Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by gleenn on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:13PM (#21255253)

I'd like to add to not saying "you're so smart," you should say "wow it looks like you worked really hard at that." Makes the kid realize that's what's important, the effort.

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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by dragontamer on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:18PM (#21261811)

I disagree on "effort counts".

In practice and in the work place, the only thing that matters is if you get your work done or not. You can spend a lot of effort on things and get almost nothing done... I know programmers who spent 2+ years on custom unit-testing solutions (and I guess management never noticed this guy was spinning his wheels on something that has been solved in multiple github projects or something...)

Just because he put a lot of work in doesn't mean that other engineers respected his work or even he got anything done. All it means is that he wasted 2-years on the project.

That's real life.

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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by chrisco255 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:23AM (#21256825)

But is it the case in life that effort is always rewarded? No. Look you can invest an incredible amount of effort into constructing a bridge. If it collapses and kills people, nobody cares about how much effort went into it. It was a faulty design.

Human civilization is advanced by working smarter, not harder.

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