Sunday, February 16, 2014

Blog #7 What makes a "genius"?





"The case of Jack Andraka and Lauren Marbe"




Jack Andraka is a young inventor, scientist and cancer researcher who developed a cheap and effective method to detect the increase of a protein that indicates the presence of pancreatic cancer. He won the grand prize Intel International Science and Engineering fair. He is only 17 years old and has an above average IQ.






While Lauren Marbe on the other hand who is also a teenager who scored a 161 IQ level in the mensa test which higher than Albert Einstein's and yet She's a fan of fake tanning,blonde highlights and She is also a singer in short She's much more of a showgirl than a genius.




So what makes a true genius? In my own opinion a genius is much more a curious person who wants to discover things or formulate new ideas. A genius has a sense of passion like Albert Einstein who never stop working on his research in which He makes a lot of sacrifices especially time wise. A genius is also imaginative or thinks outside of the box like Jack Andraka who discovered the method do detect pancreatic cancer, despite the fact He is too young to be scientist, many PhD's denied or didn't give any attention to his proposals and yet He never gave up on his work. What's the use of having a high IQ level if you're not gonna make a good use of it?