Re: Savants & a Nobel Prize

The really interesting thing about savants is that their existence
really destroys the idea that intelligence can be measured with any
type of IQ test.

Savants have all kinds of different abilities, but there is no gurantee
that a given savant will be superior to a non-savant in some aspects.

Take for example the guy who had pi memorized to 35,000 decimals. He
recited this number without a single error to proctors. But could he
reinvent calculus ?

It also speaks to the linear type of pedagogy which many people find
irritating.

I think that almost all scientists have a touch of savant in them in
millions of different flavors. If you could put them all together you'd
have one hell of a collective brain.

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