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Before we compare the intelligence of these two brilliant individuals, I’ll share a story of their meeting taken from the book titled Intelligence: Intelligence: Where We Were, Where We Are, & Where We’re Going: In 1938, Claude Shannon, a 22-year old graduate student at MIT, provided a key link in turning Leibniz’s vision into a reality. …
Absolutely! During the past few decades, accumulating substantial wealth has been within the grasp of most people who are intelligent enough to learn a skill or develop a profession. The secret is to build wealth slowly, but surely, through maximizing your streams of income and minimizing your expenditures, while repeatedly investing the difference. Einstein is …
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The combination of intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, is said to constitute emotional intelligence (EQ). For those who have a high IQ, say 130 or greater, obtaining a correlation between IQ and EQ is mainly anecdotal because EQ is much more difficult than IQ to measure. Tests such as the MSCEIT, designed to measure emotional intelligence, are difficult to norm …
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There is general agreement among psychologists that intelligence is composed of two components: fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence. Fluid intelligence is related to neural efficiency, manifest in the ability to learn quickly, solve problems, comprehend abstract ideas, and retain information in short-term memory long enough to make connections. The more efficiently the brain is “hard-wired” in its neural …
How many people have a genius level IQ? Is it even possible to find them all and test them, if so how and where would you start looking for these rare individuals? The problem of estimating the number of people with genius level IQ in a particular country is much easier than testing everyone. For …
People who have a high IQ are usually aware that they learn more quickly than others. They are often very successful in school, and faster than others in mastering cognitive tasks. Through these experiences, they acquire confidence in their ability to think independent of others. This enables them to escape from accepted beliefs and “think …
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People with an IQ of 160 or more are in the 99.96 percentile. This means that there are 0.04% of the human population who score as well or better on IQ tests. If the world has about 8 billion people, then 0.04% x 8,000,000,000 = 3,200,000 people in the world have an IQ of 160 …
Is it possible for someone’s IQ to be as high as Albert Einstein or Elon Musk? Read More »
When people ask who has done the most to shape our world, we often think of those who have contributed the greatest technological advances. Certainly, the visionaries who launched the four Industrial Revolutions played a major role in reshaping our world. Beginning with the early steam-driven machines created by James Watt and Robert Fulton, to …
The brain of a young child grows at a prodigious rate. In a very short time, the child acquires verbal language, learns how to read and write, and absorb information quickly, retaining names and reciting snippets of television commercials with 100% accuracy. The child’s parents, having forgotten how quickly they acquired knowledge and skills during …
High intelligence is probably a prerequisite for genius, especially the kind of genius that is expressed in abstract fields like mathematics, physics and the other sciences, because measures of intelligence are highly correlated with performance in these fields. In the arts, high intelligence may be less important than a special creativity, skill or knowledge. Shakespeare’s …
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