The 16 people with the highest IQ's

[CLAX1911]

Perhaps you were not successful at discerning improper answers. Try to get them right and you might score lower.

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I can score a 20 out of 20. I was always very good at recognizing patterns.

I must be a mensa genius.

 

[ecofarm]

I can score a 20 out of 20. I was always very good at recognizing patterns.

I must be a mensa genius.

Mensa is pretty weak, who hasn't been invited? I believe you qualify for a guest appearance on Big Bang.

 

[AGENT J]

Hmmm, why do you suppose they are all men and white?

might want to actually read the article/link next time so you avoid these types of blatant and common mistakes like this in your posts. Your statement is simply 100% wrong.

 

[Oozlefinch]

Actually, I find it funny because of one lady who was in the porn business.

Asia Carrera was a major porn star in the early 1990's. She was one of the first to set up her own fan web page, and did all the coding herself. A self described nerd, she is a member of MENSA with an IQ recorded at 156. She also performed on the piano twice in Carnegie Hall before she was 15. Attended Rutgers on a full scholastic scholarship (1440 SAT), double major in Business and Japanese.



And ironically, she is in the news today. This is because she released her drivers license yesterday, in which she wears a colander on her head in the photograph, saying it is a requirement for her religion being a Pastafarian.

Cute, super intelligent, and uber-nerd. 10+ for awesome.

 

[Oozlefinch]

I took that one too. Mine didn't give a precise number. It just said "above 145". I knew I'd do well on it because when I took the Stanford-Binet IQ examination many many moons ago I totaled a 158, which is well into the top 99.99th percentile.

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Funny.

Why does your chart look exactly like this chart from 2009?

The Official INTP Central IQ Challenge Results

 

[Muhammed]

Why does your chart look exactly like this chart from 2009?

It doesn't. Look again, jelly.

 

[Taylor]

I do find it a little odd that most of the people on that list are males, and it is often considered that women have different ways their minds associate things. It is also not terribly hard to reason that tests developed in a predominantly male promoting society would skew towards addressing male thinking patterns over female.

Quite the contrary. When the IQ test was first developed, it was already known that men performed better on some tasks and women performed better on others. Working from the assumption that girls and boys were of equal intelligence (the original purpose was to predict success in school) - the test was weighted such that the average score for both groups was 100.

Yes, the list is more highly populated with males, but not because they score better than women as a group, but because men are just more variable in general. If you were to compare the two population distributions, both would be bell curves with the same average, but the male curve would be slightly longer and flatter - meaning that both extremely high and extremely low intelligence individuals tend to be men.

 

[EnigmaO01]

I'll give them a looksy when I get home.

I think my IQ score was 129 years ago, but it was ordered by my pediatrician and given by a off site clinic.

I don't remember too much about it.

Anybody ever notice that when people post their I.Q.'s they are always at least above average or higher? Why do you think that is? LOL

And all these 130's and above in a small percentile of the population in one thread? I call bull****.

 

[EnigmaO01]

No, they have proved to be invalid since they don't predict anything useful. There are people with extremely high IQ in minimum wage jobs. And vice versa. Feynman had an IQ that was only slightly above average.

In short, the OP is stupid and shows a lack of IQ.

The best explanation I ever heard was the following: the only sure thing an I.Q. test measures is the ability to take an I.Q. test.

 

[Taylor]

The best explanation I ever heard was the following: the only sure thing an I.Q. test measures is the ability to take an I.Q. test.

Whatever it is they measure, Joaquin couldn't have been more wrong in asserting that such tests have been "proven invalid" and "don't predict anything useful." Tests of intelligence are highly predictive of all sorts of outcomes. I can't think of a single variable with more predictive utility than "the ability to take an IQ test."

 

[Oozlefinch]

I can't think of a single variable with more predictive utility than "the ability to take an IQ test."

You also many times have the reverse. Those individuals who know the material of a subject forwards, backwards, and sideways on their heads. Yet are unable to pass a test on the subject for various reasons.

 

[EnigmaO01]

Whatever it is they measure, Joaquin couldn't have been more wrong in asserting that such tests have been "proven invalid" and "don't predict anything useful." Tests of intelligence are highly predictive of all sorts of outcomes. I can't think of a single variable with more predictive utility than "the ability to take an IQ test."

You may be right but I'm not qualified to answer that. Certainly in tasks or jobs that require the same ability to get correct answers on an I.Q. tests it would be an outstanding measure of aptitude.

 

[Taylor]

You also many times have the reverse. Those individuals who know the material of a subject forwards, backwards, and sideways on their heads. Yet are unable to pass a test on the subject for various reasons.

Yes, which goes back to what Enigma said about intelligence tests not measuring intelligence so much as being able to perform well on an intelligence test. The "various reasons" impacting a score on such a test (poor recall, anxiety, low confidence, inattention, just don't care, etc.) are also likely to impact correlated outcomes (school success, job performance, etc.)

 

[EnigmaO01]

Actually, I find it funny because of one lady who was in the porn business.

Asia Carrera was a major porn star in the early 1990's. She was one of the first to set up her own fan web page, and did all the coding herself. A self described nerd, she is a member of MENSA with an IQ recorded at 156. She also performed on the piano twice in Carnegie Hall before she was 15. Attended Rutgers on a full scholastic scholarship (1440 SAT), double major in Business and Japanese.



And ironically, she is in the news today. This is because she released her drivers license yesterday, in which she wears a colander on her head in the photograph, saying it is a requirement for her religion being a Pastafarian.

Cute, super intelligent, and uber-nerd. 10+ for awesome.

Awesome? I call it a tragedy and waste of a God given gift. All that brains that many people would love to have and she becomes a trashy porn star. Looks like she's got a screw loose now too.

 

[RAMOSS]

Anybody ever notice that when people post their I.Q.'s they are always at least above average or higher? Why do you think that is? LOL

And all these 130's and above in a small percentile of the population in one thread? I call bull****.

One thing , the people interested in intelligence are the ones more likely to be intelligent. The dumb asses don't give a damn. Therefore, the results would be skewed to begin with. Next, people always over estimate their intelligence, and a lot of these online test's inflate numbers to cater to egos.

 

[EnigmaO01]

Yes, exactly, if you really want to know your IQ, you get the test done with a psychologist, in a process that might take up to 4 hours... If memory serves.

In simple terms it works out to like processing power of a computer.

In the sense that the brain density of those with the highest IQ can actually almost double the average. It qualifies them as a different species of human.

However, most of the time have a low emotional intelligence meaning they are more likely to be socially dysfunctional, with higher rates of drug abuse and suicide than the average.

Keep in mind I'm talking about this in the top 1% vs the top 50%. Again if memory serves 80% of people fall between 90-110 IQ.

Anyway, Internet IQ tests are a fine pass time but essentially useless.

Not as useless as internet threads where just about everybody defies statistics and have high I.Q.'s.