Website review: The Outsiders
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•11 reviews since Feb 27, 2008
philosophy, psychology
•cpsimoes.net/artigos/outsiders.html
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MrChampion rated 3 months ago- Interesting stuff!
- Noey rated 4 months ago
- A comment that Aldous Huxley once made about Sir Isaac Newton might equally have been said of Sidis. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb [5, p. 2222].
- Innomen rated 4 months ago
From the page: "Terman's own data shows that there is a definite connection between measured intelligence
and mental and social maladjustment."
And what can we infer from this? PERHAPS SOCIETY IS STUPID!
From the page: "Similar conclusions can be drawn from these data as well. Again, there is a definite trend shown for the maladjusted to make higher scores than the satisfactorily adjusted. Again, women show symptoms of maladjustment at lower scores than men. But the most alarming thing of all is that the percentage of maladjustment shown for both sexes rose in the 12 years since the previous examination. The percentage of men showing maladjustment having risen from 21 percent to 29 percent, and the figure for women having risen from 18 percent to 33 percent! Nearly double what it was before!"
"Similar conclusions can be drawn from these data as well. Again, there is a definite trend shown for the maladjusted to make higher scores than the satisfactorily adjusted. Again, women show symptoms of maladjustment at lower scores than men. But the most alarming thing of all is that the percentage of maladjustment shown for both sexes rose in the 12 years since the previous examination. The percentage of men showing maladjustment having risen from 21 percent to 29 percent, and the figure for women having risen from 18 percent to 33 percent! Nearly double what it was before!"
That's right because as society continued its war on the non confomrist the costs of being "a little strange" rose sharply, and continue to rise ot this day.
We make fun of the 50s because everyone wore a hat and the same suit and dress, now we are far more insidious. Conformity cant be so easily faked, since what they are after is a conformity of the mind.
No longer is it enough to merely look like everyone else, you must THINK like them now as well.
Or you end up like me.
"Failure to learn how to tolerate
in a reasonable fashion the foolishness of others leads to bitterness, disillusionment,
and misanthropy"
"As a result, forms of solitary
play develop, and these, becoming fixed as habits, may explain the fact that many highly
intellectual adults are shy, ungregarious, and unmindful of human relationships, or even
misanthropic and uncomfortable in ordinary social intercourse"
"To be a leader of his contemporaries a child must be more intelligent
but not too much more intelligent than those to be led... But generally speaking, a
leadership pattern will not form--or it will break up--when a discrepancy of more than
about 30 points of IQ comes to exist between leader and led"
"The point is that
the danger lies in having an exceptional IQ in an environment completely lacking in
intellectual peers. It's the isolation that does the damage, not the IQ itself."
All in all a wonderful article.
- Pupule rated 4 months ago
- Extreme intelligence has a price. Mine won't be as high.
- harrystottle rated 4 months ago
- geniuses aint all weird...
- bluFox rated 4 months ago
- I do have some hope left after all :)
- OddToddNotGod rated 4 months ago
- According to this page I have a 31% chance to be maladjusted :(.
- danzbar rated 5 months ago
- Good piece about the social maladaptation of geniuses, an attempt to separate myth from reality, to highlight the humanness of those who are often seen as subhuman or superhuman, and to clarify which high-IQ groups are more prone to social problems and why. The problem of isolation, which tends to happen around IQ-160 and above because so few individuals reach that range, is identified as the cause for the frequent label "outsiders." Some interesting examples and food for thought can be found on the page.
- thetiger2069 rated 5 months ago
- Very interesting article about high IQ gifted kids
- billygotee rated 5 months ago
- Here's an interesting essay. Mr. Towers (the author) attempts to give some insight into the social and personal lives of the average genius. Common stereotypes of their misanthropic and sexually inept status are considered, with examples and criticism of past reports on the issue. Thanks!
