Estimated IQs of great people

What the frak? I leave you guys for a few hours and you start talking about your manhood?

 

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Could have been worse.
You missed the bit where they talked about yours.

 

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Wait, was that in the Hottest Man Alive thread?

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Keep taking the tablets.

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Wait, is that a reference to the little blue pill?

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No, it's an indication that if you take your medication you won't suffer from the delusion that we'd even mention you in the Hottest Man Alive thread.

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:roflmao: Good one.

 

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/highest-iq-score.html


Highest IQ Score in the World

There is no specific data on the highest IQ score possible by an individual, but there is information about the highest IQ score ever recorded by an individual. The person in question Marilyn Vos Savant, who recorded a staggering 228 in an IQ test. She is now enlisted in the Guinness Book of World Records for receiving the highest IQ score ever. She is an American magazine columnist, lecturer, author and playwright. She writes a column called 'Ask Marilyn', every Sunday in the Parade Magazine, where she solves queries of readers on a plethora of topics, including puzzles.

Next in line is Kim Ung-yong, a child prodigy from Korea, who started displaying phenomenal intellectual abilities right since he was 6 months old. He has also made it to the Guinness Book of World Record under the category 'Highest IQ', for receiving a score of 210. He developed the ability to speak when he was 6 months old, and by 1 year of age, he could speak fluently. By 3 years of age, he could read Korean, German, Japanese and English, and at 6 years of age, he solved a calculus problem on television. At the age of 7, Kim was invited to NASA by the United States, where he did several research studies. He eventually completed his Ph.D. in Physics in the United States. He is now a prominent scholar in this field.

The highest IQ score you can get is thus, not measurable by standards, but by your intellectual ability. There may be someone out there who can easily beat these records. In short, there is indeed no limit to the IQ score one can attain.


Low IQ & Mental Retardation
5% of people have an IQ under 70 and this is generally considered as the benchmark for "mental retardation", a condition of limited mental ability in that it produces difficulty in adapting to the demands of life.

Severity of mental retardation can be broken into 4 levels:

50-70 - Mild mental retardation (85%)

35-50 - Moderate mental retardation (10%)

20-35 - Severe mental retardation (4%)

IQ < 20 - Profound mental retardation (1%)

High IQ & Genius IQ
Genius IQ is generally considered to begin around 140 to 145, representing ~.25% of the population (1 in 400). Here's a rough guide:

115-124 - Above average (e.g., university students)
125-134 - Gifted (e.g., post-graduate students)
135-144 - Highly gifted (e.g., intellectuals)
145-154 - Genius (e.g., professors)
155-164 - Genius (e.g., Nobel Prize winners)
165-179 - High genius
180-200 - Highest genius
>200 - "Unmeasurable genius"

 

She's virtually a freakshow though, isn't she?
She's made books, but they are all about thinking and solving puzzles.
I bet if you spoke to her for five minutes, the conversation would get round to puzzles.

Given the choice, I would much prefer to spend the day with a Pygmy,
average IQ 54 according to a very quick google.

Their God does not live in the heavens since from there He could not see what was happening in the jungle beneath the trees and beneath the leaves. He exists in the trunks, in the marshes, in the gullies, among the roots. He directs the pygmy's arrow so that the monkey falls at his feet. He startles the antelope so that they end up in the traps that have been prepared. They Pygmies smoke the hallucinogen "Bangi" (marijuana). They suffer from "raspberry" (an illness similar to syphilis but not venereal). They fear the society of "the black population." Their greatest priority is freedom. They own nothing, yet they have thousands of hectares of jungle. In two hours they can have a new house, built only by the wife.

http://www.rmsl.es/zaire/english/pygmies.htm

 

It's spud's influence.
He's bad.

 

Yeah, he brought up the subject.

 

you do of course know that they subsidise your IQ score to sit with ppl in your age group? and that the IQ test given to you probably was not the adult IQ test?
...which means one thing...

you're underaverage

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Baah... im a fuggin genious... im jus un-educated an dont do well on tests.!!!

Well... escept on my 7th grade science class tests... i made A's an B's an didnt even have to study-jus listen to the teecher in class.!!!

 

They don't give adult tests for schools.....chances are, it is the WISC.