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re: How smart do you have to be to be a brain surgeon?
Posted on 12/13/15 at 7:33 pm to NC_Tigah
Posted on 12/13/15 at 7:33 pm to NC_Tigah
Um.
Not a single job on that chart doesn't have an IQ overlap with doctors, not even janitors.
So how is that chart evidence that doctors are smarter than 99.5% of the population. In any sense.
Not a single job on that chart doesn't have an IQ overlap with doctors, not even janitors.
So how is that chart evidence that doctors are smarter than 99.5% of the population. In any sense.
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Posted on 12/13/15 at 7:41 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:
at least yoru first link actually references ben carson
to get into medical school, you have to be pretty smart
to graduate from medical school and get a neurosurgical residency, you have to be elite compared to your medical school peers
so being smart compared to medical school grads means you're pretty fricking smart
Yeah
But to believe NASA lied about water on Mars because of some conspiracist agenda, thinking the earth is any less than billions of years old and that all the animals on earth rode an ark at one period of time is pretty fricking dumb
Just goes to show you that a person can be brilliant in their field and still lack common sense
Posted on 12/13/15 at 7:45 pm to Rex
quote:
Your post is silly.
What's silly is how you let your political biases influence how you view people.
Do you shite on your doctor's intelligence when you see them for a medical problem? If it's so easy a caveman can do it, why can't you answer one of the questions I posed?
Douche.
Posted on 12/13/15 at 7:51 pm to Rex
quote:
Obviously, a number of not very smart people in this thread have incorrectly equated "not very smart" with "stupid".
Are brain surgeons more intelligent on average than the general population? Quite probably. That also can be said about a number of other professions.
But can a person of not-so-extraordinary intelligence be a brain surgeon? As I posted, neurosurgeons, themselves, say yes.
God your posts are so ridiculous. Intelligence quotients for most doctors are >120. Does this mean they couldn't be lawyers or professors or researchers or some other profession? Of course not. But can someone with an IQ of < 100 make it through the rigors of medical school / residency / board certification? The cards are certainly stacked against them.
Posted on 12/13/15 at 7:54 pm to pleading the fifth
quote:but he's a liberal so its OK
What's silly is how you let your political biases influence how you view people.
the rest of us are evangelical retards or gun loving nuts
This post was edited on 12/13/15 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:26 pm to Rex
quote:must be killing you not to be able to come up with a response to me
Rex
please don't take it out on the dog
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:43 pm to OWLFAN86
Ben Carson is much smarter than you, Rex. And that's okay.
Ben Carson is a lot more successful in life than you, Rex, and that's okay as well.
And someday when you're dead and gone and everyone had forgotten that you existed, people will still recognize the different achievements that Ben Carson accomplished in his life; While no one will recognize your message board crusade to prove that he's not intelligent. And that's okay.
Ben Carson is a lot more successful in life than you, Rex, and that's okay as well.
And someday when you're dead and gone and everyone had forgotten that you existed, people will still recognize the different achievements that Ben Carson accomplished in his life; While no one will recognize your message board crusade to prove that he's not intelligent. And that's okay.
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:45 pm to DanMullins4Life
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Ben Carson is much smarter than you, Rex.
Obviously not.
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:48 pm to OWLFAN86
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must be killing you not to be able to come up with a response to me
Gee, I'm so "idiotic" I've got people begging for my attention.
What was your question? You're inconsequential so easy to miss.
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:50 pm to DanMullins4Life
quote:
Ben Carson is much smarter than you, Rex. And that's okay.
Ben Carson is a lot more successful in life than you, Rex, and that's okay as well.
And someday when you're dead and gone and everyone had forgotten that you existed, people will still recognize the different achievements that Ben Carson accomplished in his life; While no one will recognize your message board crusade to prove that he's not intelligent. And that's okay.
Ben Carson is so smart he believes in intelligent design.
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:51 pm to Pectus
edited: I deleted my observation here about Ben Carson because this thread was not about him except in a coincidental way.
This post was edited on 12/13/15 at 8:53 pm
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:57 pm to Rex
Did you really give it to him?
Posted on 12/13/15 at 8:58 pm to Pectus
Had something to do with the Great Pyramid.
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:07 pm to Rex
quote:unpossible
You're inconsequential
this board is obsessed with me
This post was edited on 12/13/15 at 9:12 pm
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:09 pm to Volvagia
quote:I just assumed NC_Tigah was providing that chart as a evidence to counter the conjecture, rather than arguing one way or the other per se.
Not a single job on that chart doesn't have an IQ overlap with doctors, not even janitors.
So how is that chart evidence that doctors are smarter than 99.5% of the population. In any sense.
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:11 pm to Rex
quote:
How smart do you have to be to be a brain surgeon?
I'd venture to say you have no shot
Posted on 12/13/15 at 9:52 pm to Rex
I guess it depends on how you define/measure intelligence. But I'd say this guy is pretty damn smart.
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Education
Fellow - Vascular/Endovascular Neurosurgery Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Resident - Neurological Surgery Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport
MD - Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
BS - Electrical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Sciences (Magna Cum Laude Louisiana State University
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