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Uploaded by on Mar 29, 2010

The true story behind the character of the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. Further reading:

http://www.eoht.info/page/Good+Will+Hunting+%28William+Sidis%29

10% myth:
http://www.eoht.info/page/10+percent+myth

1998 Harvard Magazine article:
http://www.assessmentpsychology.com/goodwillsidis.htm

1920 book The Animate and the Inanimate:
http://www.eoht.info/page/The+Animate+and+the+Inanimate

Harvard University and Harvard Law School transcripts:

http://www.sidis.net/transcripts.htm

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  • This contradicts your IQ 200+ Smartest Person Ever where you say Sidis was a lawyer. He skipped the fall quarter and attended <2 months of the winter quarter of his 3L.

    IIRC (saw it years ago), Hunting did not go to, much less graduate from, college, and much less Harvard. Haven't read about Sidis coming from a poor, dysfxnal family and having a foster father who severely beat him on a regular basis. That sounds a lot more like Langan than Sidis. Hunting may be a composite of both (and more?).

  • @phantominca Sidis dropped out of Harvard Law School during his last year while in good academic standing for no apparent reason and shortly there after defended himself in court, just as did Hunting. Read the full article in the drop menu for more details.

  • @HumanChemistry101 Just because someone defends *themselves* in court does not make them a lawyer. The relevant question is: Was Sidis ever admitted to a state bar? As far as I know, that's the only way one can legally become a lawyer.

    Thx for the linked article. I'll read it later. Didn't realize there was more info in the pulldown. Nite.

  • @phantominca I added a link to Sidis' Harvard Law School transcripts in the dropmenu. While you are more than welcome to describe him as you like, I can only best describe him as an "American prodigy mathematician, lawyer, physicist".

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  • this is a little hard to believe

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  • Still no groud-breaking creation/invention, another random "wizz-kid".

  • @cougarplayer20 an idiot

  • @mishkaf07 you're too smart for planet earth sir

  • @cougarplayer20 a skank

  • @HumanChemistry101 he did. loved her until he died but found sexual acts and sex itself to be completely repulsive. personally, i tihnk he's asexual.

  • I have an IQ of 45 ! =D im a genius??

  • @cougarplayer20 full of shit.

  • For him it's like he's born between a bunch of monkeys. Just imagine if everyone around you was mentally disabled that's how the world would look like from his perspective. I only know of Micheal Kearney as an example of someone with about the same level of intelligence.

  • I have an IQ of 160. What does that make me?

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