Do you believe that someone with a high IQ ( 160-180) would find the cure for Cancer?

[Yukio]

Can you believe that someone will find a cure for one or more diseases?
Imagine if this was possible! Finding the cure for most diseases ...
HIV , Cancer , Alzeimer ...

160+ could be the minimum amount of "Intelligence" for a award winner researcher ! This would mean that a person will have 4 or 5 Standard Deviations for this career.

[Doku]

My prediction: The "cure for cancer" will be found by someone with a slightly above average IQ, but not a high IQ. It's simply a matter of statistics. And the only reason that I say slightly above average is because the average intelligence of people in the research field is slightly above average (but nowhere near 4-5 SD above the norm)

My second prediction: The person who finds it will be new to the field. The reason is that most "breakthroughs" are accomplished by people who have no preconceived notions.

My third prediction (and the one most likely to be proven true): Yukio will start yet another thread on intelligence.

[Shamou]

In one word Yukio... no...

There are some members of Mensa (a group that you can only belong too if you are in the 2% higher percentile IQ) are on welfare and have never done anything worthwhile with their lives...

Sorry but the ultimate cure for cancer will not be found in our lifetime...

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[Erock]

I don't know about someone with a high IQ, but I disagree that a cure for cancer will never be found. I guess an actual "cure" might not be found, but I think a combination of research breakthroughs and technology will make the death rate of cancer patients very low over time.

Erock

[aabukar]

I think that a cure for the cancer will be found (at least i hope so)
but when that happen a new disease will be discovered and many people will die with no cure to it .. it has always been in this way unfortunately

[Yukio]

Sometimes I think , there should be a cure for most if not all diseases ... The problem is that we aren't finding them . Hypothetical talking ,If someone found the correct cure , would this person make the partition of this discovery to the rest of the humankind ?Sometimes I think , there should be a cure for most if not all diseases ... The problem is that we aren't finding them . Hypothetical talking ,If someone found the correct cure , would this person make the partition of this discovery to the rest of the humankind ?

[Sleeping Dude]

Answer is NO

[RT Wolf]

May I ask why you are so interested in intelligence and particularly IQ?

[seeker5]

Isn't Cancer highly related to lifestyle, as well as exposure to chemicals?

[Iamsuperman]

The breakthrough cure for cancer will be in it's prevention.

[infinitethoughts]

My IQ is about 24 (last I checked) and I know the cure and the cause.


And I'll prove it through a simple concept.

Compare the incidence of cancer in indigenous tribes VS. the incidence of cancer in inhabitants in 'civilized' societies.

(Seeker5. You get the prize.)

[m0vingon]

I'm not sure why we are to assume that a single individual will discover any cure for anything. That's not really how it works. Generally speaking, it takes teams of people working together to accomplish these tasks.

But that aside, I am unsure about the motivation for the question. IQ is such an old benchmark, do people actually buy into the idea that IQ is directly related to anything other than the testing system that determines it? That concept is totally outdated.

[Chinese Dragon]

I don't believe that there is a cure for cancer. And even if there was a person with an IQ of 160-180 wouldn't find it, there's just not enough people like that. I say someone with 115-140 IQ would find it if it exists.

Originally Posted by Iamsuperman

The breakthrough cure for cancer will be in it's prevention.

Yes that's probably more likely. Once you get past 70 you'll probably live to be 85 or more because you've beat all the bad diseases like cancer. If you look at this graph, death rates decrease with age:

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Just keep yourself healthy and you won't get cancer.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Chinese Dragon

I don't believe that there is a cure for cancer. And even if there was a person with an IQ of 160-180 wouldn't find it, there's just not enough people like that. I say someone with 115-140 IQ would find it if it exists.

Of course there's potentiality for a 'cure for cancer'. Even if it takes nanotechnology to do it, the groundwork for that is already underway.

Iamsuperman beat me to the punch though: prevention is better than cure. If we all stopped injecting noxious chemicals into our environment and ate natural healthy foods then cancer rates would plummet.

[maximebellemare]

you have a complex about your intelligece don't you?

Imagination is far more important than intelligence, and there is no correlation between the two.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by maximebellemare

you have a complex about your intelligece don't you?

I assume this is directed at the OP?

Actually, she(?) has a point. History has shown that in many fields a singly individual of unusually high talent is capable of far more than teams of ordinarily skilled individuals. Leonardo Da Vinci did more for the development of painting than 1,000 painters of lesser intellect and imagination put together. Einstein made leaps that 1,000 lesser mathematicians couldn't.

Originally Posted by maximebellemare

Imagination is far more important than intelligence, and there is no correlation between the two.

Unless you're using a very narrow definition of intelligence there absolutely is a correlation between the two. Intelligence isn't just Vulcan logic, it's capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.[1].

Imagination is the ability to look at things in new ways and draw new connections.

You can't be highly intelligent without imagination - you can't grasp new truths, connections and meanings without that ability to forge and shape new concepts.

Excluding Idiot Savants, you would be hard pressed to find a recognised genius in any field who wasn't both intelligent and imaginative.

[Yukio]

Originally Posted by maximebellemare

you have a complex about your intelligece don't you?

Imagination is far more important than intelligence, and there is no correlation between the two.

If you are asking about me , maybe ... Did you notice that most of the time my English skills aren't "fully" developed? This was a enervate factor into some other forums and boards .

[CStrunk]

There are many levels to "intelligence".

This led Gardner to break intelligence down into at least eight different components: logical, linguistic, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist, intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligences.

The different types vary from text to text, but you get the general idea. I don't know how credible a person's IQ is. A person has much greater depth than the one number can measure. (How much help would it be to have the cure to cancer, but not be able to successfully communicate it because you are horrible interpersonally and nobody likes you or bothers to listen to you? :P)