The Smartest Guy in the world.. maybe

Just wanted to say, Sunspace, that I know right where youre coming from. I was also “one of the smart kids” and a “geek with glasses”. “Organized thuggery” - LOL! Just how I experienced it too. I didnt really enjoy school or social interaction til college, when apparently my emotional age caught up to my chronological age, and doing well academically was valued.

And Respectable, from what youve said it sounds like youre doing a fantastic job with your son. Just remember, you and yor husband know your son better than anyone who tries to criticize what you are or arent doing, and ultimately it has to be what you feel is best. I dont know your take on it, but I personally believe in God, and I say what a blessing that God says youre capable of parenting such an amazing child. Just keep doing what youre doing.

THE MERE FACT THAT MARILYN VOS SAVANT IS MENTIONED IN ANY WAY AS A GENIUS, OR CREDITS HERSELF AS BEING THE SMARTEST BEING TO HAVE EVER EXISTED, SHOWS THAT SHE ISN’T. THIS SUGGESTION ON HER PART, ASSUMES THE KNOWLEDGE OF KNOWING THE IQ, AND INTELLIGENCE OF EVERY BEING TO HAVE PREVIOUSLY EXISTED, WHICH OBVIOUSLY SHE DOESN’T.

MORE OVER, WHERE ARE HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS SOCIETY, OF ALL US “SMALL” FOLKS AS SHE REFERS TO US IN HER LAST INTERVIEW. SHES IS POMPOUS, AND SELF ABSORBED, AND NEVER WILL SHE HOLD THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SO MANY TRULY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE HAVE… WHICH IS TO BE GRATIOUS, AND HUMBLE, AND NOT TO ALIENATE YOUR SELF FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD. TO CLAIM TO HAVE BEEN THE BEST THERE EVER WAS, SHE SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST CONTRIBUTED FIRST, AND SHOWN US A LITTLE PROOF, INSTEAD OF HER CIRCUS TRICKS OF THE MIND. SHE SHOWS “BURST” INTELLIGENCE RATHER THAN A REAL APPLIED “MAINTAINABLE” INTELLIGENCE, LIKE THAT USED BY HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT PAST INTELLECTS. THEY MADE A LIFETIME DEDICATION TO IT, WHEREAS MARILYN VOS SAVANT… WAS ONLY SMART WHEN SHE WAS IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

SIDIS, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS LIKE MOST OF US, US THAT HAVE BEEN RIDDEN AND DEMANDED TO PRODUCE MIRACLES, FOR THE LAZY AND UNINVENTIVE REST OF SOCIETY. THE ONES WHO KNOW THE PRESSURE OF FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS, WHO CLAIM, “IF YOU DON’T GET STRAIGHT A’S, AND REINVENT THE WORLD, AND MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE, FOR FREE, OUT OF YOUR OWN POCKET, YOU ARE A FAILURE.” SIDIS, DECIDED THAT HE WOULD CHOOSE HIS EXISTENCE, AND THUS DID, AND LASHED OUT WHEN HE WAS MOCKED, AS HE SHOULD HAVE.

HE LEFT THE SPOTLIGHT BY CHOICE, THE FACT THAT IT FOLLOWED HIM, FOUND HIM IN OBSCURITY, AND THEN AGAIN TORMENTED HIM, SHOWS THE DECLINE OF OUR SOCIETY IN THE LAST 60 YEARS.

PERHAPS WE SHOULD LOOK AT OURSELVES AS A SOCIETY TO SEE WHY THE ABOVE INCIDENTS HAVE HAPPENED AS THEY DID.

FORMERAGENT, that was a nice response, but I have to ask if your “Caps Lock” key is stuck?


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Hi Jab 1! Nice to see your fishy feet again.

1975 James Gallagher’s Book: “Teaching the Gifted Child” (2nd edition) gives this result of a longitudingal study (Followed gifted children for years and years.)

…summarized the follow-up career performance of 800 men in his sample as follows:

The achievenment of the group at midlife is best illustrated by the case histories of the 800 men…By 1950, when the men had an average age of 40 years, they had published 67 books (46 in the filed of science, arts and the humanities, and 21 books of fiction). They had published more than 1400 scientific, technical, and professional articles; over 200 short stories, novelettes, and plays and 236 miscellanious articles on a great variety of subjects. They had also authorized more than 150 patents… pp.36

It was studies like this one that helped push the idea of setting aside time for gifted childen in schools, special schools and AP programs.

Doesn’t say how many did absolutely nothing.

Also noted that kids 155-180+ don’t fit well in normal school enviornments/children. W. S. may be in this crowd.

Remember Crick and Watson? Watson was thought to be too bright to be of much use?

BTW: Just for fun, think of the two MIT grads who do “Car Talk”? I’m sure everytime somebody in Boston hears that show he shakes his head over this pair.

Oh, I’m gonna keep using these #%@&* codes 'til I get 'em right.