When it comes to the definition of “genius,” everything is relative, right? When a particularly bright young person performs an amazing feat of intellect or scores incredibly well on a standardized test like an IQ exam or the SAT, we often herald them with excessive praise, calling them “the next Einstein” or even “smarter than Einstein,” as though scoring well on a test were justification for such treatment.
Image credit: Screenshot from Latinoshealth.com.
Yet not only did Einstein never take an IQ test, he loathed standardized testing, having very public feuds with Thomas Edison and Carl Brigham (the inventor of the SATs) over the biases and lack of accuracy inherent in assuming that measuring performance on one such test was a good measure of aptitude of any sort.
Einstein with Paul Robeson (far right) and others, courtesy of TechTimes.com.
Go read the whole, fascinating story — courtesy of contributor Paul Halpern — over on Medium!
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When it comes to the definition of “genius,” everything is relative, right? When a particularly bright young person performs an amazing feat of intellect or scores incredibly well on a standardized test like an IQ exam or the SAT, we often herald them with excessive praise, calling them “the next Einstein” or even “smarter than Einstein,” as though scoring well on a test were justification for such treatment.
Image credit: Screenshot from Latinoshealth.com.
Yet not only did Einstein never take an IQ test, he loathed standardized testing, having very public feuds with Thomas Edison and Carl Brigham (the inventor of the SATs) over the biases and lack of accuracy inherent in assuming that measuring performance on one such test was a good measure of aptitude of any sort.
Einstein with Paul Robeson (far right) and others, courtesy of TechTimes.com.
Go read the whole, fascinating story — courtesy of contributor Paul Halpern — over on Medium!
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1gHCt3K
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