<p>You know what? here is a simple thing.
In our country I read about a 5 year old boy who could play computer games. I can’t exactly remember what the article contained, but it was something like he had played numerous games and he could customize the screen resolutions, open and close applications. This kid was labeled as a gifted child by a doctor. it is stupid I think to consider results in school and early childhood to label someone as genius. Every student in 1-8th grade isn’t totally aware of results in school. So, academics can’t be useful measurement of true genius people at taht age.</p>
<p>Some people won’t even consider people like Muhammad Yunus as a genius but he is one I think.</p>
<p>Most people could study physics every day for a lifetime and the idea that gravity is the result of curved spacetime simply would not occur to them.</p>
<p>If we could accurately measure intelligence, would doing well on a test be enough to be considered a genius, or would you have to actually accomplish something too? How do we determine the genius status of people who didn’t reach their full potential because of their circumstances?</p>
<p>I don’t know what genius is.
I happen to do very well on SAT and classroom tests … but I feel I am scratching the surface of knowing something more…I actually feel pretty dumb about a lot of stuff.</p>
<p>So If I had to pick, I would choose a good work ethic and a warm heart. I feel if I do my chores in life and do it with a smile then I’ll fit in with most people… but being a genius doesn’t mean people will like me.</p>
<p>Well what are we rating them “above” on? How successful they are? I think it really all depends, a hard working person can be just as successful as a lazy genius. </p>
<p>It depends on what they pursuit and what they think of success wise.</p>
<p>@halcyon
I’m referring to children and academic tests since they’re largely influenced by circumstance. For example, a bright but poor kid might score lower on the SAT than a rich and mediocre one with a tutor.</p>
<p>Mensa’s cutoff is 131 on IQ tests with a standard deviation of 15 (i.e. most).</p>
<p>Maybe it makes more sense to define an act of genius as an extremely creative and elegant design than to define a genius as a person with some kind of aptitude.</p>
<p>i think the modern definition of genius includes having used high intelligence to accomplish something unique (whether executing an idea better than others or einstein territory stuff)</p>
<p>First of all, lets look at the definition of a genius. I hate it when people consider someone with a 4.0 or + smart. It isn’t hard to get an A in a class as all you have to do is pay attention and stare at a book for three hours(Ik, I have done it). That seems like the definition of a hard worker. A genius, in my opinion, is someone who is able to contribute to humanity in a certain subject or overall improvement. By this I mean people who win noble prizes for curing diseases or discovering something that will help improve our society. People who look past the requirements and take it one step further and spark ingenuity.</p>
<p>There are many people who have become extremely successful but we wouldn’t consider them geniuses. However, success correlates with precociousness- for example Kesha scored a 1500 out of 1600 on her SATs and Lady Gaga was in JHU CTY and attended NYU. Perhaps those aren’t the best examples, but they are extremely successful.</p>
<p>In correspondence to Sg, he’s right; implying the fact that you don’t have to be a genius to be successful. Furthermore, there could be a large multitude of the definition of a “genius”. It’s because of this is why this whole controversy started in the first place.</p>