Talk:Kim Peek

message: What about Kim's mother? Softy (talk) 14:29, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kim's mother 

message: :"In 2004, Peek met another savant, Daniel Tammet, for the UK Channel Five documentary The Boy with the Incredible Brain.[12] He hugged Tammet and said "Some day you'll be as great as I am."
How relevant is that?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.194.177.234 (talk) 03:08, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Tammet-Hugging

message: I'm glad to see that someone put the date of death back to December 19th (as I typed it)! Someone changed it after my entry (to Dec. 20th), and that was WRONG. Honestly people, do some research and get a source before you correct someone! I knew Kim, and received the information first-hand from his father, Fran.
Wikipedia has secured permission from Darold A. Treffert, M.D. to use the text and pictures from the following link:
http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/kimpeek.cfm
N.B. Click on "Savant Syndrome" icon, bottom left; "Page Not Found" message is irrelevant.
Frankly speaking (talk) 09:38, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Death

message: I once read that Peek could remember only about 95% of things he's read. It might be nice to find the actual percentage if anyone has the time. -- Someone
If he can remember the content of the books he reads, why does he need to turn the books themselves upside down to remember which ones he has read, which is surely much easier to memorize? 130.234.170.84 17:28, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was not for him, but for others to know that he had read and memorized them, and did not want to be bothered with them.--Hypergeometric2F1(a,b,c,x) 05:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I removed the figure "98.7%" since no source was cited. Even if his father has given that figure, this is very obviously a rough impression - we shouldn't be leading readers to believe that this really has been measured to three significant figures. --GenericBob (talk) 02:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Memorizing

message: If Kim Peek wasn't a savant, please, where is the reference that supports this claim following the final sentence of the introductory paragraph to the wikipedia page on him that ends with FG Syndrome?
According to this article, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6964730.ece , he was an autistic savant.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZenithNoesis (talk • contribs) 00:14, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: My guess is that the belief that Kim Peek is not autistic came from people who interpretted the claim that Kim Peek is not "behaviorally autistic" too literally. Q0 05:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not autistic (AGAIN!) 

message: Thanks for the subtle humor (or whatever you'd call it), giving the weekday for his birth date, and thereby deviating from the norm of listed dates on Wikipedia to tie in with his ability at telling weekdays quickly. I hope it's not removed but stays -- it gave me a smile, and there's nothing saying we can't have weekdays like this in the intro text. :-) -- Northgrove 03:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, those 10 bytes could be better spent elsewhere! Tsch, please... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.43.182.51 (talk) 21:45, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The birth date 

message: I saw a documentary recently that said he has heart problems because he never exercises and likes junk food. That should probably be added. Jack Daw 14:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Now that he's died of a heart attack, I guess "Dreamyshade" can bite it, eh?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.229.138 (talk) 21:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health? 

message: The word "importantly" is an adverb.  "Most importantly," therefore, is incorrect grammar.  Your sentence should read, "most important, . . ."  I have made this small change.
:What? Adjectives can modify adverbs, why the heck can't they?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 04:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syntax Change 

message: The text I added withour citation about his ability to read the left page with the left eye, and the right with the right comes from a comment made by his father Fran in the documentary "Daniel Tammet - The Boy With The Incredible Brain", viewable on YouTube. I'll let the person who took it down restore it. He can add the comment about 8 seconds too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.154.125.189 (talk) 12:57, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reading ability 

message: Just a simple question: who cares of what church Kim Peek is a member?  It has exactly nothing to do with why people are interested in his life.  It would be cool for someone to remove this extraneous detail from the page.  66.45.157.158 (talk) 18:05, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Peeks were very active within the LDS Church, and their religion is an important part of Kim's biography.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.229.138 (talk) 21:16, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

text: Where is the reference to backup the claim of his religion ? Why is such a claim in a biographical article with no backup ? Looks rather poor - 114.129.180.236 (talk) 11:23, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion 

message: In the article it says that he can recall 12000 books. Does it mean the titles or the content?--Megaman en m (talk) 18:48, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Both.  He really is that amazing. --  JackofOz (talk) 00:06, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  question 

message: "information bounces around in his lob"
"immobilize his left lob"
I am not a neurologist, but I suspect this section has been added by someone with even less knowledge : Is that supposed to be 'lobe' ?--195.137.93.171 (talk) 18:29, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  neurological terminology 

message: From the article about Kim Peek documentaries:
Isn't this just a Swedish translation of the documentary mentioned above, not a unique documentary made in Sweden? 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 18:22, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Den Riktiga Rain Man

message: As Peek had such a unique brain, did he leave it to science after his death? 86.147.160.219 (talk) 18:18, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  After death 

message: In the article Ben Klassen is was determined that White is not an ethnic group because "White is a racial not an ethnic grouping. The main difference between ethnicity and race is that race is made up of categories into which persons are put by others on the basis of their physical characteristics - ethnicity is group into which one puts oneself because one identifies with its characteristics which are usually cultural rather than physical..."  Is the term "White American" an appropriate title for Peek's ethnicity?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scochran4 (talk • contribs) 19:12, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnicity

message: It is not logic to call it megasavant. It's as little logic as calling it kilosavant or terrasavant. In proper language, supersavant is correct. Urbanus Secundus (talk) 17:36, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The source says megasavant, as does his father, so that is the term used in the article. Beach drifter (talk) 17:51, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Supersavant not megasavant

message: The article says "He became a Hafiz after reading the Qu'ran in 10 minutes".  According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran), the Qu'ran is approximately 80,000 words long, thus, to read it in 10 minutes you'd have to read 133 words per second.  This must be wrong?  Maybe 10 hours?  I think this should be carefully checked or removed as such implausible figures call into question the accuracy of everything else.  118.92.86.67 (talk) 07:56, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Even if he did read it that fast, Peek shouldn't qualify as a Hafiz, since, if I'm not mistaken, its not considered a real copy of the Koran unless it's in the original Arabic. I'll be removing this part.Cephalopod (talk) 01:10, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  10 minutes to read the Qu'ran? 

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message: I can't enter original research, but there should be supporting articles in the film industry magazines of the day. I read that Dustin Hoffman invited Kim to the opening of the film and arranged for his transportation from Utah to Los Angeles. Does anyone have good access to magazine archives of the era? Many thanks. Rainbow-five (talk) 00:43, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dustin Hoffman's guest at premiere of Rain Man?  

message: Should be mentioned in the article I think, but I don't know if this is a sufficient good source for that.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133906508/francis-elvin-peek 188.194.63.94 (talk) 15:58, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: findagrave is not a reliable source; see WP:RSP. Also, this article is about Kim Peek, not about his father, so I don't think it's important to mention when his father died. CodeTalker (talk) 17:35, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kim was survived by his father Fran who died in 2014