Linda Chiu 12 / 11 / 12
Battle of the Intellectual
You’ re strolling through the zoo, and pause in front of the chimpanzee section. The most adorable little chimp peeks at you through the glass. You immediately fall head over heels in love with this cute chimp, and decide to name him Snufflebuns, because he’ s just that cute. Snufflebuns shows off a series of advanced gymnastics moves, all the while keeping eye contact with you, and managing to look both professional and adorable at the same time. His skills are enough to earn a perfect Olympic score of 10. You realize that you and Snufflebuns have a special bond, and you truly believe Snufflebuns must be exceptionally talented and smart. Then, you remember your math teacher gushing on and on about how brilliant Albert Einstein was, and you scoff. All Einstein did was discover some formulaic equation, Snufflebuns has so much more potential, and anyways, he’ ll discover something like a new way of adaptation for animals, or something else equally life changing. Snufflebuns is definitely just as smart as Einstein, if not even more brilliant. You wonder, who is truly superior, Albert, or Snufflebuns?
One key area of comparison is social habits, or EQ. Snufflebuns is a chimpanzee, and all chimpanzees are very dependent on each other. Chimps also travel in groups called‘ parties’, maybe because they party all night long together! Snufflebuns loves communicating with his fellow chimpanzees, and appears to be a total socialite / chatterbox. Albert Einstein, on the other hand, was language impaired, and a reluctant talker. He was also very shy, and wasn’ t very social. Whenever he talked, which was very rare, he often repeated sentences under his breath to himself, giving the impression that he was rather dull and dim-witted. Whereas Snufflebuns can’ t stand living alone by himself, Albert Einstein differs from a chimpanzee because he is very independent. To sum it up, Snufflebuns has a higher EQ, and more favorable personality, than that of Albert Einstein.
In addition to being polar opposites of each other in the category of EQ, another area in which