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    Inspiring kid

    This 12 year old is attending the University of Chicago in an M.D./P.h.D program. It's pretty incredible.

    Wonder kid.

    I love this part:

    At school, he's more of the little brother figure. His classmates tease him, for instance, about finding a girlfriend. But they also go out of their way to include him, often socializing in their homes instead of bars -- or choosing movies to watch that are rated no higher than PG.
    !!
    The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    I remember that kid. Pretty amazing.

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    • #3
      Someone post a accurate I.Q. test. Maybe my score will be around 200 like Sho's or Albert Einstein, even higher probably.

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      • #4
        Einstein didn't have anything close to a 200; very few have. Anyway, an official test must be administered by an authorized procter, usually a psychologist.

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        • #5
          He's a medical student and he wants to find a "treatment for cancer". There are already many treatments?? That's an awfully general statement for someone with incredible mental capacity. Maybe when he's 14 he'll be making more sense.

          What is not addressed is how he's able to do all this. Does he read super fast? If so how/why? What is it about his brain that's different? They should study this kid up and down and sideways.

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          • #6
            He probably has rich parents
            this post = teh win.

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            • #7
              I am curious myself of how he became so smart. He said that he loves learning, so he just began reading a lot and enjoyed learning what he read. But this,
              His mother recalls trying to master a waltz by Chopin on the piano while 3-year-old Sho played with toy trains below her. Frustrated, she went to the kitchen to take a break -- and a few moments later, hurried back in amazement as she heard Sho playing the piece.
              is pretty amazing.
              I see...

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              • #8
                OO the poor kids is only 12 years old. Just imagine the amount of pressure that is put on him. Its amazing that he is doing all of this. But in some ways I feel sorry for him. He has to do everything to please others. And, not to mention he is going to be forced to grow up so fast.

                University of Chicago in an M.D./P.h.D program WOW...I'm tring to get into the M.F.A program at 21...
                You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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                • #9
                  I think he enjoys it enough that it is not a pressure to please other he is facing. He said so himeself:
                  The response from the public -- and some of his undergraduate classmates -- has not always been positive. Recently, Sho did an Internet search of his name and was surprised to find many people commenting about his life in blogs (or Web logs).

                  "One person said, 'Look at this miserable child with a pushy mother,"' Sho says. "Another said, 'Look at this miracle of God with his supportive parents."'

                  Sho smiles at the notion that his parents have pushed him. "Sometimes, I kind of pull them along," he says.
                  The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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                  • #10
                    A normal IQ, or intelligence quotient, ranges from 85 to 115 according to the Stanford-Binet test. Only approximately 1% of all the people in the world have an IQ higher than 135. 1926, psychologist Dr. Catherine Morris Cox - who had been assisted by Dr. Lewis M. Terman, Dr. Florence L. Goodenaugh, and Dr. Kate Gordon - published a study "of the most eminent men and women" who had lived between 1450 and 1850 to estimate what their IQs might have been. The resultant IQs were based largely on the degree of brightness and intelligence each subject showed before attaining the age of 17.

                    Cox also found that different fields have quite widely varying average IQs for their acknowledged leading geniuses. She gives the following figures (the number in brackets is the number in the sample considered): Philosophers (22) average IQ 173; Scientists (39) 164; Fiction writers (53) 163; Statesmen (43) 159; Musicians (11) 153; Artists (13) 150; Soldiers (27) 133.

                    Adult IQ's of Famous Geniuses:


                    Bobby Fischer (Chess Player) 187
                    Galileo Galilei (Astronomer/Philosopher/Physicist) 185
                    Rene Descartes (Philosopher/Mathematician) 180
                    Immanuel Kant (Philosopher) 175
                    Charles Darwin (Naturalist) 165
                    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer) 165
                    Albert Einstein (Physicist) 160
                    George Eliot (Writer) 160
                    Nicolaus Copernicus (Astronomer) 160
                    Rembrandt van Rijn (Painter) 155

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