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Why are child genuis only revealed to the world once they are older? Why are their earlier extraodinary developments never really recorded eg child started talking age 4months etc?

Asked by zookeeny (888points) December 25th, 2009

Surely a 6 month old baby saying to a doctor that he has a middle ear infection would make the news or something or be recorded somewhere before the baby even reaches university at the age of 8 etc. The baby example is given on this website http://www.oddee.com/item_96629.aspx it always strikes me as interesting that there is no record of ‘proof’ of children speaking this clearly this early it is always what is said later on. If a baby is speaking this clearly surely it is a genius for that in that moment not only because they later go on to do a uni degree before most kids are even out of primary school.

It just kind of bugged me when I read that about the baby telling the doctor that because I wonder if it is true. Do you think it is possible a 6 month old could actually really say that – even a genius one?

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