Comments by "bruzote" (@bruzote) on "The Sad Tale of William James Sidis - The Smartest Man Who Ever Lived | Random Thursday" video.

It was sad, because they clearly messed him up. The kid deserved better, the professor who screwed him over should have gone to jail as should have several upper staff, and instead other people in society paid the ultimate price.
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@darrylschultz9311 - I think most geniuses would not be surprised if Trump's IQ was in the 115-123 range. However, by the oft-used cutoff of 140, that is NOT a genius IQ. So, if people keep arguing he has a "genius IQ", they should show it to be true or stop making such claims. Those claims are used for a logical fallacy of Appeal to Authority (appeal to a so-called genius). Sure, it's only a fallacy, but that fallacy helps to carry the day at times in politics, so those who basically lie about Trump by calling him a genius are advancing his cause through apparent deception.
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@SoltiRonai - IQ tests measure skills at solving problems that are typically not addressed in most jobs or in most personal situations. I wish IQ equated to serenity, discipline, persistent focus, and positivity. It does not. Yet, the latter are typically more important in living a "working, efficient" lifestyle.
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Actually, it's not being smarter than people that does that. It's feeling like you don't share a connection with others. Sure, that feeling might be associated with behaviors and perceptions linked to one's intelligence, but that is not the same as the intelligence itself being the driver of the "horrible" situation you describe. I wish I had understood that most of my life. I made my own unhappiness to a large extent. In the end, I suspect that if I had a therapist as a kid, I would have understood myself and the world in a much different way and been happier then and today. I can't blame my intelligence (only bordering on genius). My happiness was influenced by other circumstances, including my own unfortunate perceptions as a child of how I fit into the world and how I was (or was not) working to make my own happiness.
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@Symedge - I think enough intelligent people can observe D Trump and recognize he is not possessed of a high IQ anymore than he is a scratch golfer. His rambling speech, poor spelling, and reckless assumptions suggest his IQ is well below the genius range, regardless of his other flaws that might mask a higher IQ.
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@NatsGhost - Words have power. Try not to say that about yourself. If you don't, maybe I won't say that about myself either! ;-)
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Andro mache - Saying the CIA wanted to turn him into a killer is quite extreme to say the least. Where is the extreme evidence for that?
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Dude, maybe don't tell people their name sounds like a disease. It might not be something they are happy to hear!
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@athmaid - I don't think it's bad if the IQ is presented well within context. The kid will typically realize on their own they are ahead of others in understanding things. It's how they process that understanding that matters, and helping them do that is the best thing for them.
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Actually, I time-travelled all the time during childhood. My imagination gave me magical time-travel powers until I hit puberty. It's not just my loss, it's humanities! :-b
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