Brendan Kelly Ph.D.

Brendan Kelly is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He is author of over 50 books including the recent "Intelligence, IQ & Perception", and "Intelligence: Where we Were, Where we Are & Where we’re Going." He holds two doctorate degrees: a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Number Theory) from U. of T. and an Ed.D. in Computer Applications from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and he curates his site on Quora titled, “IQ & Intelligence.”

Why are humans so obsessed with comparing who is smart or stupid considering how there is no objective way to measure intelligence?

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While there is no perfect device for measuring general intelligence, g, the efficacy of IQ tests in predicting job capability and performance is well established in the research. Linda Gottfredson, one of the leading researchers in the implications of general intelligence, states: (Gottfredson, Linda S. “Why g Matters: The Complexity of Everyday Life.” 1997. Intelligence 24 …

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Why do so many senior citizens wish for a return to “The Good Old days?”

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During your early years, your brain was attempting to adapt to your environment. During your first two years of existence, the neurons in your brain were connecting at the rate of about 2 million synapses per second, so that by age 2 you had about 100 trillion synapses–about double the number you have now. In …

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What are the benefits and drawbacks of being in a class with other “gifted” students?

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One significant benefit of being in a class of gifted students is that you are less likely to be bullied. As evident in the biographies of people like Bezos, Musk, Jobs and others, children who are gifted have different interests from most others and therefore cannot self-reference to understand how others feel. In their early …

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Do people with high IQs really understand everything in life easily, or do they just pretend that everything is easy to understand?

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People of high IQ probably struggle more to understand things than people of average IQ. While this seems paradoxical, it is something that you will probably observe if you look at the people around you. People of high IQ believe that most, if not all, ideas and concepts that humans have developed are within their …

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What danger threatens those of high IQ?

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Many people of high IQ sail through life without serious psychological issues, while many others fall prey to psychological disorders and burnout. Yesterday (April 28) we celebrated the birthday of the brilliant Austrian logician, Kurt Gödel, whose incompleteness theorems challenged the foundations of mathematics. He later suffered from a paranoia that eventually led to his …

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