This describes our oldest child quite well, certainly eccentric though probably not genius. At close to 30 he still lives at home with us. He will complete a fulltime 4 year STEM degree next year. At five (around 2001) his school sent him to a psychologist who did a WISC IQ test (twice) on him and reported 4sigma variation in his subtests (she measured an aggregate IQ in the 120s).
My wife's liver fails through pregnancy. During her first pregnancy she was not diagnosed and he was born early with an agpar score of 6/9. The ob/gyn said he was lucky to live. During subsequent pregnancies she had experimental drug treatments and our other kids were carried closer to full term and are 20somethings comparatively 'normal' and successfully employed (in tech).
If we had started our family 5 years earlier our lives would probably have been very different.
Wow, excellent article.
I see Dutton's distinction between high IQ and genius. One can consider genius as a specialized IQ rather than a more common, broad high IQ.
I have admired Dutton for several years, but his most current theory adds an increased level of admiration..
Fascinating
This describes our oldest child quite well, certainly eccentric though probably not genius. At close to 30 he still lives at home with us. He will complete a fulltime 4 year STEM degree next year. At five (around 2001) his school sent him to a psychologist who did a WISC IQ test (twice) on him and reported 4sigma variation in his subtests (she measured an aggregate IQ in the 120s).
My wife's liver fails through pregnancy. During her first pregnancy she was not diagnosed and he was born early with an agpar score of 6/9. The ob/gyn said he was lucky to live. During subsequent pregnancies she had experimental drug treatments and our other kids were carried closer to full term and are 20somethings comparatively 'normal' and successfully employed (in tech).
If we had started our family 5 years earlier our lives would probably have been very different.