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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Iq is how fast one processes and at what level of abstraction one apprehends
Basically, because he scored 100% on all his IQ tests. The rest is an estimation because they can’t test for it. There is no test that they create, at this time, to determine a reasonable estimation of what his IQ might be.
It’s also a bit about marketing. It’s a selling point for him to say he’s the smartest man in the world and being able to back it up because they can’t test him for it.
‘ I am sort of like you though. I have neither a valid HS diploma or GED. But I have an earned PhD.’
You be you and continue on, do your best, but c’mon.
Bless your heart.
I could tell several hours worth of stories about the power of his mind, at that age. There's a movie called The Iron Giant about a ten-year-old boy who befriends an enormous high-intelligence robot of virtually unlimited power. That's what my friend was like, in the intellectual sphere. In every category, he knew much more about math and science than I did, and he was utterly generous with his knowledge. He would share everything he knew with me, and was a wonderfully patient and skillful teacher as well.
I witnessed with my own eyes — more than once — his accomplishment of mental feats that one would have to see to believe.
He got a full scholarship to an extremely famous university. In his freshman year, he allowed himself to be seduced by that university's drug and lifestyle scene, and by his second semester had gone completely off the rails, ending up in a series of mental institutions. He had developed schizophrenia, which he later conquered using the method of John Nash; that of "active suppression" of the voices and other manifestations of that terrible disease. He did this so well that he had a successful career at a technology company that is a household name, and at which he was one of the early hires. He is now independently wealthy, and lives a life of obscurity.
I have no idea what his IQ was, but if I were to guess, it would be in the 160+ range. At those high levels, I'm not sure the numerical "IQ" value really means very much.
But based on my observations of my friend, just having an exceptionally high "IQ" doesn't guarantee very much, and there are plenty of ways for someone at that level to come to grief.
I know someone who scored 800 in both math and verbal in the SAT. He went on to Harvard and graduated. His career was unexceptional.
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The SAT back then was a predictor on who would be able to manage the work of college. Your friend fullfilled the prediction.
“well, i haven’t taken the test yet”
I did 30 years ago, a pedestrian 118, but well out of Democrat territory by 30 points.
I took it in 3rd grade and again online recently. Just short of a genius IQ, I’m “gifted”.
105 is pedestrian.
118 is 1 standard deviation above the mean
Here is the full version of Michael Knowles with Christopher Langan. It is well worth taking the time. I watched it completely in several sessions. When both Michael and Christopher light up their cigars and keep talking, the visuals are great. The far ranging subject matter is also worthwhile.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9miVG2xT5jY
There might be a lot of other people in the world who would score 100%; but they haven’t been tested. So we can’t say that he has the highest IQ of any living person.
Of course that would be true as well.
Again, it’s just marketing. He can market himself as the smartest man, because we have no test that can test for it.
IQ is not like athletics, where we can have an objective measure by just having people perform. I would say to not take it that serious when somebody makes that claim, because we can’t test against it.
And processing and abstraction can be improved with practice. I’m not saying some people aren’t born smarter than others only that IQ can be improved with the mental practice and training involved with education. That is what the research shows. And it is just common sense. Think of IQ as learning to play a musical instrument, but the instrument is your mind.
“As I recall, Elaine Benes in Seinfeld had quite a high IQ.”
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And boy can that girl dance, right?
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Feynman wrote a three volume treatise on physics. He used it in his introductory physics course for entering Caltech students.
I used it in my first semester of physics at Glendale Junior College in Glendale, California. The professor for that class was quite good. I should have gone back and told hime the rest of this story, because he was partially responsible, even though he gave me a “B”, which I deserved. At the time, I was working full time and going to school full time causing me to be half asleep in his class.
I attended the University of Oklahoma in 1972 for an electrical engineering education. The engineering department sent all the engineering students to take physics in the physics department along with the aspiring physicists. They expected sub-par students to wash out.
I used the Feynman books along with the course text, Halliday and Resnick.
When it was time to prepare for the semester final exam for the four classes of 120 students, our professor explained that throughout the semester the three professors that taught the four class sessions would each make up a third of the tests. Then they would take the combined test to verify its validity and coverage of course material.
He explained that I had tied one of the professors in the combined scores. Therefore they decided that I did not need to take the final!
BTW: I recently went through recovery of a spinal fluid leak at Barrow’s Neurlogical Institute. During the recovery, I was examined and assessed
by several neurologists. IQ was 145. At the exit interview with my wife present, they referred to me as a Renaissance Man operating at a high intelligence level.
They warned me that, as I aged, people would not notice if I exhibited dementia. They told me that I should assess myself so that I would be aware of problems, should they arise.
I have been using a Sudoku app which keeps track of my running average.
One of my all-time favorite books is “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!”
Brilliantly funny, serious, and fun to read. I expect I differ dramatically ideologically from Richard Feynman, but he is one of those people I would have loved to spend an afternoon with!
That has also been said of Marilyn vos Savant, who is still alive.
If Yeshua was a Pharisee, which is logically defensible, then he would be in the stream of Beit Hallel, and his halachah would have been more compassionate and merciful than that of the more perfunctory Shammai. The Gospels bear this out. It’s Chassids and Mitnagim, n’est ce pas?
Yup. Like Obambi’s buddy who got arrested by “stupid” Boston cops.
Einstein dropped out of one school, and flunked a college entrance exam. But he persisted.
No.
That’s not how statistics work.
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