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Originally Posted by Augi
I can become an expert just by doing the reading? Is that part of my original genetic makeup? For this test you would have to run a follow up test to look at the anomalies; and marvel at those that boldly went beyond their skills into places the test concluded they would not.
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I'm not sure what you are asking here. Some people would not be able to become an expert by reading on a subject, others can, and part of that is their genetic makeup.
Most testing puts my mathematical skills as 'average' for someone of my education level. I can agree with this, for math is one of my weaknesses. That being said I worked my ass off and was able to get out of some very unpleasant math classes in college by testing out of them, while my more mathematically gifted peers were stuck doing calc 120 at 8am, 5 days a week. Still I doubt that I would ever been known as a great mathematician no matter how much effort I put into it. Its always 'work' for me.
On the other hand one of my strengths is being able to comprehend a new subject or idea very quickly, this too I believe is innate, as I had no additional training that others in my peer group have had. This means I need to spend less effort to understand new material, making learning new concepts easier.
So really yes you can make up for your deficiencies with effort, but how far is debatable. I think its safe to say that most geniuses are born not made.