What is STUPID, though, is a site dedicated to how she is wrong. There is aan entire site dedicated to picking apart MvS's answer and how they're wrong (and how she doesn't write all her answers on her own). Get a LIFE, Herb Weiner, and while you're at it, get a better name! (I know you have a self-proclaimed AWESOME life. But not awesome enough for you to be secure? hmmm) Since when does having a high IQ imply infallibility? I wonder if there's a site picking apart your errors. If there were: #1 - get a better name.
What's even worse is that some of these supposed debunkings of MvS's answer are themselves stupid. Can a battleship float on a gallon of water? Mr. Weiner says theoretically no. Oops! Theoretically, yes of course. Then Mr. Weiner whines "oh but that's not remotely practical." Oops! What idiot would look at that question and infer that one wanted a practical answer? As with so many flawed arguments, Weiner man's critiques of MvS is decrepit in the exact same way as MvS's responses (if not more so). It also smacks less of intelligence to debunk MvS than intellectual insecurity. Mr. Weiner must have a small...confidence in his own smarts (I almost went there).
On the other hand, if you want to talk about really really like hella really freakish smarts: "Currently, a Japanese-Korean-American boy of 12 years of age is the current record holder of highest IQ title, so high that it is unmeasurable, but beyond IQ of 228. Currently, he graduated from Loyola university magna cum laud at the age of 12, and attends the University of Chicago Medical school on a full scholarship." sic galore in that quote but you get the idea. Freakishly smart, perhaps, but I wouldn't want to be the kid's psychologist...
Disclaimer: OK, not like I have a life since I'm writing about this but it's a rant. And I just wanted to stick in that factoid about the freaky 12 year old. He sees old people...
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i saw that 12 year old when i was interviewing at pritzker! he was very adorable, carrying his lunchbox and all.
Posted by: kathy at July 30, 2004 03:12 PM
Adoable, yes. Smart, yes. But young?!...yes. But I bet he can't be all three at the same time. In 30 years. (Ah ha!)
Please excuse the shameless joke stealing from gizmodo.
Posted by: Luke at July 30, 2004 04:07 PM
Hot damn. How can I get hold of one of *those* designer babies?
But you're quite right, Luke. In ten years time, he's just going to be a smarter-than-the-average-human adult, which really isn't such a novelty. And then what?
Posted by: Shryh at July 30, 2004 08:28 PM
I bet when designer babies come out, CK will go down the tubes. While other companies are busy promoting the fantastic qualities of their mass produced not-so-off-spring(onspring?), CK will be all "just baBE", which will be 1) a stupid pun and 2) a rather bad product since what does it really do?
Although seriously, I think that if said 12 year old is opportunistic enough, he could do very well for himself. Society places an emphasis on speed of accomplishments (sometimes over quality, it seems) so it's easy for him to play up the fact that he graduated with a perverted designation at the age of 12. And then, hey, if he becomes a good doctor, great. Doogie Howser II and Fox will probably try to make him do a reality TV show, only to have UPN turn it into a teenage angst show...and he'll also be black. He's sitting on a goldmine, really.
Posted by: Luke at July 31, 2004 01:48 AM
Or a timebomb, when his cuteness is blasted into smithereens. Society also has a 5 minute attention span and an unwritten rule where all things grown-up that have lost their awww-inducing qualities will be left with the nearest animal shelter.
It'll be a new low when we begin commercializing or marketing genius in the manner you described, though I can see no real reason to prevent that from happening. But will he be respected by his peers in academia if he's seen hitting on a nurse twice his age on national TV? Or if he's portrayed by a white actor in yellow-face in a made-for-TV movie? Questions, questions.
Posted by: Shryh at August 1, 2004 06:41 AM