Top 12 People with Highest IQ in the World ........ FWIW!

Ronin Truth said:
So the average IQ, from the tests, is 100.

The world is run by C students.
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I don't know why you insist on perpetuating this myth. The world is run by the smartest, not by those there are the most of. It doesn't matter how the average outnumber the exceptional, the exceptional will still be exceptional.
 
Wait a minute - they want me to believe that 154 is one of the twelve highest IQs in the world? Bullshit. I took an IQ test my sophomore year and snuck a look at the report on my guidance counselor's desk when she excused herself for a moment. 152. I am NOT that smart (wish I were), so either the valuation of 154 as being something special is way wrong or I just got very lucky that day.

250-300? The hell? That is absurd. Goethe is estimated to have been ca. 210.

Anyhow, I have always felt this whole IQ notion was a load of crap.
 
osan said:
Wait a minute - they want me to believe that 154 is one of the twelve highest IQs in the world? Bull$#@!. I took an IQ test my sophomore year and snuck a look at the report on my guidance counselor's desk when she excused herself for a moment. 152. I am NOT that smart (wish I were), so either the valuation of 154 as being something special is way wrong or I just got very lucky that day.

250-300? The hell? That is absurd. Goethe is estimated to have been ca. 210.

Anyhow, I have always felt this whole IQ notion was a load of crap.
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Ya , I thought the list was just picking some people in those ranges . Around 150 is about where you may want to be .Means you probably have some abilities to learn problem solving skills and you are not too crazy .
 
It depends on the test, 250 on any system seems a bit self-masturbatory.

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Mine was 138 when I was tested in school 26 years ago..

I still can't spell worth a damn and I need a calculator to do simple math.
I used to tell them that spelling/grammar were not important to understand something in context.
Also told them that I don't need to waste my time learning simple math as I will always have a calculator.
(A bit prophetic seeing that auto correct now exists and I have a calculator on my cell phone.)

They thought I had some learning disability in school, I think I was just bored, I knew more than the teachers on most subjects.
I had read every book on physics, cosmology, geology, and history in both my high school and public library before I finished middle school.
That is what I found interesting, just plowed through the sections one book after another just absorbing all of it.

I have problems when dealing with the public, I feel that most people are mildly retarded...
 
LibertyRevolution said:
I have problems when dealing with the public, I feel that most people are mildly retarded...
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That's because they are.

I'd been called into Ms. Schneider's office about "the test". I remember the somber face and the evasions - I was certain she just felt so uncomfortable telling me I was a blazing retard. We never got to anything substantive and I was convinced there was something terribly wrong with me. Didn't dare tell my folks, so I just shut up about it and despite Ms. Schneider's assurance that we were going to "do something special" with me, I never heard another word. The only thing that happened was I did some special mathematics thingy for a few months with others who'd demonstrated above-average ability. In hindsight I saw I'd fallen through the cracks once again as I always had before, completely forgotten... which suited me just fine. Growing up as I had, attention was not something to be sought, but rather to be thankfully evaded.

Years later I came to the understanding that it was believed in those days that a child's IQ score should never be revealed to them. Looking at it today, this attitude was clearly a product of left-progressive architecture to prevent the dumbasses from having hurt feelings and the smart kids from flying to their full potential. God forbid either case be made manifest, especially the latter. EEKWALIDDY... That's the ticket. In hindsight, it has angered me that I grew up in a nation set so steadfastly to fostering the greatest degree of retardation in its citizens.

One of the great discoveries of my life, and I recall it having been sparked by something someone once said to me, was that school mattered no whit in terms of one's intellectual development. It proved so true. I took off and pursued knowledge the way Social Justice Warriors pursue their psychosis-spawne, anger-fueled, and bitterness-stoked ideals. The one decent thing I did as an adjunct professor at CCNY was to transmit that little gem of someone else's wisdom to as many other people as possible. It is an important detail in the salvation of the intellectual lives of young people, that they are responsible for their own development and that nobody can hold them back no matter how malicious or ignorant. I taught my students how to learn and many of them caught on in a big way. It is one of the very few things for which I can be marginally proud - my way of spitting into the eyes of the tyrant... not that it made any real difference.
 
oyarde said:
Ya , I thought the list was just picking some people in those ranges . Around 150 is about where you may want to be .Means you probably have some abilities to learn problem solving skills and you are not too crazy .
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Yeah, the more I think on it, the more absurd this list appears in the context of how it is being sold. I have known (and still do) several geniuses, and by "genius" I mean freakish intellects so developed and brutishly capable that when I am around them I wonder why I even bother. My friend at Microsoft is a towering intellect, though a bit narrow along technical lines - typical of the type, it seems. My friend Steve, who was once a Crayon (Cray employee) is staggering, having single-handedly written Cray's math libraries. When he was 45 he took the MCAT on a lark. His scores were so high, nearly twenty of the top medical schools in the nation offered him full scholarships. He'd not cracked a book, even on topics he'd not considered since sophomore year in high school. My dad's best friend and my honorary uncle, Zoli, was another freakish intellect. His grandfather was Miksa Róth, a famous Hungarian glass artist. Zoli suffered significantly under the socialist system in Hungary for the crime of having been born into an aristocratic family. He drank heavily. That aside, just sitting in the same room with him always made me feel smarter... as if it rubbed off. In a way it did because I held him in such awe that I wanted to be like him in terms of smarts.

My point is that if a dope like me knows that many high-caliber intellects, there are far more than a dozen such people running about. This internet-era phenomenon of casual, no-relent hyperbole taken to the nth-power is terribly wearisome, not to mention rankly boring. It gets so that you don't want to pursue links for the prospect of yet another disappointment. Once again we see how abuse of language leads to abuse of thought, leading to discounted and disparaged quality of life.
 
osan said:
Yeah, the more I think on it, the more absurd this list appears in the context of how it is being sold. I have known (and still do) several geniuses, and by "genius" I mean freakish intellects so developed and brutishly capable that when I am around them I wonder why I even bother. My friend at Microsoft is a towering intellect, though a bit narrow along technical lines - typical of the type, it seems. My friend Steve, who was once a Crayon (Cray employee) is staggering, having single-handedly written Cray's math libraries. When he was 45 he took the MCAT on a lark. His scores were so high, nearly twenty of the top medical schools in the nation offered him full scholarships. He'd not cracked a book, even on topics he'd not considered since sophomore year in high school. My dad's best friend and my honorary uncle, Zoli, was another freakish intellect. His grandfather was Miksa Róth, a famous Hungarian glass artist. Zoli suffered significantly under the socialist system in Hungary for the crime of having been born into an aristocratic family. He drank heavily. That aside, just sitting in the same room with him always made me feel smarter... as if it rubbed off. In a way it did because I held him in such awe that I wanted to be like him in terms of smarts.

My point is that if a dope like me knows that many high-caliber intellects, there are far more than a dozen such people running about. This internet-era phenomenon of casual, no-relent hyperbole taken to the nth-power is terribly wearisome, not to mention rankly boring. It gets so that you don't want to pursue links for the prospect of yet another disappointment. Once again we see how abuse of language leads to abuse of thought, leading to discounted and disparaged quality of life.
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A bunch of them are merely idiot savants, BTW. Curious phenomenon, I really wonder what's going on there. :confused:
 
Next President of the US Donald Trump is probably pretty high on that list
 
CPUd said:
It depends on the test, 250 on any system seems a bit self-masturbatory.

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There's more to it but this is part of it; (wiki)
On a related note, this fixed standard deviation means that the proportion of the population who have IQs in a particular range is theoretically fixed, and current Wechsler tests only give Full Scale IQs between 40 and 160. This should be borne in mind when considering reports of people with much higher IQs.[43][44]
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IQ scales are ordinally scaled.[38][39][40][41][42] While one standard deviation is 15 points, and two SDs are 30 points, and so on, this does not imply that mental ability is linearly related to IQ, such that IQ 50 means half the cognitive ability of IQ 100. In particular, IQ points are not percentage points.
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Ronin Truth said:
A bunch of them are merely idiot savants, BTW. Curious phenomenon, I really wonder what's going on there. :confused:
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Not sure I'd qualify the savant part as "mere". Being able to instantly multiply two 1000-digit integers is yet another clear demonstration of the inherently miraculous nature of this universe. Phenomena like this renders the atheist's opinion all the more childishly nonsensical.

There be miracles everywhere one looks.
 
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