How to Think Like a Genius 44-Questionable
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/06/03
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Does that leave it open to very much being questionable in terms of scores?
Rick Rosner: Well, the guy who wrote the test. The people who write the tests. One guy who writes high-end tests includes diligence or persistence, or conscientiousness, or detail oriented-ness among the various characteristics that are under the IQ umbrella, and when you look at the great works of genius throughout history and not including taking IQ tests, which is not a work of genius. But some works of genius have taken great effort over an extended period of time.
I don’t know how many years Einstein spent on General Relativity, but he started thinking about the universe — he was born in 1879. He starts thinking about the universe when somebody gives him a magnet when he is 5 or 6. By the time he is 26, he has been thinking about the universe. 26, 1905, he’s been thinking about the universe, or an educated view of the universe for 6, 7, 8 years, and then 10 years later General Relativity. He has put a decade into thinking about that and trying different approaches and math and getting bummed out and going after it.
That’s many, many years. I don’t know if anybody’s put any estimate on the number hours of thought and work it took Einstein to come up with General Relativity, but it would easily be in the several thousand. You can take an IQ test in 15 or 20 minutes and they’ll send you a score and these tests give you a somewhat inflated score hoping you’ll pay an extra ten or 15 or 20 bucks for a report — an extra detailed report, just for putting in your time you just get a number.
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