Genius vs. Hard Work

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Technically if you consider a genius someone Mensa-level, then 2% of people are geniuses (98th percentile). In a typical school of 3000, that’s quite a few actually, so what drexter said is perfectly valid. Even if your standards are higher, it’s hard to tell exactly what people’s IQs are unless you go around asking them (don’t).</p>

<p>But a lot of people would say a genius is someone like Mozart or Einstein. And those geniuses actually worked extremely hard, so re: the original point of the thread, both are important.p

Oh, I forgot to define what genius meant. I was defining it to be an IQ of 160 or above, which might be somewhat arbitrary.</p>

<p>I guess if we define it that low (only requiring an invitation to Mensa), a ton of people are geniuses.</p>