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Originally posted by James
You know. Sometimes I wonder if the definition of brainy makes things a little confusing.
In studies of gifted people, they are usually giften in everything including social situations. Gifted being in terms of native aptitude versus studying hard, working hard, or being credentialed.
In facted gifted people gneerally fail of their full potential because they get caught up in the social aspects of life.
I think that when we are thinking of brainy, we tend to think in terms of credentials, and maybe over achieving. In which case it still comes down to social skills.
If you have good social skills, it doesn't matter what other things are going on.
The proverbial audio-visual kid often has less native aptitude than a popular bright kid that lazed his way through school because he/she didn't need to study. Even though the popular bright kid may not have had as good a GPA.
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James--
I am so confused by your comments above... Maybe I'm not that brainy or gifted, I guess...
But I do know that many nerdy folks have to do those kinds of things as a survival tactic in order to be successful in their chosen fields.
I mean, I work with MD's everywhere. The you really want a hard working, brain or cardiac surgeon who studied his or her stuff--i.e. went nerdy on you--wouldn't you? I could care less about the eccentrisities of a gifted, talented scientist or doctor if my life was on the line... I really wouldn't want to hold a personable conversation with that him or her... But that's just me...
However, if I was talking to a philosopher, sociologist, or religious scholar which discussion was the name of the game... Well... Then, that's what they do...
But hard scientists and even so far as psychology are very wound up with provable, experimentation with Eigan values and T-scores.. I mean, I am always determining the significance of my data when I am testing the efficacy of my knockout/transgenic mice I make... Because of one off value I might have, could be the whole mistake made in forming drugs that cause serious side effects, like Vioxx... Folks just don't be checkin' how well their values are...
And that is Bioethics 101...