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How is a person’s worth measured? Can anyone truly have a quantifiable value?

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There is no absolute standard for measuring a person’s worth because there is no universal agreement on what constitutes “worth.” Furthermore, a person’s worth is assessed differently by different people and different generations. Worth as an absolute measure If we grow up in a family that values education, we tend to adopt those values and …

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What are some common characteristics that distinguish elite athletes from other athletes, such as high IQs?

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Sports psychologists are recognizing that excellence in sports is more mental than physical. In his book Empowerment: The Competitive Edge in Sports, Business & Life, psychologist Gene Landrum profiled 13 of the world’s greatest athletes, from Jim Thorpe to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. In his in-depth study of the personality and cerebral qualities that led …

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What is the percentage of people who have abnormal intelligence or personality type?

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We have some fairly precise information about the percentage of people who have abnormal intelligence as measured by IQ, but much less information about the percentages of people of various personality types. The normal curve, that displays the distribution of IQ, across the human population, shows the IQ percentiles from 0 to an upper bound …

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Are there certain professions that require a high level of intelligence, such as doctors or senior engineers?

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There are some professions that require a very high level of intelligence and others that merely require a higher-than-average level of intelligence. Furthermore, there is a great deal of variation in intelligence within the professions. (Statisticians would say that the variance in intelligence within a profession is greater than the variance in intelligence between professions.) …

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Can you explain the Concept of Emotional intelligence (EQ) and how it works? Did Einstein have a high or low EQ?

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The Meaning of the term “Emotional Intelligence.” Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, that appeared in 1936 during the Great Depression, sold more than 15 million copies and became the seminal work in the art of salesmanship. In his book, Carnegie stressed the importance of empathizing with your client, seeing things from his …

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How do “Math Geniuses” differ from most intelligent people?

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Historical evidence seems to suggest that all math geniuses are intelligent, but not all intelligent people are math geniuses. Many people who are intellectually brilliant have a capacity for abstraction and pattern discovery that would enable them to solve deep problems in mathematics. However, they often have different interests and their mathematical capabilities are never …

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Is a high intelligence quotient (IQ) inherited from parents genetically or influenced by environmental factors such as parenting style and childhood development?

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Our intellectual potential, like all our physical characteristics is contained in our DNA. However, environmental factors play a very significant role in determining the extent to which we reach that potential. The connection between genes and intelligence was established unequivocally by Bouchard and others during the 1990’s in their study of identical twins who were …

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How would the world change if the average human IQ suddenly increased to 1000? How long would it take for society to adapt to this change?

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As people of IQ less than 200, it’s difficult for us to imagine how a society might look if our species were magnitudes more intelligent than we are today. Our evolution has hard-wired us for survival and with that has come what psychologists call “ingroup-outgroup” cognitive bias. In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin describes …

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Is it possible for intuition to give warnings or predict events before they happen? Do all individuals possess this ability but may not be aware of it?

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In the early part of the 20th century, there was a reluctance to talk about either the subconscious or the unconscious. Their existence was somewhat suspect, simply because, by definition, the unconscious is not observable. However, by the late 20th century, experiments in cognitive science had revealed that the unconscious is, indeed, an important element …

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What is the Highest Possible Score on an Official Intelligence test? What is your Personal score?

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A common misunderstanding of IQ is that it’s an absolute measure like time or distance. Actually, IQ is a comparative measure that expresses your performance on an IQ test relative to all the others who have taken the same test. People like to attribute high IQ’s to brilliant people. For example, the Terence Tao a …

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