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Re: Top 1% on IQ DOES mean "genius."
Well, you are a genius in the technical sense of the term. But IQ doesn't necessarily have as much to do with "intelligence" as conventionally understood; I described IQ as a capacity thing. It's like, the size of a pitcher; most people have a half-gallon size pitcher, and we have, like 3/4 gallon pitchers.
But what you do with the pitcher actually is much more interesting to people. No one's gonna care about a 3/4 gallon pitcher if it's full of rancid strawberry yoo-hoo, for instance. Fortunately most people do fill their pitchers with something better, like lemonade or sangria. But conversationally we just reserve "wow, that person's a genius" for someone who's come up with something really interesting for their pitcher, regardless what size it is. And coming up with something super for your pitcher involves many other factors aside from just its size.
Well, you are a genius in the technical sense of the term. But IQ doesn't necessarily have as much to do with "intelligence" as conventionally understood; I described IQ as a capacity thing. It's like, the size of a pitcher; most people have a half-gallon size pitcher, and we have, like 3/4 gallon pitchers.
But what you do with the pitcher actually is much more interesting to people. No one's gonna care about a 3/4 gallon pitcher if it's full of rancid strawberry yoo-hoo, for instance. Fortunately most people do fill their pitchers with something better, like lemonade or sangria. But conversationally we just reserve "wow, that person's a genius" for someone who's come up with something really interesting for their pitcher, regardless what size it is. And coming up with something super for your pitcher involves many other factors aside from just its size.
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