William James Sidis, the most intelligent person ever?
His life was destroyed by his parent's attempts at creating a genius.Young Sidis could read at 18 months. He'd written four books and was fluent in eight languages before he was eight. He gave a Harvard seminar on the fourth dimension at nine. He entered Harvard at eleven. He may've been the most intelligent person who ever lived.
Here is a partial list of William James Sidis' extraordinary capabilities and accomplishments:
1. Given IQ is a purely anthropocentric means of assessing intelligence, Sidis' IQ is crudely estimated at 250-300.
2. Infant Billy listened to Greek myths read to him by Sarah as bedtime stories.
3. Started feeding himself with a spoon at eight months (after two months of trial and error).
4. Cajoled by Boris, Billy learned to pronounce alphabetic syllables from blocks hanging in his crib.
5. At six months, Billy said, "Door." A couple months later he told Mom he liked things, doors and people, that move.
6. At seven months he pointed to Earth's moon and called it, "moon." He wanted a 'moon' of his own.
7. Mastered higher mathematics and planetary revolutions by age 11.
8. Learned to spell efficiently by one year old.
9. Started reading The New York Times at 18 months.
10. Started typing at three. Used his high chair to reach a typewriter. First composed letter was an order for toys from Macy's.
11. Read Caesar's Gallic Wars, in Latin (self-taught), as a birthday present to his Father in Billy's fourth year.
12. Learned Greek alphabet and read Homer in Greek in his fourth year.
13. Learned Aristotelian logic in his sixth year.
14. At six, Billy learned Russian, French, German, and Hebrew, and soon after, Turkish and Armenian.
15. Calculated mentally a day any date in history would fall at age six. Absolutely fascinated by calendars.
16. Learned Gray's Anatomy at six. Could pass a student medical examination.
17. Billy started grammar school at six, in 3 days 3rd grade, graduated grammar school in 7 months.
18. At age 8, Billy surpassed his father (a genius) in mathematics.
19. Corrected E. V. Huntington's mathematics text galleys at age of eight.
20. Total recall of everything he read.
21. Wrote four books between ages of four and eight. Two on anatomy and astronomy, lost.
22. Passed Harvard Medical School anatomy exam at age seven.
23. Passed MIT entrance exam at age eight.
24. Intellect surpassed best secondary school teachers.
25. At age 10, in one evening, corrected Harvard logic professor Josiah Royce's book manuscript: citing, "wrong paragraphs."
26. Attempted to enroll in Harvard at nine.
27. In 1909, became youngest student to ever enroll at Harvard at age 11.
28. In 1910, at age 11, lectured Harvard Mathematical Club on 'Four-Dimensional Bodies.'
29. Billy graduated from Harvard, cum laude, on June 24, 1914, at age 16.
30. Billy entered Harvard Law School in 1916.
31. Billy could learn a whole language in one day!
32. Billy knew all the languages (approximately 200) of the world, and could translate among them instantly!
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Originally posted by King Burger
You wish!Yes, women are more sly than men, and can hide what they're
thinking better than men, but that's mostly because men don't
give a flying s*** about being "mysterious".When a man and a woman meet, the woman will figure the man
out fatser than he will her, but only because he isn't playing any
"can you tell what I'm thinking?" games like she is.Creativity and imagination and scientific intellect both are equal?
Disagree. Genius in these areas is alot more likely to appear
among men than among women.Men and women are equally smart in everyday situations, but
in extraordinary situations, the man's mind was built to see
things more logically, and to solve practical problems.
your two first points seem remarkably shallow and generalized for a person of your gender and thus infinite intelligence.
when it comes to genius; yes, most great scientists, artists and the like are men, but that doesn't indicate that men are more brilliant than women or have a natural tendency to create 'genius genes'. it simply means that talented men through out history have been trained and have had their talents developed in ways, women haven't. there seems to be a tendency to see the 'geniuses' as people, blessed with a mission and a talent that can't be withheld and which has absolutely nothing to do with training, economical and social freedom. this just isn't true. male 'geniuses' have had the training, the money and the social freedom, women haven't had and still don't really have. men weren't forced and expected to stay home and look after the children. they could marry and still continue doing their art or research, without having to care about the household chores. if a woman wanted that kind of liberty, she simply had to avoid getting married, which is the same as saying fiving up her sexuality. this men didn't have to.
true, things have changed now and women have the opportunity to get the training and the freedom, they didn't use to have, and more and more take advantage of this. but still, there exist expectations and restrictions when it comes to the liberty of the genders, which makes it more difficult for women to prtogress than men. for example, married men have a better chance of getting a job than married women, simply because it's still women who do most of the house chores, thus relieving the man of a lot of stress. she, on the other hand, has therefore less chance of creating the new cure for cancer, or writing a masterpiece.
Nether gender is smarter, we all were born equal whether white or blake, female or male. Intelliegance is of are chosing to have, if we don't want to be smart we don't have to be smart. This is just like saying men can draw and a woman can't, its a gift given to us, not just to a certian gender. Men were given strength to protect women-who inturn cared for their children. That is our only full difference that can't change.
There is no more intellegent gender.
About the men being geniuses thing - men, in the western world, as far as I know, have been encouraged to learn and be the shapers of the world. Up until recently, women have been encouraged to be the housewife and stay at home, rather than engineers or scientist, whereas now, you can be whatever the hell you like.
Also, I dunno about you - but when I look at how girls are doing better at school than boys these days - I know why. While I was at school, if you were a boy, it was very uncool to be clever. There was a whole "thickness culture". My younger brother who has just left school and my youngest brother who is still at school say the same. The girls are never under pressure to be "stupid" because it does not matter to their life. This could be attributed to the fact girls mature quicker than boys, even though they take their exams and go through the learning process at the same time. There is something in society that is failing the boys. I did well at school, but I had many friends who could have done so much better, but were dragged down by their peers and their own immaturity. I also think it had a lot to do with the fact the boys were always trying to impress the girls, yet the girls weren't distracted the same way.
That is just observation on my part, and I am not saying that is the same globally, but it's certainly the case in modern western socety I think.
In my mind we are equal, we just go about things differently. Where man lacks, woman makes up for, where woman lacks, men make up for. It's a symbiotic relationship.
Originally posted by ninjababe
Nether gender is smarter, we all were born equal whether white or blake, female or male. Intelliegance is of are chosing to have, if we don't want to be smart we don't have to be smart. This is just like saying men can draw and a woman can't, its a gift given to us, not just to a certian gender. Men were given strength to protect women-who inturn cared for their children. That is our only full difference that can't change.There is no more intellegent gender.
No way man. I met this woman who was fukcing stupid as beaten shit. You would be hardpressed to find a male this stupid.
though my friend pete did dissapoint me. He hit a low for the male gender. We were watching the matrix, and he used to come over my house all the time during my second year in college and watch it on my t.v. I thought he was into and everything. He always spoke about all these philosophies and shit, that went defenintly to far. However, we were watching the flick again about a week ago. Near the end of the movie, Pete said some dumb ass shit. Some of the most dumb ass shit. Pete said..."so, they are all just really in virtual reality?"
yeah, but that still isnt as bad as that stupid ass girl who put gerbils inside of her because she thought it would make a nice den for them.
Originally posted by Line
your two first points seem remarkably shallow and generalized for a person of your gender and thus infinite intelligence.
Shallow, but oh so true.
Originally posted by Line
when it comes to genius; yes, most great scientists, artists and the like are men, but that doesn't indicate that men are more brilliant than women or have a natural tendency to create 'genius genes'. it simply means that talented men through out history have been trained and have had their talents developed in ways, women haven't. there seems to be a tendency to see the 'geniuses' as people, blessed with a mission and a talent that can't be withheld and which has absolutely nothing to do with training, economical and social freedom. this just isn't true. male 'geniuses' have had the training, the money and the social freedom, women haven't had and still don't really have. men weren't forced and expected to stay home and look after the children. they could marry and still continue doing their art or research, without having to care about the household chores. if a woman wanted that kind of liberty, she simply had to avoid getting married, which is the same as saying fiving up her sexuality. this men didn't have to.
true, things have changed now and women have the opportunity to get the training and the freedom, they didn't use to have, and more and more take advantage of this. but still, there exist expectations and restrictions when it comes to the liberty of the genders, which makes it more difficult for women to prtogress than men. for example, married men have a better chance of getting a job than married women, simply because it's still women who do most of the house chores, thus relieving the man of a lot of stress. she, on the other hand, has therefore less chance of creating the new cure for cancer, or writing a masterpiece.
Nonesense which even many feminists here don't buy.
There are differences between men and women, and they have
nothing to do with the environment. There have been plenty of
studies on children raised by "non-gender specific" house-holds,
and they end up showing the same mental differences and
behavior and preferences as other boys and girls.
Men are better at science in general. They are more
interested in how things work, and the building of things, than
women.
That's the way it was, that's the way it is, and that's the way it
always will be. A few decades of feminist brain-washing attempts
won't change millions of years of evolution.
Originally posted by ragesRemorse
No way man. I met this woman who was fukcing stupid as beaten shit. You would be hardpressed to find a male this stupid.though my friend pete did dissapoint me. He hit a low for the male gender. We were watching the matrix, and he used to come over my house all the time during my second year in college and watch it on my t.v. I thought he was into and everything. He always spoke about all these philosophies and shit, that went defenintly to far. However, we were watching the flick again about a week ago. Near the end of the movie, Pete said some dumb ass shit. Some of the most dumb ass shit. Pete said..."so, they are all just really in virtual reality?"
yeah, but that still isnt as bad as that stupid ass girl who put gerbils inside of her because she thought it would make a nice den for them.
😆 Gerbils???? Noo..that can't be true..