Re: No Genius Left Behind

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt C.) writes:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Dodger) wrote in
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<> I'm more interested in "Motivational Quotient" or MQ, rather than
<> IQ.  That is what separates Nobel prize winners and other genii
<> from ordinary folk.  Richard Feyman supposedly had an average IQ,
<> but he worked like a demon to become a top physicist.
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<Feynman's 125 IQ says a lot more about the value of IQ tests than it does 
<about the intelligence of Feynman.  

And certainly there is not "intelligence" per se, there's a great assortment
of various brain functions, and it's possible to be blazingly good
at one and mediocre at the others.

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<You ought to read the autobiographical book Feyman wrote.  It's a fun read.  
<He did not work like a demon so he could become a top physicist; he played 
<around and did whatever seemed interesting and fun.  For him this happened 
<to include becoming a top physicist.

It is a fun read, and I think that stylistically it tends to illustrate
what I was trying to say -- Fenyman certainly comes across like
joe six-pack; if you didn't know about the physics, he wouldn't have
struck you as all that remarkable.


-- cary