>>17324896>My IQ is 99 and I got a PhD in CompSci Doubt. People that dumb are limited to using smartphones. But you make some solid points.
>nerd equivalent of the failed high school quarterback There was a man named William James Sidis, a child prodigy who supposedly had the highest IQ ever tested, at 250-300 (yes, obviously that's highly dubious). But he was Harvard's youngest graduate at age 16, and here's some info about him:
>... there’s little doubt that he was a very smart guy. He learned languages easily and had a knack for such stunts as mentally computing the day of the week for any date in history. At age eight he attracted national notice for sailing through high school and passing the MIT entrance exam. At 11 he became the second youngest student ever to enroll at Harvard. A few months later he gave a talk at the Harvard mathematics club on “Four-Dimensional Bodies” that in the opinion of fellow prodigy Norbert Wiener would have been impressive coming from a graduate student.>Having graduated cum laude at age 16, Sidis entered Harvard Law School but dropped out before completing his degree. He took a job teaching mathematics at Rice University but was harassed by the students and quit after a short time. He flirted with leftist causes and was briefly in the news in 1919 after being arrested for his involvement in a socialist rally that turned into a riot.>After that, nothing. Estranged from his parents, Sidis worked for the rest of his life as a bookkeeper or at other jobs incommensurate with his talents. He seldom socialized, for that matter seldom bathed, and spent his off hours working on manuscripts on obscure subjects. >One of his major contributions to world literature was a book about streetcar transfers, which a biographer described as “the most boring book ever written.”source:
https://www.straightdope.com/21342513/why-did-william-sidis-the-world-s-2nd-smartest-human-achieve-so-little-in-life 