Scott Kaufman & Helen Lewis I ascribe to the words of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter who famously opined that he could not define #pornogaphy, but he knew it when he saw it. To me the same is true of #GENIUS. Perhaps it cannot be readily defined but most of us recognize it when we observe it.
I would define pornography as the act of one or more persons engaged in sexual acts being visually recorded. (Sexual acts include masturbation, oral, anal or vaginal penetration) these are typically portrayed in a more serious-realistic manner and not comical or parody... These usually include acts that are done in a non-socially acceptable amount of lack of clothing (for instance a guy with his penis exposed or a woman with her tits exposed or her vagina and lower regions exposed...)
That's pretty much the entire legal definition and when you're a supreme Court Justice it is important to define specifically what something means and not just leave it up to ambiguity... Really not that good of a supreme Court Justice if you ask me.
Every time I push the plug into the outlet ,I feel grateful to GENIUS engineer Nikola Tesla who investigated devises which made it possible the safe use of AC for humans.Every time I swallow the B12 pill I feel grateful for the Nobel Prize Winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin who investigated it's structure by X-ray analysis which made it possible the wide scale production of this vitamin.Using X-ray spectrometer cost her severe pain due to arthritis and disability yet she did not stop her research of bio molecules including antibiotics and sterols. She was a devoted scientist struggling to help to improve healthcare, altruist and GENIUS.
GENIUS is not the object to observe, it is the object for gratitude for innovations which brought more safety and comfort in our everyday activity.GENIUS is praised for his deeds, not just for fun
or as a strange unusual creature. We could observe such wonders as an elephant man or a man with two heads, but could not name them GENIUS until they invent something useful/extraordinary.
I have followed your research on the topic of intelligence and personality for many years now. I listened to your recent interview with Ellen Winner. I don’t want to sound like a silly sycophant but you are one of the few who really seem to understand the complexity of genius. The role of creativity and openness to experience are key. The fact that Helen Lewis refused to reveal her IQ is indicative of a feeling of ressentiment in the sense of Scheler and Nietzsche that pervades people from the humanities whose IQs cluster around the 120 to 130 range. The highest IQs as per the GREs are math, physics, and materials science with philosophy being close. Very few humanities majors have a clue about the philosophical foundations of their area of speciality. The cultural hegemony of the STEM people is very much a form of intellectual oppression that can cause ressentiment. As a humanities type myself I have felt that oppression very strongly. Goethe turned my mind while I was a high school senior (1966) when he said science should be based on the study of relationships, not objects and properties. I see the people in academic humanities as suffering from physics envy. The Sokal affair is emblematic of this ridiculous state of affairs.
I do know one thing for sure when it comes to the limitations of IQ... IQ is simply a measurement of processing speed... If IQ was not simply a measurement of processing speed then all IQ tests would have absolutely no time limit... Because there is a time limit introduced then it is simply a measurement of processing speed because of the introduction of that time limit... It does not actually measure true intelligence.
Scott Kaufman & Helen Lewis I ascribe to the words of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter who famously opined that he could not define #pornogaphy, but he knew it when he saw it. To me the same is true of #GENIUS. Perhaps it cannot be readily defined but most of us recognize it when we observe it.
I would define pornography as the act of one or more persons engaged in sexual acts being visually recorded. (Sexual acts include masturbation, oral, anal or vaginal penetration) these are typically portrayed in a more serious-realistic manner and not comical or parody... These usually include acts that are done in a non-socially acceptable amount of lack of clothing (for instance a guy with his penis exposed or a woman with her tits exposed or her vagina and lower regions exposed...)
That's pretty much the entire legal definition and when you're a supreme Court Justice it is important to define specifically what something means and not just leave it up to ambiguity... Really not that good of a supreme Court Justice if you ask me.
Well, NOBODY is asking YOU!!!!
Every time I push the plug into the outlet ,I feel grateful to GENIUS engineer Nikola Tesla who investigated devises which made it possible the safe use of AC for humans.Every time I swallow the B12 pill I feel grateful for the Nobel Prize Winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin who investigated it's structure by X-ray analysis which made it possible the wide scale production of this vitamin.Using X-ray spectrometer cost her severe pain due to arthritis and disability yet she did not stop her research of bio molecules including antibiotics and sterols. She was a devoted scientist struggling to help to improve healthcare, altruist and GENIUS.
GENIUS is not the object to observe, it is the object for gratitude for innovations which brought more safety and comfort in our everyday activity.GENIUS is praised for his deeds, not just for fun
or as a strange unusual creature. We could observe such wonders as an elephant man or a man with two heads, but could not name them GENIUS until they invent something useful/extraordinary.
I have followed your research on the topic of intelligence and personality for many years now. I listened to your recent interview with Ellen Winner. I don’t want to sound like a silly sycophant but you are one of the few who really seem to understand the complexity of genius. The role of creativity and openness to experience are key. The fact that Helen Lewis refused to reveal her IQ is indicative of a feeling of ressentiment in the sense of Scheler and Nietzsche that pervades people from the humanities whose IQs cluster around the 120 to 130 range. The highest IQs as per the GREs are math, physics, and materials science with philosophy being close. Very few humanities majors have a clue about the philosophical foundations of their area of speciality. The cultural hegemony of the STEM people is very much a form of intellectual oppression that can cause ressentiment. As a humanities type myself I have felt that oppression very strongly. Goethe turned my mind while I was a high school senior (1966) when he said science should be based on the study of relationships, not objects and properties. I see the people in academic humanities as suffering from physics envy. The Sokal affair is emblematic of this ridiculous state of affairs.
I do know one thing for sure when it comes to the limitations of IQ... IQ is simply a measurement of processing speed... If IQ was not simply a measurement of processing speed then all IQ tests would have absolutely no time limit... Because there is a time limit introduced then it is simply a measurement of processing speed because of the introduction of that time limit... It does not actually measure true intelligence.