“Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American whose IQ was reportedly believed to be “between 190 and 210”.[1] In Morris 2001, Langan relates that he took what was billed as “the world’s most difficult IQ test” in Omni magazine, and he gives his IQ as “somewhere between 190 and 210”. ”
Oh good a self reporter
Hey I took that Omni test. “pain is to rue as ___ is to ___”
At eighteen I appreciated cleverness more than wisdom.
Hey I took that Omni test. “pain is to rue as ___ is to ___”
At eighteen I appreciated cleverness more than wisdom.
“took what was billed as “the world’s most difficult IQ test” in Omni magazine,”
Yeah - but his drawing of the dog on the match-book cover looked like crap!
Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American whose IQ was reportedly believed to be “between 190 and 210”.
The IQ scale is normalized at one standard deviation per 15 points. An IQ of 190 is 9.9x10^-8% of the human population (about 1 in one billion people), 200 is 1.3x10^(-9)% of the population (about 1 in 76 billion people), and an IQ of 210 is 1.1x10^(-11)% (about 1 in 9 trillion people). Source: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=iq+210
Given the that the world’s population is about 7.6 billion, the IQ for the world’s smartest human should be around 194-195.
Despite some interest from the "Guinness Book of Records" and a British show called "Record Breakers” in the '80s, Langan was able to live a pretty much anonymous, blue-collar existence until Esquire magazine decided to do a "Genius Issue” in 1999. When the magazine asked prominent members of the high-IQ community who should be interviewed, Langan's name consistently popped up. After he was featured there, "20/20” came looking for him and wanted to verify his IQ. The results: He had broken the ceiling on the conventional IQ tests he was given; his intellect was immeasurable by ordinary standards.