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@kevins6732 Well yeah, absolutely, but the problem is that people hear "intelligence quotient
" and think it applies to general intelligence, which it is not. Pattern matching and finding, concentration, tricky questions, etc, etc, but NOT general intelligence.
One can have an IQ of 250 and still not even begin to grasp let's say hardware micro-architecture or programming, or physics...
Not because one is more or less intelligent or smart, but because you just have to study for those things.
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@kevins6732
Well, electrical engineering is a very broad term. It encompasses digital computers, electronics, power engineering, telecommunications and networking, radio systems, microelectronics, control systems, and a couple more subfields.
And most of them are relatively simple.
I myself studied hardware micro-architecture and design, primarily for microprocessors when I was in school(Not from school or the education system, just by myself from books and from my dad), which is part of electrical engineering and is probably one of the most complicated subfields of electrical engineering, but I wouldn't say that you have to be "smart" to learn it, it's just a lot of information and patterns and logic, but everyone who WANTs to can learn it.
On the other hand telecommunications and networking is relatively simple with a lot less information you need to know as they are on a higher abstraction and especially radio systems.
But again everybody can learn them. The problem with people that say that they can't is that they expect instant gratification, they expect to get everything from the get-go.
People also expect that they can learn it and master it within a couple hundred hours or a thousand hours, which is not the case.
You start studying something in a new field you've never had anything to do with before and you are basically lost, in the beginning, you are absorbing a lot of information, still figuring it out, then when you've read and mastered 2-3x books, it starts to become clearer, and then you read and master a dozen more, revisiting many when needed and practicing them too.
Of course, there are many learn quickly and effectively techniques, but they take the fun out of learning.
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