Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students?

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Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students?

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Between now and that day that each dies, a four-year-old will learn a lot more than a Harvard graduate. Does this make the four-year-old smarter?

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<font color="white"> nothing</font>

[CallMeIshmael]

Ive been told that 3rd graders are better at completing this pattern than those with PhDs:

A___EF_HI_KLM....
_BCD__G__J


Complete the alphabet with each letter appearing in either the top or bottom row


EDIT: underscores just there to aid with spacing, they have no affect on the problem

[mroels]

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Are 4 year olds smarter than Harvard graduate students?

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Between now and that day that each dies, a four-year-old will learn a lot more than a Harvard graduate. Does this make the four-year-old smarter?

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It is an excellent question but i have to say no.

No I don't think this has anything to do with being smart but rather the access to information. Obviously 4-yr-olds right will have far greater access to information that I did. But this does not garauntee them to become smarter, they merely have the potential to become smarter.

Take my 14 year old cousin for example, he doesn't know anything about anything. Ask him simple stuff like what the UN stands for, or what who the Secretary of State and he won't know. But his excuse is that he can find out within 10 minutes by looking it up on the internet.

Ofcourse this does not constitute intelligence because no thought process will go into looking up information. For example, if I were to ask him what the effects of increased interest rates will do to the economy he'll be able to tell me the answer within 10mins but he won't understand why it happens. And without understanding the process he will never be able to add on to any theories. Essentially he'll only be able to mimic information but never be able develop his own information through creative thinking

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Beggar is a girl. Harvard MBAs still might not get it.

[madnak]

<font color="white">ANOPEFQHIRKLM
SBCDTUGVWJXYZ</font>

The beggar riddle actually got me. Disturbing.

[CallMeIshmael]

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<font color="white">ANOPEFQHIRKLM
SBCDTUGVWJXYZ</font>

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I think you misunderstood the question

The alphabet is going in order, and you have to just put the following letters in either the up or the down spot.

For example, the problem could have been:

A___EF
_BCD

And the next entry is 'G' on the top row.

(again, the underscores are simply because you cant put a space in there with the 2p2 code)

[madnak]

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I think you misunderstood the question

The alphabet is going in order, and you have to just put the following letters in either the up or the down spot.

For example, the problem could have been:

A___EF
_BCD

And the next entry is 'G' on the top row.

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But the 'G' is in the bottom row in the original problem.

I think I understand what you're getting at now, but it still seems rather vague. I'm assuming that the goal is to identify the a pattern and extend that pattern? Since these riddles are tricky, you'll need to explicitly validate that.

Based on the stated criterion, "complete the alphabet with each letter appearing in either the top or bottom row," the below sequence:

<font color="white">A___EF_HI_KLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
_BCD__G__J</font>

Is a correct answer. As to a specific pattern, I'm working on it.

[madnak]

Oh dear. Tell me this isn't it:

<font color="white">A___EF_HI_KLMN_____T_VWXYZ
_BCD__G__J____OPQRS_U</font>

[dragon14]

This story sounded contrived so I did some research. Research The story is repeated with Stanford students, college seniors, kindergartners etc., throughout the web.

Also first graders are generally older than 4 years old.