[0xdeadbeefbabe]

> other metrics associated with intellectual accomplishment.

Like say IQ. Feynman wouldn't have qualified for Mensa, and happily too[0]. Maybe that's a good metric. The metric is happy not to be in Mensa, but also has a PhD.

Edit: Feynman's IQ was 126 and Mensa wants 132, at least according to Ericsson and Pool in their book Peak.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUcmKDaklY

[1812Overture]

If Feynman's IQ was only 126 then IQ is a totally meaningless metric of intelligence.

[Gargoyle]

I've always thought Feynman did poorly on some test in high school for whatever reason and then used that score for the rest of his life as a good story. Feynman was all about the good stories.

[sgt101]

Well, intelligence is a meaningless term as in "playing chess is intelligent" or sitting on a stool and answering questions about arithmetic is intelligent. Don't even get me started on creative or consciousness.

Oddly I feel that emotion is well defined as "behavioral modifications generated by reactions to circumstances", which is what John Maynard Smith told me it was.

He was an intelligent fella.

[paulpauper]

the problem may have been the low ceiling of the test. For certain tests, getting a single question wrong may drop the IQ from 140 (possible maximum) to 135. Verbal questions can also be a challenge if you don't know obscure vocabulary words.

[petters]

But also:

    Feynman received the highest score in the country by a large margin on the notoriously difficult Putnam mathematics competition exam, although he joined the MIT team on short notice and did not prepare for the test. 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/finding-the-next-einste...