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Idiot savants are a group of humans that are incapable of learning, ... All types of savants have occurred throughout human history. The most common is the calendar, mathematical and music savants, but there are other savants unique to our modern area. In short, savants can be found in a wide range of areas.
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www.plim.org/2idiots.html
www.plim.org/2idiots.html
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THE HISTORY OF AUTISM - POSSIBLE EARLY FINDINGS? ... In the 18th and 19th Century the so-called "Idiot Savants", who we now know were Autistic, ...
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www.angelfire.com/amiga/aut/authist.html
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idiot savant n. pl. idiot savants; An intellectually disabled person who exhibits extraordinary ability in a highly specialized area, such as mathematics or music. [French : idiot, idiot + savant, learned.] ... History of idiot sa...
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/idiot+savant
dictionary.reference.com/browse/idiot+savant
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idiot savant (sā-vänt'); n. pl. idiot savants; A mentally retarded person who exhibits genius in a highly specialized area, such as mathematics ... History of idiot sa... ... idiots savants...
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/idiot-savant
dictionary.reference.com/browse/idiot-savant
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The current vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne argues that universities need to reclaim their role as instillers of values as well as being imparters of knowledge if they are not to risk producing some of the great idiots savants of history: sophisticated barbarians who possess terrifying knowledge and...
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www.faqs.org/abstracts/Education/Will-our-legacy-be-gre...
www.faqs.org/abstracts/Education/Will-our-legacy-be-great-idiots-savants-of-history-New-code-to-crack-down-on-research-misconduct.html
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Idiot Savant are a history-rock sextet from Middlesbrough. But seriously, wait... As opening gambits go it's not the best, but despite this Idiot Savant have gained a loyal following over the last few years, garnering 6music and Xfm play and lots of nice, if slightly strange, press (see below).
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www.myspace.com/idiotsavantbanduk
www.myspace.com/idiotsavantbanduk
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The criteria to consider "candidate intelligences" (Gardner, 1999a, p. 36) are: 1) the potential for brain isolation by brain damage, 2) its place in evolutionary history, 3) the presence of core operations, 4) susceptibility to encoding, 5) a distinct developmental progression, 6) the existence of idiot-savants,
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www.indiana.edu/~intell/mitheory.shtml
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"In addition to evidence concerning the organized nature of the specific memories of idiot-savants for dates and music, we have also accumulated evidence that the eliciting of rules and the development of rule-based strategies tended to be specific in the particular areas of ability of these subjects.
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www.science-frontiers.com/sf066/sf066p15.htm
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Why do so many idiot savants have the obscure skill of calendar calculating? Why does the triad of retardation, blindness, and musical genius appear with such regularity among them? Why is there a 6:1 male-to-female ratio in this disorder?
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www.science-frontiers.com/sf058/sf058p16.htm
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