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 Did Galton Believe intelligence was an inherited trait?

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Before Darwin’s publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, most human characteristics such as talent, personalities, and moral behaviors were thought to be acquired through environmental influences such as family, education, cultural training, and other factors described as “nurture.” However, Darwin had observed that many physiological characteristics in animals are …

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Can you be intelligent and still have self- doubt?

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Actually, the very unintelligent may be the only people who have never experienced self-doubt. Their unawareness of the information they are lacking, enables them to proceed without concern, until they meet with disaster. Those who possess self-efficacy and belief in their ability to achieve their goals have experienced the self-doubt that prompts them to strive …

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How does the genius of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs compare with the more theoretical geniuses behind the computer (i.e., von Neumann, Turing, Godel)?

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Genius has many different faces. Newton, Einstein, von Neumann, Turing and Gödel were geniuses in their ability to think in the abstract and use mathematics to formulate their ideas. Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison were inventive geniuses, and Mozart and Bach displayed a genius for music.  Bill Gates and Steve Jobs each displayed a …

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How are Hi-Q People Similar and Different from the Average in Reaching Opinions?

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The Difference  During their formative years, Hi-Q people often experience success in school, receiving the approval of teachers and regular affirmation of their cognitive strengths. They become more confident in their ability to figure things out for themselves. With this, comes a habit of forming their own opinions, independent of the in-groups to which they …

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Why Don’t Schools Teach Real-World Math?

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We hear this question from young people who struggle with the abstract challenges of mathematics and see no immediate payoff from the study of algebra. Indeed, mathematics has been described as the subject of infinitely deferred gratification, because its rewards don’t appear before a certain level of facility is achieved. A similar complaint is registered …

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What character traits do the world’s richest people have in common?

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Those who have accumulated wealth, rather than inherited it, share certain character traits that are manifest in a variety of different forms. Though some have accumulated substantial wealth through employment and investment, almost all the world’s billionaires are entrepreneurs. When we look at the character traits of these entrepreneurs, what do we discover? At the …

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Do You Have the entrepreneurial personality?

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In 1977, when Gene Landrum, was building the prototype for the Chuck E. Cheese chain of restaurants, and installed a ball-crawl apparatus within the restaurant, conventional restauranteurs were aghast. Many said the idea was absurd, because allocating space to a children’s playground in a restaurant was not cost effective. Others said the noise would interfere …

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How do you find what you consider experts/the most intelligent thinkers?

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Over 2300 years ago, Aristotle wrote in Nicomachean Ethics: Although the young may be experts in geometry and mathematics and similar branches of knowledge, we do not consider that a young man can have Prudence. The reason is that Prudence includes a knowledge of particular facts, and this is derived from experience, which a young …

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