This is a question that has haunted mathematicians and physicists as well those in other high IQ professions. In 1927, physicist Paul Dirac, who won a Nobel Prize at age 31 for his work in quantum physics, wrote the following quatrain: Age is, of course, a fever chillThat every physicist must fear.He’s better dead than …
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Asking, “Which is more important, IQ or EQ?” is similar to asking, “Which tire on a car is more important, the front right or the front left tire?” To function effectively in life, we need some level of both cognitive acuity (measured as IQ) and emotional awareness (called “people skills” or EQ) The extent to …
En route to our discussion of ChatGPT, we have been providing a very brief summary of some of the milestones in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) that have brought us to a point where many computer scientists are advising that we declare a temporary halt to further development until we can establish some “guardrails” …
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In the previous post, Think You’re Intelligent? You Ain’t seen nothin’ Yet: Part I, (https://www.intelligence-and-iq.com/think-youre-intelligent-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet-part-i/) we traced the early stages of artificial intelligence (AI) en route to a discussion of the latest AI software ChatGPT (Generative, Pre-trained Generator) that is rocking the intellectual world. In that post we visited the defeat of chess master Gary …
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A few months ago, the latest innovation in artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, was released, creating a tsunami of controversy about its implications for news, education, politics and war. It has been described as a societal game-changer that may even exceed the impact of the printing press in granting to all humans access to information never before …
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IQ test scores are not particularly reliable for children at age 5 because children mature mentally at different rates. (Einstein was so late in learning to speak that his parents feared that he would never acquire language.) Between birth and early adulthood, the brain passes through significant periods of neural growth and pruning in which …
Today, in my site on Quora I received the following question from Jeremy Prusky. Mr. Kelly- for years I have been trying to understand how so many intelligent people like yourself put faith into the concept of the IQ test- and I’m wondering if you can finally convince me of the validity and worth, of …
How can you put faith in IQ tests when they are so flawed? Read More »
When children attend schools where there are gifted programs, the highly intelligent students are provided with instructional materials commensurate with their abilities. This groups them with students of similar intellect and interests. They become aware that they have higher than average intelligence and tend to be more motivated to develop this gift. When an egalitarian …
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In previous posts I have addressed the problems faced by many people who are intellectually gifted. Among these is a feeling of deep isolation that comes from the inability to be understood and the pain of being misunderstood. In this post, we will look briefly at the roots of this isolation and its implications for …
Peter, thank you for posing this question, because it will help clarify the meaning of IQ for many of our visitors. We’ll start first with the concept of intelligence and then address the concept of IQ. No one knows exactly what we mean by intelligence, but as Justice Potter Stewart of the US Supreme Court …
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