Posted on 03/05/2025 4:33:52 PM PST by grundle
Christopher Langan, the Smartest Man in the World, Compares Donald Trump’s IQ
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Doesn’t count - not a ‘living person’.
I’ve estimated Trump’s IQ to be about 150-160, with a knack for being uncommonly canny and he works hard. Never a moment does he become unengaged withe life.
That last part undoubtedly was drilled into him by his father. But the first two, you have to be born with. You can’t learn a high IQ and you can’t learn how to weave between points like water to get what you want. Those are inborn qualities of a person.
He’s comparing averages, based on the people in their occupations. You can’t become a certain occupation without the requisite IQ. Nobody is going to become a doctor, unless they have an average IQ of about 130, for example. It just can’t be done for most people.
He’s saying that Trump has performed at the thinking level of somebody who functions as a Harvard professor.
Great one
I estimated his IQ to be between 150-160.
I’ve been tested at a stable 135-150.
That doesn’t mean you won’t have moments where everything mentally comes together and you function at a higher level than your stable, day-to-day, IQ. However, your stable IQ is what you function at most times of the day.
The test the military gives, when you enlist, functions as a form of IQ test. They want to try and separate those who might make officers from those who are best as enlisted men.
See, you’re not a moron
Let's suppose this is provable by some objective measure...
Can he prove for a fact that Jesus is the Law of David? It's super EZ if you know where to look. The simplicity is shocking. Like finding Waldo. Child's play.
But there's also this regarding intelligence:
It is interesting to note that in a halachic debate, the final verdict in Jewish law isn’t necessarily bestowed upon the one who is the more intelligent. Rather it is decided based on the opinion of the person who is the more humble.6 What does the Torah tell us about Moses? Not that he was a brilliant scholar, but that he was the epitome of humility.
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Even before King David became king, he was known as “the final verdict.”8 King Saul, his predecessor, was brilliant, but the halachah was determined according to David. We know that David was very humble; he is called “the servant of the L-rd” and “My servant David.”9
Additionally, Hillel, the famous Tannaic rabbi and scholar, faced off time and time again against his colleague Shammai in determining Jewish law. Shammai was actually intellectually sharper than Hillel, but the halachah was decided according to Hillel because of his humility and kindness.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137086/jewish/Nun.htm
Jill Biden is a “doctor” So...
Trump’s uncle, John, was a professor at MIT, and along with Professor Van de Graff (yup, that Van de Graff) started a company called High Voltage Engineering. They made linear accelerators. They are still in business. Van de Graff was a fifth generation Alabaman.
She’s a doctor of education. I meant a medical doctor.
A doctor of education can be achieved by literally anybody who graduates from high school, when high schools actually prepared the population to work.
It is also true that IQ rises with educational level. They’ve track students’ IQ entering university and their IQ rises as they obtained a Bs/BA. It rose again if they obtained an MS/MA and again with a PhD.
There is an element of learning in intelligence.
Nobel Prizewinner Richard Feynman's IQ was tested as 125 when he was in high school.
Then he took MIT's entrance exam, and got a perfect score. That had happened only a few times in the school's history. He was accepted by that school. They didn't care a fig about his IQ test result.
This was before the SAT, ACT, etc.
Feynman was one of the most productive and creative physicists in history. His name is known to everyone who studies the subject to any depth beyond a freshman survey course.
I’m going to argue that you cannot raise you inborn IQ beyond. You can only damage what you are capable of and function at. So somebody with an 160 IQ can possibly achieve a performance comparable to that, but he could end up less based on his childhood, nutritional factors, habits, and environment. However, if he is born with a 160IQ, he will not supercharge himself to become somebody with a 175 IQ.
My IQ is a stable 135-150. It’s been repeatedly tested, to try and find out why I had so much difficulty being a good student. However, having said that, my inborn IQ was probably higher but that’s where it ended up with all the factors in my life that worked to reduce my potential in life.
The average PhD holder has an IQ of about 135.
I am sort of like you though. I have neither a valid HS diploma or GED. But I have an earned PhD.
I’m in the same range of him, testing between 186 (didn’t have my coffee that day) up to 208, and I concur...
While I don’t put a LOT of importance on the number, it does help you see connections and patterns at scale. This guy would be interesting to talk with.
My knowledge level is pretty broad and deep, but I don’t have any papers to show that. I just keep reading and researching about what interests me on my own.
I do the Batman method of becoming educated. Bruce Wayne, in the comics, only has some basket weaving degree as part of his image of being a billionaire playboy, but his actual knowledge if he was real would be comparable to doctorates in criminology and sciences and computer languages and full-sensai status in several martial arts. Everything he knows he learned on his own.
Figure iq of hard sciences or classical prof of 80s or 90s to be about same as MD about 130 to 135
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