Ask HN: Define Genius

From the wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iq, the "positive correlations" section you can expect IQ to be useful predicting the following:

• SAT score.

• Job performance of a new hire when the new hire does not have existing experience.

• Income, but being at the extreme high end doesn't help much more than just being high.

• Health. (Some diseases are negatively correlated.)

• Committing violent crimes. (negative correlation.)

Genius is not in the list. I would suggest that it is something else entirely.

Nope.

I have a very high IQ and wouldnt consider myself a genius!

Genius, IMO is about seeing things differently and sheer devotion to a cause. Einstein and Darwin would be examples of that. IQ tests do check for that (well not the devotion, but the thinking outside the box) but I dont think they represent it well.