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4012128 No.4012128 [Reply] [Original]

You will never be as smart as William James Sidis

>Abraham Sperling, director of New York City's Aptitude Testing Institute, said after Sidis's death that according to his calculations, Sidis "easily had an IQ between 250 and 300", meaning that at some time his intellectual age was 2.5 to 3 times his actual age (not the same scale as modern deviation IQ[24]). There was no evidence that his intellect had declined in adulthood.[25]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis

>> No.4012133

>IQ
>smart
leave /sci/, now.

>> No.4012141

>>4012133

Look at his accomplishments. The IQ wasn't even tested, it was assumed to be that high because of what he did. Same thing they did to Einstein (who never took the IQ test).

>> No.4012145

/lit/ - raid /sci/

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4012147

>>4012133
>thinks IQ is insignificant despite massive amounts of research to the contrary
>ignores the past century statistical and scientific data on intelligence

Oh wow, and you're telling ME to leave /sci/?

>> No.4012150

>>4012145

No-ones buying your bullshit about /lit/ raiding. Goodluck trying to get us to raid another board for no fucking reason. Fucking douchebag.

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4012170

>You will never be as funny, intelligent, successful, or praised as Voltaire

I tried to find a sad picture of him to capture that statement, but the deservedly smug bastard couldn't be caught without a smirk on his face.

>> No.4012171

if he was so smart, how come he's dead?

>> No.4012189

>>4012171
this times ten.

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4012197

>>4012171

>> No.4012228

>>4012147
Shows how useless IQ is when he barely did anything with his intelligence while Einstein and Tesla kicked his ass in contributions to society through hard work and testing. All while only having a portion of the IQ Sidis had.

>> No.4012269

>psychiatrist
>knew 40 languages
>wrote on topics ranging from cosmology to american indian history
>cosmological writings had to do with time reversibility.

fuck, this guy's Hannibal Lecter.

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4012298

>IQ test done after the person is dead

>> No.4012301

>highly intelligent
>socialist

makes sense

>> No.4012322

>>4012128
>Socialist
>Quit school twice
>Fired once
>couldn't maintain proper social relationships and lived like a hermit

Jesus, it's like the epitome of every stereotypical story of gifted children.

>> No.4012329

>>4012322
was he in mensa?

>> No.4012343

>>4012329
He lived before Mensa was around.

>> No.4012353

>>4012329
No, it wasn't formed back then but I bet he would have joined. Guy seemed like a person who wanted to prove to everyone that he was intelligent.