 2673 days ago [-]
While an interesting snippet, I don't see how it relates to the comment you responded to.
queensnake 2672 days ago [-]
-- he obviously cared about his IQ /at the time/ if he took the test. If he really didn't care he could have just tackled some physics problem and seen if it felt the same (or something).
tokenadult 2672 days ago [-]
And subsequently he appears to have decided that having actual accomplishments as a physics researcher and as a popular author on science is much more significant than his IQ score. In other words, what he thinks after he learned more and had real-world experience is that boasting about IQ is for losers, as he said in the much more recent interview.
zck 2672 days ago [-]
There's a difference between caring about -- or knowing -- one's IQ, and boasting about it.
nailer 2672 days ago [-]
Also there are smart people who haven't achieved much in their life. Sometimes I think I'm one of them.
Ultimately one's achievements mean more than their mental capacity.
dkarl 2672 days ago [-]
I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
I love that quote, but I love this one from the article, too:
She was just another person trying to make it in New York. The fact that she had this credential just gave her something different and I remember thinking, "How can we cash in on it?"
That's from the guy who suggested she use her IQ to make herself famous. To him it was just a way to sell books.
amichail 2673 days ago [-]
Preoccupation with IQ is not for losers. But we also live in a world where computers augment our cognitive abilities. And so any measure of intelligence should probably be a combined measure of brain + computer.
Reports of his IQ is about 160. He is gifted in his realm of study. Other high IQ persons have other specialties of genius. My brother has tested at 188. He is working on revising Einstein's Theory of Relativity to replace "time" with the constant rate of entropy. It will take time to convince the scientific community to accept this new standard.
I am better suited in creative thinking and problem solving. I also have a photographic memory for sight, sound and smell. Every person is different in their skill sets.
The gilligan thread went bye bye.
