How high is “high-IQ” and how low is “low IQ” in your book?
I don’t have specific ranges in mind, but I think I’d call grad-student level sufficiently high-IQ.
smart outsider coming in and overturning a well-established scientific principle
Not necessarily overturning a principle, but rather opening up new directions to expand into. How about Woz, Jobs, Gates, all that crowd? They were outsiders—all the insiders were at IBM or, at best, at places like Xerox PARC.
Almost every aspect of modern life, even for a polymathic genius, is going to be at least partially mysterious
Of course, but you don’t trust a process you don’t understand. You trust either people or the system built around that process. If your doctor gives you a pill to take, you trust your doctor, not the biochemistry which you don’t understand. If you take a plane across the Atlantic, you trust the system that’s been running commercial aviation for decades with the very low accident rate.
How about Woz, Jobs, Gates, all that crowd? They were outsiders
They were outsiders of business companies, not of science. It’s not like Gates never learned math at school, and then miraculously proved Fermat theorem in his dreams. It’s more like he took mostly some else’s work, made a few smart business decisions, and became extra rich.
I don’t have specific ranges in mind, but I think I’d call grad-student level sufficiently high-IQ.
Not necessarily overturning a principle, but rather opening up new directions to expand into. How about Woz, Jobs, Gates, all that crowd? They were outsiders—all the insiders were at IBM or, at best, at places like Xerox PARC.
Of course, but you don’t trust a process you don’t understand. You trust either people or the system built around that process. If your doctor gives you a pill to take, you trust your doctor, not the biochemistry which you don’t understand. If you take a plane across the Atlantic, you trust the system that’s been running commercial aviation for decades with the very low accident rate.
They were outsiders of business companies, not of science. It’s not like Gates never learned math at school, and then miraculously proved Fermat theorem in his dreams. It’s more like he took mostly some else’s work, made a few smart business decisions, and became extra rich.