Trouble with Geniuses,

Part 1
Arkadiy Reydman
Nick Santana
Julian Smith
Period 1
Overview

At a certain point, IQ isnt really relevant

High IQs in comparison to each other
A mature scientist with an adult IQ of 130 is as likely to win a
Nobel Prize as is one whose IQ is 180.
Once youre classified as a genius, its all fair game and
everyone can seemingly accomplish the same thing
A basketball player only has to be tall enoughand the same is
true of intelligence. Intelligence has a threshold.
Overview Pt. 2

The aforementioned theory goes for schools as well

Last 25 winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine
Antioch and Gettysburg College
Schools dont define the knowledge and intelligence; the person
does
The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
Bottom Line
 Questions

10,000 Rule (Chris Langan)

High IQ People

Lewis Terman

Is a high IQ as important as that persons morals?

Most people and Companies

 Questions

Threshold

Test Scores vs. Quality

Divergence vs. Convergence Testing

Connections

Good Will Hunting- This movie is great representation of this

chapter. This movie is about a boy named Will Hunting who is an
orphan and grows up to be a trouble maker. As a job appointed by
his parole officer he works as a custodian at MIT. After completing
a proof that took the professor over 2 years to complete, people
soon started to realize what a genius Will was. He could complete
proofs that usually took days, months, even years, and in a couple
hours.
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A man named Henry Cowell is talked about in the book. He was raised in poverty
and was unschooled since the age of seven. Just like Will, Henry worked as a
custodian at a one room school house a few minutes from the Stanford Campus.
When he had free time he would sneak away and play the schools piano. He made
beautiful music without ever being taught how to play the piano. He was much
more intelligent than the average person and a future IQ test proved that.
Cowell scored a 140 which is just under being considered a genius. Keep in mind
that Einsteins IQ was 150, only ten points higher than Cowells.
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Text-to-world
Geniuses are all around us in the world. Some we may know, others we have not ever
heard of, but I can assure you that they are out there.
After reading this chapter and learning about all these different geniuses, one person
that comes to mind is Steve Jobs. He is an outlier.
He always chose the most unconventional way for doing things and thats what made
him stick out.
He dropped out of college to pursue his own dreams. He was a genius in his own way. He
didnt need an IQ test to prove it, he just let his action speak for himself.
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Text-to-text
This chapter was chock full of ideas. But the main point I think was that there are different types of
geniuses. In some cases there are literal geniuses. These are the people with the insanely high IQs
and high test scores. There are also the imaginative geniuses. The ones that let there actions and
imaginations speak for themselves. Both each type of genius is just as successful as the other,
although the circumstances may be different.
A book that I feel relates greatly to these ideas is a book by the name City of Ember. This book is
about an underground society whose only source of electricity is from this huge generator.
The two main characters Lina and Doon are both geniuses and of course, outliers. They solve this
big elaborate puzzle to gain knowledge about this odd place, Ember. After solving this huge puzzle,
they find themselves outside in the real world only to find out that the city of Ember was an
entirely underground city. They are not geniuses because of how high their IQs are. Theyre
geniuses because of their imaginations; because they think differently than all the others
surrounding them. Even those who are proclaimed geniuses.