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Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart

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Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart

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Post by kakooljay » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 3:35 PM UTC

Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart
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Post by RiderOfGiraffes » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 3:46 PM UTC

Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917428

Re: Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart

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Post by PJGNasty » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 4:03 PM UTC

Define Smart, and maybe we'd be getting somewhere. Bobby Fischer and the Unibomber are two of the highest IQ's in recent history.

I think of IQ as mental processing power. If you're running bad software, or missing a contextual understanding, it doesn't help much.

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