What this means is we just don't understand intelligence all that well. It's not a simple numbers game.
BTW: The Feynman Lectures on Physics are great. And on youtube you can find some great Feynman biographies and other videos.
Posted on 12/14/2013 3:11:11 PM PST by Star Traveler
Sherwyn Sarabi scored an IQ of 160, just like Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking. The British boy is already studying at the level of a 9-year-old and has read over 190 books.
A four-year-old boy has stunned psychologists—after intelligence tests revealed him to have the same IQ as Einstein.
Sherwyn Sarabi has tested off the scale for intelligence—scoring an IQ of 160—the highest mark on the test.
It's the same score that experts believe scientist Einstein had, as well as being identical to that of Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking.
Sherwyn from Barnsley, Yorks, started school two years early and became a member of Mensa at the age of three.
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I believe that I’ve read that Einstein’s was estimated ...
I estimate Obozo’s at maybe 115 ... on a good day.
So was Einstein.
That’s a pretty funny reply because, as a teen, I got E=MC2 tattooed on my right butt cheek specifically because I was such a smart-ass. I guess in some ways I still am.
That’s sad. I lost all my encryption keys in a boating accident.
Nicely said.
This was turning into a my-IQ-is-bigger-than-your-IQ thread.
Yeah, intelligence is a fuzzy concept.
The best definition of it that I've read is that it is the ability to see reality for what it is. It is the ability to set aside one's biases and prejudices and analyze a situation.
But it does seem to be selective. People can be very intelligent in one area and not very in another.
Thankfully, I've never suffered from that particular problem.
Heh.
Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking. Oh brother.
This rather indefinite number that represents “IQ” is a very shaky construct. Individuals with a very high level form of autism, Asperger’s syndrome, which is closely associated with a “high” IQ, are also socially awkward and given to obsessive-compulsive behavior, making them seem a little bizarre to other people.
And hey, you think that view of the world looks a little odd from the outside, you ought to see how it looks from in here.
Actually, I was wondering what Steve Jobs’ IQ was ... does anyone know, or has it ever been reported?
“I lost my IQ in a canoeing accident.”
Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!
TOO_SMART_BY_HALF_PING!
You will have to talk nerdy to them.
The author states that his IQ is “off the scale” and then assigns it an empirical value. Obviously he is no Einstein.
Thanks but I lost all my chickens in a canoeing accident.
What this means is we just don't understand intelligence all that well. It's not a simple numbers game.
BTW: The Feynman Lectures on Physics are great. And on youtube you can find some great Feynman biographies and other videos.
You sir, are truly wise - which is much more valuable than raw intelligence.
I knew one in College who was a Chess Whiz ... and a babe. But her morals were *ahem* lacking.
Albert Einstein eschewed capitalism and spoke favorably of socialism, so that should show that a high IQ doesn’t automatically translate into a rational mind.
I’ll take Ayn Rand over Einstein any day.
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