Veeky Forums incursion into the thread boys, heads up Looking at the vids of this kid, especially the one where his dad's in it too, it's really fucking obvious what happened here: First of all, the device in the OP is a total sham, as many anons have pointed out. My physics teacher did something similar to impress us in HS.
I have a theory, but let's get something straight. The kid is intelligent, probably around 145 in IQ, but no where near prodigy levels.
Guess why he was on the news in the first place: His parents called them. Guess where he got that machine from: From his dad
What happened was that the parents saw that their boy was smart and went on to tell him that he is a fucking genius, making him overconfident. The scientist character stuck on and he started to get into science early, making him know more than kids his age. But not a prodigy.
Same with these russians who train their kids to be athletes form a young age.
Adam Bell
Because 9/10 times the "child prodigy" is either a charlatan or forced into it by their parents. Both should be called out.
On a side note, what's Barnett up to these days?
Benjamin Peterson
this, i mean let's be honest once he gets into highschool, maybe a year early than other people his age, he will probably get bullied or fully ignored, once in his senior year he will discover the pleasures of alcohol and how it makes him forget about his miserable fate of being a permavirgin and just give a big fuck you to science and start going full chad once in college.
Ayden Miller
While its impressive i feel like he is embellishing the truth a little bit. All of the thing he claimed to have done in the video are quite impressive, and I believed him, until he mentioned his “free energy” device. Im not saying he didnt build it, im saying its been done before. Extracting stray radio and microwave transmissions is not hard, but its ultimately useless. Sure you might be able to power a small led with it, or charge a cell phone battery over the course of a few days, but you arent getting anything impressive. Not to mention he used the electromagnetic energy, which he had already converted into electricity, and used induction coils to extract it... again? You arent getting more energy by doing that, its an extra point of inefficient transfer of energy that is unnecessary and shows his lack of understanding of what is actually going on. He didnt invent anything, he built an inefficient hobbiest electronic device that you could have found in any number of garages years ago. He is much better than the clock kid, but is similarly overhyping himself.
Samuel Kelly
> (OP) >>There are actual real researchers with incredible talent working in real interesting fields >>Let's take an uneducated preteen boy out of nowhere and let's talk about it in the news >Breathtaking The world we live in :/
Gavin Diaz
>the kid's white see we are reinforcing problematic stereotypes here. Male privilege and white privilege are not to be joked around. The kid is talented, sure, but so is a black kid in the hood who needs the tuition and media attention more (to inspire other underprivileged groups). We can make a change user. Bully that kid into dropping out of school, it's for the greater good.
Nolan Roberts
>In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. I'd say that applies, are you sure you don't suffer from it?
Kevin Kelly
user, you have no fucking idea, none, none whatsoever. I've struggled my entire life because of my neurodiversity and still made it to university despite having no help, nothing, until I was 18. They just thought I had ADHD at first and drugged me with Ritalin throughout my adolescent years, until I was told I was misdiagnosed and was actually an autistic savant, with Asperger's syndrome. But that still didn't make up for all of the years wasted in detention or suspension for fighting. My potential was wasted not through my fault, but through the fault of adults and caregivers failing at their jobs. So yes, when I see some normie charlatan like this snake oil salesman selling faux-intelligence to the unwashed masses. Then, my friend, I despise him with pure vitriol and all of those of his ilk.
Asher Russell
>I'm a savant Uh huh what's our special skill? What have you achieved?
Aiden Sullivan
Why the fuck is Veeky Forums always so clueless about IQ? His IQ certainly isn't 145, 145 is considered entry level genius and he clearly doesn't fit that. I would place his IQ between 115-125, with an upper limit of 130. This would place him within the high average to gifted range, which would make more sense, considering 145 is within the very top percentile and most mathematics and physics majors are around 130 and this kid strikes me more as an MBA, not BSc.
