That guy’s name?
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drolex@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
His mother wasn’t creative
Penguin_1024@piefed.zip 1 hour ago
He was born in 1898. The idea of digitizing information didn’t really exist, much less the jpeg standard. I’say his mother was very creative.
AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
entheo_a1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Ah so he didn’t just decide he didn’t like public attention, he went to a socialist rally and went to prison for sedition as a result, THEN realised maybe he was better off out of the public eye, where his politics was less likely to kill him…
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Also I’d bet going through college at such a young age wasn’t exactly conducive to decent mental health.
Dude was probably burned the fuck out at a very young age.
mech@feddit.org 2 hours ago
No reliable record exists of Sidis ever taking a standardized IQ test. The frequently cited claim that he scored between 250–300 on an IQ test stems from a single, uncorroborated account by psychologist Abraham Sperling in his 1946 (2 years after Sidis’ death) book Psychology for the Millions.
The concept of IQ as measured by modern tests did not exist during Sidis’s childhood
lime@feddit.nu 1 hour ago
i mean, iq is a normal distribution. it caps at 200. 160 represents the 99.996th percentile, and above that the error bars are so large that the result is uneless.
mech@feddit.org 1 hour ago
It’s not capped, really. But the claimed 250 IQ would be 10 standard deviations from the mean, so he’d be the most intelligent person in a population of ~10^24 people.
~10^11 humans have ever lived on earth.taiyang@lemmy.world 39 minutes ago
I was going to mention the same thing. Even the “smartest man alive” would be in those useless upper bounds.
To explain that upper bounds issue to others, imagine being the top score on a leaderboard. Some of that’s going to be random chance and other factors, even if most of the time you score in the top 1% of scores consistently.
Telemachus93@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
Strictly speaking, a normal distribution doesn’t cap, neither at 0 nor at 200. Maybe the scores achievable by standardized tests do, of course.
IratePirate@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Yuppp, this smelled like bullshit form miles away. Thanks for corroborating!
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Show me a guy who just jacks off at home all day and I’ll show you a guy who’s not causing any trouble.
bampop@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Depends on whose home it is
Kolanaki@pawb.social 54 minutes ago
Yo.
IDew@lemmy.zip 45 minutes ago
He understood that money and fame don’t really make you happy
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
“Ambition” is often just a “bell curve meme” situation, lol.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
He was a socialist and was arrested during a May day protest. He was tried and convicted of sedition. The media attention and the fact that America was in the middle of the Red Scare made sure that he didn’t get a fair trial. His parents made a deal to have him serve the sentence suspended and also be confined to a sanatorium for a year. This really changed his world view and he became very distrustful of media attention and central authority. Before these events he wasn’t really bothered by the attention and he liked having public intellectual discourse.