[DrCiao]

	Originally Posted by AlfredSchnittke To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Perhaps a little, but I still prefer someone who spends all of their time in caves writing out new calculus methods to your average human being. Call it a preference.

I admire tenacity and dedication in people, but with talent, so much of it is about human interaction. What about autistic people or idiot savants?

[AlfredSchnittke]

	Originally Posted by DrCiao To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I admire tenacity and dedication in people, but with talent, so much of it is about human interaction. What about autistic people or idiot savants?

I don't understand your question.

I like idiot savants. I relate with them better than with other human beings.

The fact that almost everything that = success is just a mass of "human interaction" sucks horribly, mostly because of how awful most human interaction is. I admire those few that are brilliant enough to abstain from it. They are like Gods.

[Harmony]

From what I've seen here on campus (work at a college)... A lot of the male students think their work experience should be enough to render them capable of doing what they want... The females seem more concerned with learning all the aspects of their field. Of course this is just a summary of comments and conversations I've overheard over the years.

Honestly, if you are an entrepreneur, depending on what you are selling/providing to someone you don't need a degree per say. I think some men have enough confidence that they are comfortable proceeding without a degree....while some women may not feel confident enough in their abilities without a little more knowledge in their field. Again, this is what I have gathered from conversations I've overheard around campus.

[Latro]

Originally Posted by AlfredSchnittke To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

You are completely failing to take into account relativity of measure/quantity. Is 3*10^-5 an objectively small number?... No. The word obscene was used. Obviously in some metaphorical sense. Let us recall how the Oxford English dictionary defines obscene: "offending against moral principles; repugnant". The number in question should be so small as to be offensive that it exists at all. Relatively speaking a 1/35,000 chance doesn't strike me as disgustingly small, heck, it's a better odds than winning the lottery. The 189 level suffices. While you might at least have a chance of meeting someone with a 160 IQ in your lifetime in your scenario, you have virtually no hope of meeting someone with a 189+. As you've said yourself, at that level the whole measure actually "crashes" the system in some sense, indeed it "offends" the whole measurement of IQ because it is so high. That looks precisely like something obscene to me. Therefore it is only that level of IQ that I should think of when someone says someone has an "obscenely high IQ".

The idiomatic usage of "obscene" like that is rather loose, in that usually when it is used there is no "offense" implied anywhere. So we're pretty much disputing the semantics of a vague idiom here. Your usage has some merit, though.

[AlfredSchnittke]

	Originally Posted by Latro To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	The idiomatic usage of "obscene" like that is rather loose, in that usually when it is used there is no "offense" implied anywhere. So we're pretty much disputing the semantics of a vague idiom here. Your usage has some merit, though.

Well, it appears that I should have written that post about "precise language"; such vagueness is highly confusing to me.

I suppose I was unaware of this vague usage of obscene as idiom though. It simply seemed like a metaphorical usage to me.

The vague idiom rather seems to rob the word of any particularly unique character then. How tragic.

[Latro]

	Originally Posted by AlfredSchnittke To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Well, it appears that I should have written that post about "precise language"; such vagueness is highly confusing to me. I suppose I was unaware of this vague usage of obscene as idiom though. It simply seemed like a metaphorical usage to me. The vague idiom rather seems to rob the word of any particularly unique character then. How tragic.

Indeed; as I said your usage has merit despite being unconventional. But you'll butt heads with others if you insist on it.

[AlfredSchnittke]

	Originally Posted by Latro To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Indeed; as I said your usage has merit despite being unconventional. But you'll butt heads with others if you insist on it.

'Tis the price of precision.

[lonelytraveller]

Women generally does well in their academics comparing mens. But one reason that I find why mens are preferred for entrepreneurship roles are women will undergo a lot of transitions in their body till 40 or 50. Mens, on the other hands will not undergo any such physical change and they could easily concentrate on their career. Just my 2 cents.

[AlfredSchnittke]

	Originally Posted by lonelytraveller To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Women generally does well in their academics comparing mens. But one reason that I find why mens are preferred for entrepreneurship roles are women will undergo a lot of transitions in their body till 40 or 50. Mens, on the other hands will not undergo any such physical change and they could easily concentrate on their career. Just my 2 cents.

How would that affect one's ability to run a business?...