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what makes a genius?

Autistamatic said:
Apparently there is a particular human gene (OR6A2) which determines whether or not you like parsley, coriander (cilantro?) and capers. My wife and I can't stand any of those, which is quite handy at dinner time :)
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Oh - me, too. Hate cilantro and capers, too. And does that same gene make you hate celery as well?
 
Not that I know of. I don't mind celery, not too keen on it raw but it's good suateed with carrots and onions as a base to something saucy like a chilli or smoky pork & beans :)
 
I've heard that saying also that a genius has no common sense.

I had a funny experience of my own in a gym with a woman I worked out with.
I had brought one of those big exercise balls in to have air put into it and she was talking about
the breakdown of a price she had paid for script sunglasses. Test, lenses, tints, frames, etc.
Her question was what did she pay per lense for two pairs. She was read off all the prices
that added up to the total and as she was reaching for her calculator I gave her the answer in
a split second.

You must be one of those math genius people! She said.
I replied, no, I don't like math actually.
Then she went on to talk about how she thought my actions and things I spoke about were "different".
So she concluded I must be a genius.
I told her my IQ tests always had been in that range, yes.

As I walked out the door with the big exercise ball, she offered to carry it to the car for me.
I got my keys and started looking all around the lot.
Uh, I had forgotten where I was parked.
She laughed and said that's a genius for you.
Intelligence with no common sense!

Funny or not, I guess there is something about the common sense factor?

But, if the test is to score intellectual ability, it would have to be carefully constructed
to measure that and that alone.
Not knowing something you've never been exposed to in life would not be an accurate test.
You could be a hermit monk and have very good reasoning skills and intellect,
yet having lived in isolation you might not know what the periodic table is. o_O
You might answer, " a table that is used only occasionally?"

I love a line from one of the Kung Fu series where a woman says to him:
"You know so little, yet so much."
 
SusanLR said:
I've heard that saying also that a genius has no common sense.

I love a line from one of the Kung Fu series where a woman says to him:

"You know so little, yet so much."
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"You are the dumbest smart person I've ever met!"

-Will Smith, "I Robot" :p
 
what makes a genius?

Loneliness, unless the genius are able to dumb down his proof of concept into transferable knowledge, so popular opinion can make believe of a possibly infinite complexity sound easy. Calling your self a genius are frowned upon, so unless you like frown, you have to be verified as a genius by someone else. Which means someone else have to understand your geniusness. And this have to be a genius to be valid. As long as you have enough humbug so only a few have the patience to learn, and when they get to the point they realized they have wasted their life, I can see it is tempting to try and validate oneself as a genius by validating someone else as a genius. In theory we could all be fooled and fooled again by the hierarchy of geniality.

@Autistamatic : Whaaaaat? I can't stand coriander, but I like parsley and capers (Tuna and capers for instance). It has to be a particulinary flawed gene.

@SusanLR : Oh, I hope I don't have a case of common sense. It's the worst.
 
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had an official IQ test at the local Autism centre in October 2017, and I still don't know my official score, all I do know is that the woman who tested me said I was one of the best she'd worked with, and that contrary to popular belief I am NOT retarded.
 
To me, real "genius" can only be determined by their "output". Not merely a benchmark like an intelligence quotient.

Picasso was a genius given his artistic ability. Mozart based on the music he created. Stephen Hawking based on his astrophysics...and so on.

-Output. What they tangibly created with their genius.
 
Watching a u-tube video on Mchael Ventis, was he a genius or just an Aspie with a proficiency. with languages.
 
Even though, I did actually test at what's considered genius levels, I have never felt a superior intelligence over others. I'm pretty sure that a high IQ just means that I can apply the correct answer quite a bit faster than whomever else. I was told that before, anyway. That said, I got to see a stage night live with Neil degrasse Tyson once, and I felt like his level of intelligence just towers over mine big time. He's awesome.
 
What a lot of people mistake for genius is just Aspie tendencies, not necessarily raw mental power which IQ does not really measure sort of my colour analogy no one number represents all colours. What I learned with colour one number can only represent color difference to a standard,
 
Shepherd boys had a high incidence of mathematical savants. They all had to count, and number patterns were one of the few interesting things to think about.
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see."
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
 
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