and against people who want to do things which are directly connected to their goals.
This, however, I do believe.
Despite Richard Feynman’s supposedly low IQ score, and Albert Einstein’s status as the popular exemplar of high-IQ, my impression (prejudice?) regarding traditional “IQ tests” is that they would in fact tend to select for people like Feynman (clever tinkerers) at the expense of people like Einstein (imaginative ponderers).
I’m not sure about this. I doubt I would do all that well on a Mensa-type IQ test, and I suspect ADD may be part of the reason. (Though SarahC has raised the possibility of motivated cognition interfering with mathematical problem solving, which I hadn’t really considered.)
This, however, I do believe.
Despite Richard Feynman’s supposedly low IQ score, and Albert Einstein’s status as the popular exemplar of high-IQ, my impression (prejudice?) regarding traditional “IQ tests” is that they would in fact tend to select for people like Feynman (clever tinkerers) at the expense of people like Einstein (imaginative ponderers).
While I’m passing through looking for something else: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1159719
I was generalizing from one example—it’s easier for me to focus on a series of little problems. If I have ADD, it’s quite mild as such things go.