In "The Rise and Fall of Chinese Genius," educational psychologist and American University professor Kuo You-yu cites the story of Cao Chong weighing the elephant to illustrate how problem solving abilities have been regarded by Chinese people as a manifestation of genius from ancient times.
在美國大學任教的教育心理學家郭有遹，在著作《中國天才盛衰史》中，舉了三國時代「曹沖秤象」的故事為例，說明解決問題的能力自古即被我們視為天才的表現之一。