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Question: What if James William Sidis (smartest man evere) and Marilyn vos Savant (smartest woman ever) had a kid!?
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Considering she married Dr!. Jarvis, who invented the Jarvis Artificial Heart, I think she married a genius anyway!. So tell me about their son!. Is he what you would expect from two geniuses!?

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IQ tests with results above 180 are highly questionable in their accuracy!. I wouldn't trust the results of 228!.

According to studies of children of people with high IQs, the results are that they tend to be less than the average of the parent's IQs!. That is they tend towards the average IQ!.

No doubt there are genes that tend to improve the IQs of children!. But the IQs of children with unreliable test results would probably less than their parents, who probably just lucked out on their tests!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The kid might be smart, might not!. High levels of intelligence aren't as closely correlated with heredity as lower levels!. High levels of IQ are more closely correlated to education than heredity!. So, if his parents taught him well, and sent him to a good school, then perhaps he would have a high IQ!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Actually, Marilyn vos Savant is married to Dr!. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart!. I would imagine their kids are very smart!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I've never heard of Sidis, but if vos Savant is so smart, why has she never made any lasting contribution to human knowledge (as distinguished from posturing in a very low-level magazine!?)Www@QuestionHome@Com

The possibilities are endless, but they probably wouldn't get much sleep for the first three months, unless they had a nanny!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Actually, the smartest person alive right now is Stephen Hawking, with a freakishly high I!.Q!. standing at 280!. also I heard that Yogis in India, and Daoist mystics in China are so intelligent, their I!.Q!.'s can't be measured at all!. For example Brahmin DISCIPLES in India, not even Yogis, generally average at around 137!. Average!. These are not even the masters, the teachers!.

More than likely nothing!. It would just be a normal kid, depending on upbringing!.

If they held on to their kind they would likely bombard him or her with brain games, puzzles, and probably not allow them to watch T!.V!. and video games probably would be allowed, but it would be stuff such as chess master, role playing games, basically anything that challeges the brain!. Likely the kid would turn out as intelligent as either the mother or the father in that instance, and if raised "normally" by other people probably stand at around 120 to 140 or so but never reach freakishly high levels like his or her parents!.

Yes, its true, some people are born smarter, however, the human brain is capable of amazing feats of computing and problem solving, and if a person's mind is bombarded from an early age with puzzles, brain games and the like, a person wtih average brain cell structure will reach an I!.Q!. of 170!.

In humanity's future, we may be talking about the elimination of mental retardation, with average I!.Q!.'s standing at 170, and people born smart standing in the 500's!. That is when, likely, interstellar travel will become possible!.

No one has really speculated on the fact, but, since in Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek universe the kids take calculus in the 3rd grade, apparently 24th century humans have I!.Q!.'s in the neighborhood of the 900's or higher!. also, in "Star Trek Voyager," I was tickled by a line stated by the character Harry Kim in one of the episodes!.

I believe he said (paraphrasing)

"Yeah, in the 20th century, people needed monitors and operating systems to tell them what a computer's functions were, because they were not intelligent enough to crunch all the numerical data in their head!.!.!.!.!.!."

In the future humans will be so math proficient, monitors will not even exist anymore! It will just be the computer, the person inputing it without a monitor, and a screen used largely for observations, but not actual calculation!.

Likely, under his parent's care, I think the kid would stand in the 220's like his or her parents, like I said, and under a new teaching system probably reach the 500's or higher!.

The one danger with being that intelligent, is that you also need an ethical system!. Some of the worst abuses in history, have been perpetrated by men (and a minority of women), who were smarter than everyone else, Adolf Hitler not being the least of them, whose I!.Q!. was never calculated but obviously enough he wasn't exactly a dull knife in the drawer if you get my meaning!.

What people find fascinating, and frightening about Hitler, is not what he did, but the fact that he was smart!.

The idea, of someone that intelligent, being so evil, scares the hell out of people!.

It may even be possible, that Hitler may have been on the same level as Sidisor vos Savant!. His eccentricity for one, how seemed to need no notebooks for his speeches how he seemed to recite speeches lasting hours, entirely from memory!.!.!.!.!. all these things betray freakishly high intelligence!.

Ultimately though, its just speculation; any info on Hitler's relatives believe it or not is classified information!. Believe it or not, Hitler's family here in the U!.S!., is under the protection of the federal government!. Their identities really are a national secret, and a CIA killer will hunt you down if you try to find them!.

Because of all the hatred and animosity towards their infamous relative, their lives were recognized as being in danger so FDR himself instituted their protection!. No one really knows though, their level of educational attainment, or how intelligent they are, so we will likely never find out if Hitler was indeed a genius, or just a psychopath so passionate about his cause from his syphylis infection that that psychotic passion was hypnotic!.

oh well as they say sel a vi!.Www@QuestionHome@Com