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Good comments. It is interesting how an IQ score that doesn't look that high numerically speaking can be in such a high percentage of the population.

The other day I was reading some of "A Brief History of Everything" by Bryson. From the look of things, a great many of the early thinkers and scientists, meaning around Newton's time and a century or two either way, seemed autistic or certainly eccentric. This wasn't a bad things, of course, although their shyness and lack of contact did mean that many discoveries went unpublished for many decades until someone else more socialable rediscovered these things and published them. One was so reclusive and hated human contact so that he even only communicated with his household staff via written notes. Even Newton himself fit the bill. Newton was approached at one point and asked if he could compute how the planets moved in elliptical orbits rather than perfect circles. Turns out he had done so years before but lost the calculations in the piles of papers he had all over the place. So he redid them and at the same time wrote the Principia.

It also interesting to note that many were also decidedly NT. These men were mean, nasty gloryhounds who thought nothing of stealing other's ideas or crushing rivals. One, the name eludes me, who has a prominent statue on the stairs of the London Museum of Science, gained his position dishonestly, stole others research, and even when a rival was on hard times because of a near fatal accident, took advantage to take all of the man's specimens and rename them and take credit for the man's life's work. Yet this thug has a prominent statue while others are stuck in the gift shop and snack bar.

Even Hubble, for whom the telescope is named, was extremely NT. He was big, athletic and referred to as almost too handsome for his own good. He was mean, nasty and bullying. From all appearances, he "borrowed" other's materials and didn't really make an serious connections himself. He was just good at stealing other's work and taking credit.

On a personal note, I have often been able to solve puzzles more quickly than other people or figure out how to accomplish tasks. When my mother was a teacher and was changing rooms, all the teachers were, they were carrying little stacks of books back and forth between rooms. I took one of the AV carts, put the overhead projector and the other things on the floor and loaded it up with books. I then wheeled it to the other room, unloaded, reloaded it with books from that room and went back to the start room. It took me about 4 round trips and 30 minutes to finish. The teachers and their helpers were amazed at my solution since I got finished the work in such a short time while they had been at it their way for the whole morning and still had more to do. (Granted one guy tried to be slick by putting a huge bookcase full of books on a dolly and haul it upstairs. Incredibly dangerous and he did hurt his back in the process. That was one cases where I would have made a lot of little trips because of how heavy it was.)

Lots of other cases like that. A last example was when I was a kid and a neighbor, a licensed civil engineer, was sawing a piece of plywood resting atop two plastic trashcans. He was sawing along and all of a sudden it got much harder going. He couldn't figure it out, nor could the two other adults nor the other kids. I simply suggested that he was cutting into a trashcan handle. He looked at me, then under the plywood and said, "the man's right." Sure enough, he was sawing through a handle. Funny thing is, had he done about 5 more strokes with the saw blade, he'd have been through it.

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