"Rocket Science ain't rocket science..."

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"Rocket Science ain't rocket science..."

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...or so it seems.

What I'm after here is, not a detailed and learned exposition on how to design a space rocket (nor indeed how to perform brain surgery).

What I'm asking for is a new cliché - since "it ain't rocket science" no longer cuts the mustard. After all, everyone needs a good cliché.... :roll: ... particularly when concerned with bicycle mechanics... :?
Suggestions please?
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perhaps something to do with quantum physics, or the theory of black holes
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Ask Shania Twain what impresses her, that should sort it.
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The article says they aren't necessarily more intelligent and this is absolutely correct since their "intelligence" is based on them memorizing things.

Savants can memorize things, in fact to a far greater extent than rocket scientists or brain surgeons, but are savants intelligent? No, they often have no opinions of their own about anything and can't solve problems.

We have all been fooled into believing people that can memorize a lot are intelligent. If anything, the opposite is the case, with actual intelligent people often being forgetful or "scatterbrained".

So this raises an interesting question - why are we living in a world where it's encouraged for us to think people with good memories are clever? I know why, but I won't get into it here.
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Having a good memory is usually a consequence of exercising it frequently in a specific range.

I have a very good memory for some things, but names, faces, song names etc... all a complete blur. I am sure that's because I don't use that memory nearly as much as many other people - not being particularly gregarious.

Intelligence is usually focussed on something, which means that you end up memorising a lot of detail about that something, else you are forever looking stuff up in order to make progress, and that is decidedly slow.

With some experience of university students post my degree it was clear that many of them had been educated to be excellent sausage machine operators, but few had the capacity to decide what went into the machine. This is in a physics context, where many of the students could do the maths (a tool) very well, but couldn't work out what the appropriate maths question was (the actual physics of the question) since it had always been provided at school.

So is memory required for intelligence? No, but developing it is an inevitable consequence of applying that intelligence in a specific field.
That is not to say that that is the only way in which memory can be developed.


It has long been said that rocket science is easy - it's the engineering that is difficult.
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