Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
by netrus on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:40PM
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I always think that is such a weird party trick that it is strange that savants develop it ob their own. You have to be a genius to do that without a structured system - but everyone can do that given an hour or two to remember the first day of the week for every decade, the number of days oer quarter%7, etc.
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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:53PM
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The guys who wrote Peak are probably sub-geniuses then, because they think some savants have figured out a system. In the book they call it mental representation. It's the obsessive ones who develop the skill, some just remain autistic and that's it. They would say it is our bias and desire to believe in magic that predispose us to believe these people are just gifted.