IQ
Someone here (unnamed) was speaking about President Adams with an IQ of, oh 170 something long long before Binet introduced the idea ... it's a number for verbal, number and spatial acuityI remember sitting in the high school hall taking this test - the language and number stuff was too easy, the spatial stuff not quite so. The result came back 144+ and my parents asked 'what is the +?' but the reply was 'needs another test'. Who cares!? The number is correlated with but no guarantee of performance.
I recall being bemused by the test, but being competitive by nature, considered how I could get over say 200 - I was 14 or thereabouts, remember.
The number itself never influenced anything!
But who in recent history mentioned it? Considered it significant?
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Jordan Peterson is talking quite much about it.
He seems a bit worried about where the world is heading.
I think it can have some relevance but the term EQ means just as much to me.
Elon Musk, a very successful nerd from South Africa,
he mentioned IQ last, and it is 155 for him.
Plenty good you could say.
Oh.., and he support Trump may I add (while having the opportunity..)
Still.... he talks about colonising Mars.
I consider that totally wasted money, colonise Zahara first.
Another one from Musk that is supposed to be a smart test for job applicants
who wanna work for his companies:
"you walk 5 miles south, and then 5 miles west and then finally 5 miles to the north.
And you find yourself in the same spot as you started. Where are you?"
The answer is the north pole.
Is that really that creative...(?).. maybe, he say it is.
Now, if the Trumpeters/Trumpettes, can Verify AND Fact Check this; then I will accept it to be true, (although, I would still have, Great Difficulty, in accepting, the "stable" part).
With regards, to the IQ's, of historical figures, obviously many of these predate standardised IQ tests; and are therefore Estimates
The list for the presidents, (from which I quote), is by National Geographic. One would presume this list to be fairly accurate
(Strangely, enough, Trump's name does not appear, on any Fact Checked list, that I have hither to before, seen)
That is the ONLY point, which I'm making, (in those comment/s)
My own IQ? Well, I consider that matter, to be private. I will not disclose it, here.....
(I just had, to add, the Inevitable Professor, for this comment)....
“Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it!
Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault,” Trump tweeted in 2013.
Note that the derived numbers for Bush junior accord with my impressions.
If your statements/link (above), are correct, then Trump is neither "stable", nor a genius. ("Genius" is typically specified, for scores, at: IQ 141+)
I'm not praising you, without reason, when I say that your IQ, could well explain your acuity with maths (I do enjoy your maths blogs)...
Given global warming you might well find yourself 4000m underneath the North pole at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean!
@grand "you walk 5 miles south, and then 5 miles west..."
Given global warming you might well find yourself 4000m underneath the North pole at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean!
f(x, y, z, t)
space, that is to say?
I texted in the top 2 percentile. Eligible to join MENSA. And never have. Why? Talk to those in other fields, hobbies and interests that I am not. Or goes over my head because not my field. Or get in a round house with someone who is in my field of interest that doesnt agree with my ideas?
I am ADHD mildly. And have said that genius is the flip side of the coin where retarded is the other side. Average is able to accomplish more quite often. They lack the static that muddles higher IQs minds. I crack up at the movie where the dog gets distracted by a squirrel. Oh boy can I relate! SQUIRREL!
How does one do all the things of interest..read all the books, not get frustrated that time goes by to fast.
Now they are eliminating IQ tests and those scores for college. Perhaps it is bad. Maybe good. A child is ignored because of a lower IQ. Or pushed and pushed and hounded and criticized because his high IQ creates expectations they dont wish to fulfill.
I question how many important people, politicians and others had IQs that got them where they were. Same as income strata one was born into. Personally I rank most of congress and DC to have the brains of a shrimp.
But I forgive your clumsiness.
It's not as easy to hate you as I initially thought but I'm trying my best
But I forgive your clumsiness.
It's not as easy to hate you as I initially thought but I'm trying my best
So you can't be that smart
So you can't be that smart
No one in the world has the IQ of 300, or certainly not 400. IQ scores are based on a Gaussian Distribution (the numbers get scarcer, the more one travels to either extreme end of the curve). Also, the GD (hence IQ) depends on the Standard Deviation of the curve. For example an IQ of 180 (at SD 15), would be equivalent to an IQ of 230, (at SD 24).
Without disclosing, I'm a member of one of the high IQ societies; however; I'm not around the extreme upper limit of the curve, (as in the example above) - Very Few People Are!!! As with you, my verbal IQ is highest (in a timed test) - I suppose that is why I'm a compulsive writer of poetry
No one in the world has the IQ of 300, or certainly not 400. IQ scores are based on a Gaussian Distribution (the numbers get scarcer, the more one travels to either extreme end of the curve). Also, the GD (hence IQ) depends on the Standard Deviation of the curve. For example an IQ of 180 (at SD 15), would be equivalent to an IQ of 230, (at SD 24).
Without disclosing, I'm a member of one of the high IQ societies; however; I'm not around the extreme upper limit of the curve, (as in the example above) - Very Few People Are!!! As with you, my verbal IQ is highest (in a timed test) - I suppose that is why I'm a compulsive writer of poetry
(Above), when I say your maths ability may be related to a high (verbal) IQ score, this would be because of what intelligence researchers call 'g' (or crystallised intelligence). This means that a high scoring ability in a specific area, may actually translate into ability in another area (in your case mathematics). In fact high scores in specific areas are often "coupled" to abilities in other (diverse) spheres of intelligence. (Disregard comment, if you already knew this).
Some people are no good at timed tests! (Their actual mental abilities, far exceed, what a timed test, score would indicate)
Another famous example, would be the physicist Richard Feynman. It is recorded that Feynman scored 'only' 125, on a timed test; yet is often mentioned in the same sentence as Einstein. It would be, a very safe bet, to say that Feynman's IQ, was a very good deal higher than this. There are many other famous examples, also. This, in my opinion, exposes the limits of (timed) IQ test scores.
Not so far fetched, is it?
People underestimate animal intelligence....
And yet more proof, for Evolution...
The missing term is a 3 digit number
? = 1XX (all other 3 digit terms start with a 1)
XX = 00
Take the smallest number from the largest in pairs, in sequence:
19,18,16,13,9
and divide by the same amount to get the last 2 digits, of the next 3 digit term
Therefore:
?=100
19,18,16,13, 9
The missing term is a 3 digit number
? = 1XX (all other 3 digit terms start with a 1)
XX = 00
Take the smallest number from the largest in pairs, in sequence:
19,18,16,13,9
and divide by the same amount to get the last 2 digits, of the next 3 digit term
Therefore:
?=100
(It is not possible to extend this series, further in either direction)
From 199, consider the 9
Take 1 from 9
9-1=8
8÷1=8
Implies 188
And so forth...
8 - 2= 6 (difference between 18, and 16)
6÷2=3 (divide by the same amount)
Implies 133
Etc...