Robert Lato's Logima Strictica 36. IQ Tests | IQ Tests and Intelligence Tests. Www.gutenberg.org/files/28626/28626-0.txt. Does Super-High IQ = Super-Low Common Sense? We have all heard the term “Nutty Professor,” which brings to mind the highly intelligent yet socially inept individual; excelling in the academic world, yet failing miserably in the realm of common sense.
Is there an evolutionary explanation for why this phenomenon exists? Bruce Charlton, editor-in-chief of the journal Medical Hypotheses, says “yes”. He calls these people ‘Clever Sillies’ in his article, “Clever Sillies—Why the High IQ Lack Common Sense.” Charlton proposes that high IQ is not just a cognitive ability, but also a cognitive disposition. He says: My suggested explanation for this association between intelligence and personality is that an increasing relative level of IQ brings with it a tendency differentially to over-use general intelligence in problem-solving, and to over-ride those instinctive and spontaneous forms of evolved behaviour which could be termed common sense. He goes on to explain why he feels this trait explains ‘clever silliness’: An Unfulfilled Life: How High Intelligence Has Led To My Love/Hate Relationship With Work. I don't like to write about intelligence. It is one of those topics that for some reason seems taboo.
My experience has been that people get angry, defensive, and critical when I bring it up. But I want to break my own rules today and talk about it because I read this article about career advice for geniuses and began reflecting on my own unfulfilling work history. I began to wonder if many of you read this blog because you view the world much like I do. Many of you are probably quite intelligent and as such have lived through a series of similarly unfulfilling jobs. The post is divided into three parts. I will say upfront that entrepreneurship may be an excellent path for highly intelligent people interested in business, because it requires analysis and decision making on many different levels with different time frames and different problem domains – everything a genius really wants. 1.
I went to college and majored in Electrical Engineering, but I often found the classes boring. 2. Challenges for Persons With a High IQ. Having a High IQ. One thing I know is that your IQ is only part of who you are. It does not determine your wealth or your happiness. It does not make your life easier and it does present many challenges, especially if you don’t know why you are different. Many times in my life I have thought to myself, “I just want to be normal”! I felt so often unhappy, isolated and misunderstood. In my teenage years, I would stay up late at night gazing out the windows of our house and thinking, “Is there something wrong with me? You might have said to me, “But, there is no normal. This is why I want to help others who are also dealing with having a high IQ. IQ: Is high IQ a curse. Pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/GiftedProblems.pdf. Intellectual giftedness.
Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. It is a characteristic of children, variously defined, that motivates differences in school programming. It is thought to persist as a trait into adult life, with various consequences studied in longitudinal studies of giftedness over the last century. There is no generally agreed definition of giftedness for either children or adults, but most school placement decisions and most longitudinal studies over the course of individual lives have been based on IQ in the top 2 percent of the population, that is above IQ 130. The various definitions of intellectual giftedness include either general high ability or specific abilities. For example, by some definitions an intellectually gifted person may have a striking talent for mathematics without equally strong language skills.
Identifying giftedness[edit] Overview[edit] Definitions of giftedness[edit] In Identifying Gifted Children: A Practical Guide, Susan K. The Mysteries of ADD and High IQ. We recently published a study of 117 high IQ children and adolescents with ADD. (Note: In this article, the term ADD is used to refer to both ADD and ADHD ). All of these very bright students were struggling in school and often also in social relationships because of their ADD-related problems. Results from that study uncovered a pattern of vulnerabilities in executive functions, the management system of the brain , that caused these bright students to have chronic difficulty in focusing on their work, in getting their work done adequately, in keeping in mind what they had just heard or read, and in organizing and completing assignments.
Some have been mystified as to how very bright students could suffer from ADD. They assume that being smart protects a person from the difficulties associated with ADD. This study shows that it doesn't. Here are 5 questions that our research team repeatedly encountered from high IQ kids and their parents and teachers: 1. No! 2. 3. 4. 5. 5 Unexpected Downsides of High Intelligence. You're More Likely to Believe Bullshit Getty We're sure that at some point, someone has told you that you can't get anywhere without an education, and for the most part, they're right. And you're much more likely to pursue that education if you're starting out with a high IQ. According to renowned intelligenceologists who painstakingly measured every goddamn thing that you can associate with IQ, test scores were "the best single predictor of an individual's years of education.
" Photos.comThough some measurements were admittedly questionable. Why? So What's the Problem? It turns out that all this book learnin' is teaching you more than just the Pythagorean theorem -- it's also making it easier for you to believe some laughably wrong and even seriously weird stuff. Via Mastermarf.com One problem is that education leads to one overall inaccurate belief: You think you're smarter than you are. Via Smartiq.comWhoa! You're More Likely to Be Self-Destructive Makes sense. Photos.com"Duuuuude. Disadvantages of high IQ. Having a high IQ is not always good news Mensa Magazine June 2009 pp 34-5 Bruce G Charlton There are so many advantages to having a high IQ that the disadvantages are sometimes neglected – and I don’t mean just short-sightedness, which is commoner among the highly intelligent. It really is true that people who wear glasses tend to be smarter! High IQ is, mostly, good for you First it is worth emphasizing that high IQ is mostly very good for you.
This has been known since Lewis Terman’s 1920s follow-up study of Californian high IQ children revealed that they were not just cleverer but also taller, healthier and more athletic than average; and mostly grew-up to become wealthy and successful. Professor Ian Deary of Edinburgh University has confirmed that both health and life-expectancy improve along with increasing IQ. Indeed, Geoffrey Miller has put forward the idea that IQ is a measure of biological fitness. Sidis and the problems of ultra-high IQ However, high IQ is not always beneficial.