I was more referring to him not being challenged by the school system.
Socially—surely one could find online smart individuals to talk with, about common interests, and I’m sure he wouldn’t care so much about the age gap. People with interest in computer graphics, programming, and/or mathematics contact me routinely, and I am not even particularly visible. Some are just interested kids. Dunno what his interests are though. edit: if he has a hobby, he could met other smart individuals through it. He can participate in some contests—now with the internet one can do it worldwide—though contests are kind of a distraction.
Yes, finding smart individuals is the goal of this post, and it appears that he has people who aren’t his age to talk to.
However, real-life (i.e. meat) friends of a similar age (and similar intellectual ability & background) are probably the most important friends: for young people, an age gap of 2 or 3 or 4 years can mean a huge gulf in experience and physical development; so that they will always be the “baby” of the group, even if they are intellectual equals. This means that things like, for example, dating and sex don’t really work (maybe not particularly important for the kid in question right now, but it is likely to be more relevant in a few years).
Well, its not very possible to help with real life aspect of it, without being from this town. The genetic solutions are easy to propose for that disabled kid, not so much for that smart kid.
Still, consider: 1 in ~1000 kids got IQ of ~150 or better *, so if there’s several thousands kids his age in that town there got to be someone about as smart, now how to go about meeting them, well local math competition can do, or the like. The question is—what does this kid actually do? What interests him?
which is about the point where IQ tests begin to lose meaning.
Your point is very good, but I think this post is more about the social (rather than intellectual) development of the kid in question.
I was more referring to him not being challenged by the school system.
Socially—surely one could find online smart individuals to talk with, about common interests, and I’m sure he wouldn’t care so much about the age gap. People with interest in computer graphics, programming, and/or mathematics contact me routinely, and I am not even particularly visible. Some are just interested kids. Dunno what his interests are though. edit: if he has a hobby, he could met other smart individuals through it. He can participate in some contests—now with the internet one can do it worldwide—though contests are kind of a distraction.
Yes, finding smart individuals is the goal of this post, and it appears that he has people who aren’t his age to talk to.
However, real-life (i.e. meat) friends of a similar age (and similar intellectual ability & background) are probably the most important friends: for young people, an age gap of 2 or 3 or 4 years can mean a huge gulf in experience and physical development; so that they will always be the “baby” of the group, even if they are intellectual equals. This means that things like, for example, dating and sex don’t really work (maybe not particularly important for the kid in question right now, but it is likely to be more relevant in a few years).
Well, its not very possible to help with real life aspect of it, without being from this town. The genetic solutions are easy to propose for that disabled kid, not so much for that smart kid.
Still, consider: 1 in ~1000 kids got IQ of ~150 or better *, so if there’s several thousands kids his age in that town there got to be someone about as smart, now how to go about meeting them, well local math competition can do, or the like. The question is—what does this kid actually do? What interests him?
which is about the point where IQ tests begin to lose meaning.