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    • RZ923
      RZ923 M0★ M2★ M3 M4 M5 last edited by RZ923

      I have a writing assignment to write about a famous person and I choose Prof Loh 🙂
      Can the moderators/admins please provide some info about Prof Loh like his major life events and major achievements? (And the year/month he did/encountered it)
      Thanks 🙂
      PS I need to complete the biography in 4 days.

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      • divinedolphin
        divinedolphin M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4★ M5★ M6 last edited by

        Hmmmm..... How come Prof. Loh is so famous (at least among us), but his Wikipedia page is so short?

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        • debbie
          debbie ADMIN M0★ M1 M5 @divinedolphin last edited by debbie

          @divinedolphin I'm guessing that the language barrier might have something to do with it 🙂 A lot of the media coverage about Prof. Loh isn't in English.

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          • The Blade Dancer
            The Blade Dancer M0★ M1★ M2★ M3 M4 M5 last edited by

            Oh yea right

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            • CoherentMango
              CoherentMango M2 M3 M4 M5 @RZ923 last edited by CoherentMango

              @RZ923 It's the summer break so this isn't for school, right? Anyways, like Debbie said, lot's of info about Prof. Loh isn't in English but you should still be able to find some stuff if you search him up.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po-Shen_Loh#:~:text=Po-Shen Loh (born June 18%2C 1982) is an,2018%2C and 2019 —their first victories since 1994.

              Wikipedia has a paragraph about him 🙂

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              • CoherentMango
                CoherentMango M2 M3 M4 M5 @divinedolphin last edited by

                @divinedolphin He's pretty well known, but still, most people probably don't know him. It's just that he seems famous in this forum because this forum is made by him.

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                • RZ923
                  RZ923 M0★ M2★ M3 M4 M5 @CoherentMango last edited by

                  @CoherentMango Thanks for the info! 🙂
                  Sorry I couldn’t use it because I had completed the bio. 😞

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                  • CoherentMango
                    CoherentMango M2 M3 M4 M5 @RZ923 last edited by

                    @RZ923 It's fine, the paragraph on Wikipedia doesn't say much anyways.

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                    • divinedolphin
                      divinedolphin M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4★ M5★ M6 last edited by

                      Funny thing is, a lot of people don't know who even Terence Tao is. Even my math teacher hasn't heard about him!

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                      • Potato2017
                        Potato2017 M5★ @divinedolphin last edited by

                        @divinedolphin Wow lol

                        He's basically one of the smartest people living right now

                        Maybe even the smartest

                        But then again, many different people are really good at different things

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                        • RZ923
                          RZ923 M0★ M2★ M3 M4 M5 @Potato2017 last edited by

                          @Potato2017 I think Terence Tao’s IQ is literally higher than Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein... wow 😯
                          PS Terence Tao is my second option

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                          • CoherentMango
                            CoherentMango M2 M3 M4 M5 @RZ923 last edited by CoherentMango

                            @Potato2017 @RZ923
                            Iq tests aren't really accurate and can be easily studied for.

                            Many people who are also very smart have been passed because they didn't do iq tests(even if they did I doubt it would be that high if you don't study and you are still getting introduced to the format and type of questions). The chance of him being the smartest person out of 7 billion ppl is extremely low.
                            Also, we don't know much about how smart Issac Newton and Albert Einstein really is. They lived in a completely different timeline than us and the only proof about them is from books and documents and other old stuff.

                            He's smart nevertheless, but this kid is definitely the smartest person overall.
                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9OpDccsBg

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                            • divinedolphin
                              divinedolphin M0★ M1★ M2★ M3★ M4★ M5★ M6 last edited by

                              Terence Tao is really really smart, like probably smarter than Prof. Loh, but Prof. Loh is probably the nicest IMO coach ever.

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                              • The Blade Dancer
                                The Blade Dancer M0★ M1★ M2★ M3 M4 M5 last edited by

                                It's been found that as time went on through the years the average IQ scored on tests were incredibly higher it's a matter of the test and often not the person

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                                • CoherentMango
                                  CoherentMango M2 M3 M4 M5 @The Blade Dancer last edited by CoherentMango

                                  @The-Rogue-Blade Yes, each iq test is incredibly different and the scores vary a lot. Still, people could practice for the tests to get even higher scores.

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                                  • Potato2017
                                    Potato2017 M5★ last edited by

                                    I personally don't think that IQ tests really mean anything. They're just a number given to you based on how you did on a test, so basically just a test score.

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                                    • sqwishy
                                      sqwishy M2 M3 M4 @Potato2017 last edited by

                                      @Potato2017 @CoherentMango @The-Rogue-Blade Yes, but nowadays people don't really view it as a standard test, they think of it and refer to it more as a "joke" about how to measure how smart someone is. I don't believe that most people take it seriously and, instead, often make cracks like, "[name] is so smart, I bet his/her IQ is even higher than the professor's!", or something like that. We know that Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein were definitely very perceptive and clever, so we associate "smart" and having a "high IQ" to them. Of course, like you have said, IQ tests aren't very accurate and don't determine how smart you are or what you are capable of learning.

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                                      • RZ923
                                        RZ923 M0★ M2★ M3 M4 M5 last edited by

                                        I discovered there was a video made by Ted-Ed that probably will give more info on IQ tests 🙂

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                                        • RZ923
                                          RZ923 M0★ M2★ M3 M4 M5 last edited by

                                          I agree with what everyone said about the IQ tests, how it is unreliable and the score varies a lot, and the score also depends on the state or condition of a person, ie a sleeping smart person may do worse in an IQ test than a vigorous average person, and a intelligent but frail old professor may do worse than a healthy young man.

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                                          • The Blade Dancer
                                            The Blade Dancer M0★ M1★ M2★ M3 M4 M5 @RZ923 last edited by

                                            @RZ923 That's the video I referenced when I talked about consistently increasing IQ scores!

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