I believe it does but from what I’ve seen of those that are classified as “high intelligence” people, well, it’s not great.
Those that have been “gifted” their whole lives tend to be sheltered, and seem to live in their own little bubble of self reassurance that they’re special and smart.
There’s a few stand out people that I would cite as actually intelligent and made good use of their intelligence. Einstein, Tesla (the person, not the company), Hawking…
These are highly intelligent people that focused their efforts on a specific field of study and excelled.
General intelligence without any focus, you become quite good at a number of things but never truly great at anything.
There’s a whole culture of people who consider themselves to be more intelligent than the rest of us; I’ve only experienced small parts of it and bluntly, the smartest people I know, who could easily be in that genius category, reject it because they don’t want to associate with the prominent people in that community (or anyone in that community).
In addition to this an IQ test is bullshit. You can be the smartest person in the world and “fail” an IQ test, if it’s presented in a way that you can’t comprehend… Like if the test is in French and you don’t speak/read/write any French at all.
Even those that administer IQ tests know they’re basically meaningless.
The while thing is a crock of shit if you ask me. I have no doubt in my mind that there are highly intelligent/high IQ people that genuinely exist. I don’t think they’re standing in line for an IQ test to prove it.
I believe it does but from what I’ve seen of those that are classified as “high intelligence” people, well, it’s not great.
Those that have been “gifted” their whole lives tend to be sheltered, and seem to live in their own little bubble of self reassurance that they’re special and smart.
There’s a few stand out people that I would cite as actually intelligent and made good use of their intelligence. Einstein, Tesla (the person, not the company), Hawking…
These are highly intelligent people that focused their efforts on a specific field of study and excelled.
General intelligence without any focus, you become quite good at a number of things but never truly great at anything.
There’s a whole culture of people who consider themselves to be more intelligent than the rest of us; I’ve only experienced small parts of it and bluntly, the smartest people I know, who could easily be in that genius category, reject it because they don’t want to associate with the prominent people in that community (or anyone in that community).
In addition to this an IQ test is bullshit. You can be the smartest person in the world and “fail” an IQ test, if it’s presented in a way that you can’t comprehend… Like if the test is in French and you don’t speak/read/write any French at all.
Even those that administer IQ tests know they’re basically meaningless.
The while thing is a crock of shit if you ask me. I have no doubt in my mind that there are highly intelligent/high IQ people that genuinely exist. I don’t think they’re standing in line for an IQ test to prove it.