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Old 04-28-2016, 03:37 PM  
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Originally Posted by Relentless View Post
Go find an 'average man' and then we can do a comparison. Until then 'average' will remain a largely irrelevant term. To be a genius you have to be a genius compared to any man... not the fictitious average man.
How would you be genius compared to Einstein? That compared to implies you are way higher than the person you compare it to.
I get what you are saying, but in that case all the "compared to whom" sentence should be dropped.
Genius is certain IQ, not in comparison to anyone, just certain IQ level.

It was the other poster who started that "compared to what" talk, I merely played along.

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Not because they were better than 'average' whatever that means...
Nobody said that better than average means genius
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