If I take this literally, it should be relatively simple to generate hundreds of Einsteins or hundreds of John von Neumanns. I mean, taking hundred random healthy kids and giving them best education, that should be easily within powers of any greater country.
Actually, any billionaire could easily do it, and there could even be a financial incentive for him to do: offer these new Einsteins to work for you when they finish their studies. (They would probably be happy to work along the other Einsteins.)
Polgár was an awesome parent, but I believe he seriously underestimated (in fact, completely dismissed) the effect of IQ. He should have checked his genetic privilege. On the other hand, seems like the “hundred Einsteins” experiment could still work if you’d start with kids over e.g. IQ 130 (or kids of parents with high IQ, so you can start the interventions soon without worrying about measuring IQ at very young age). Two percents of population, that’s still a lot, in absolute numbers.
Unfortunately, I am not a billionaire, so my enthusiasm about this project is irrelevant.
If I take this literally, it should be relatively simple to generate hundreds of Einsteins or hundreds of John von Neumanns. I mean, taking hundred random healthy kids and giving them best education, that should be easily within powers of any greater country.
Actually, any billionaire could easily do it, and there could even be a financial incentive for him to do: offer these new Einsteins to work for you when they finish their studies. (They would probably be happy to work along the other Einsteins.)
This was tested in the chess field. A family decided to teach their kids chess from early childhood and created three grandmasters (Plogar sisters) https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/articles/200507/the-grandmaster-experiment (But not one Kasparov, so some variability of personal capabilities obviously exists.)
Polgár was an awesome parent, but I believe he seriously underestimated (in fact, completely dismissed) the effect of IQ. He should have checked his genetic privilege. On the other hand, seems like the “hundred Einsteins” experiment could still work if you’d start with kids over e.g. IQ 130 (or kids of parents with high IQ, so you can start the interventions soon without worrying about measuring IQ at very young age). Two percents of population, that’s still a lot, in absolute numbers.
Unfortunately, I am not a billionaire, so my enthusiasm about this project is irrelevant.
Yes, they had Hungarian-Jewish ancestry which is known to produce many genius minds called the Martians.