A Mathematician's Secret: We're Not All Geniuses

Re:A Mathematician's Secret: We're Not All Geniuses by avip on Sunday June 11, 2017 @04:41PM (#14533683)

Someone has to build the confusion matrix for the geniuses "> 130 IQ" classifier.

I mean, if you have a definition for "a genius" that likely ends up excluding Bach, Escher, Darwin - then something's fishy about your definition.

In terms of communicating with the others, that's akin to having a definition for "great basketball player" to which Jordan doesn't fit.

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Re:A Mathematician's Secret: We're Not All Geniuses by Retric on Sunday June 11, 2017 @05:44PM (#14533950)

Darwin was something of a plodder who get's a lot of great press. He did not really come up with the idea of evolution, just came up with more support, a convincing argument, and most importantly communicated this to a wide range of people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_though...

It's kind of the great man argument taken to the extreme.

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