Ah, my brain hurts...
Okay, so my final paper for psychology is a research paper and i am doing mine on gifted development and education...and i;ve been doing mad crazy researching for it....i need people's thoughts...
How should giftedness be measured? Should it be based on IQ and a person's capability to learn? or should it instead not necessarily be based on IQ, but how successful a person is later in life? Like is a person who has an insanely high iq but does nothing with their life considered more gifted than an average person who is successful? HOw do you measure success?
How do you define giftedness? I find myself thinking society is mildly fucked up because we put so much emphasis on intellectual giftedness...but where the hell would we be without all the people in vocational fields...are they not equally gifted...just at something different. Why do we hold intellect so highly? My friend and i were talking tonight and we realized that back in the 1800's they determined intelligence by the size of one's brain and we now know that is completely absurd, so what is to say that how we determine intelligence today won't be completely contradicted in the years to come...?
Also,...my friend is writing her final philosiphy paper and its wicked fucked up b/c the whole scenario is that this that two women die and one;s body is fine and the other's mind is fine so they do a transplant and the mind of julia is preserved in the body of this girl mary. but it is basically julia just in a different persons body. and then julia commits a murder and they dont' know whether to charge julia or mary...but then to complicate the fuck out of things the transplant didn't go well and so julia/mary is about to die and so they split her brain in half and make a new person in a new body with the same memories and experiences and so there are two julias now...which one do u charge with the murder???? ahh! its wicked frustrating b/c everytime we state an opinion there are all of these contradictions to it..
so much thinking...i'm not supposed to have to think during the summer...i guess thats what harvard is for...
How should giftedness be measured? Should it be based on IQ and a person's capability to learn? or should it instead not necessarily be based on IQ, but how successful a person is later in life? Like is a person who has an insanely high iq but does nothing with their life considered more gifted than an average person who is successful? HOw do you measure success?
How do you define giftedness? I find myself thinking society is mildly fucked up because we put so much emphasis on intellectual giftedness...but where the hell would we be without all the people in vocational fields...are they not equally gifted...just at something different. Why do we hold intellect so highly? My friend and i were talking tonight and we realized that back in the 1800's they determined intelligence by the size of one's brain and we now know that is completely absurd, so what is to say that how we determine intelligence today won't be completely contradicted in the years to come...?
Also,...my friend is writing her final philosiphy paper and its wicked fucked up b/c the whole scenario is that this that two women die and one;s body is fine and the other's mind is fine so they do a transplant and the mind of julia is preserved in the body of this girl mary. but it is basically julia just in a different persons body. and then julia commits a murder and they dont' know whether to charge julia or mary...but then to complicate the fuck out of things the transplant didn't go well and so julia/mary is about to die and so they split her brain in half and make a new person in a new body with the same memories and experiences and so there are two julias now...which one do u charge with the murder???? ahh! its wicked frustrating b/c everytime we state an opinion there are all of these contradictions to it..
so much thinking...i'm not supposed to have to think during the summer...i guess thats what harvard is for...