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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Huh.
The phrase “lies, damned lies, and statistics” comes to mind.
I’m not sure that I believe in the whole ‘IQ’ business anyway.
There’s intellectual IQ and there’s Street smarts IQ, or as I call it real world smarts IQ.
My daughter’s IQ is well above average, but not mensa. About 135 if I recall correctly. However if there was a Mensa for real world/ Street smarts IQ she is definitely that.
I think Donald Trump fits that category of above average intelligence and way above average Street smarts IQ
I took an online one but not sure it was accurate. I had to however have extra time beczuse of a condition I have which causes pretty bad brain fog, which is like trying to reason things out when feverish with flu- its kinda like whzt i would magine as trying to walk though waist high molasses. Anyways, I don’t call the results accurate- as it was pretty high- 142- however, if I’m even near. That, I would trade it in for a brain that is more “street smarts” than iq smarts- as I am about as handy as a football bat when it comes to anything really- mechanically I’m a dunce, and when it comes to maintaining say the home, I am equally dense. My brother on the other hand can fix anything, bui,d anything- which are qualities I would value for myself much higher than intellect.
I did breeze through school- never having to study until the night before- I have a partial photographic memory, znd can see the pages of what I read, paragraphs, sentences so recalling it and scoring well was easy and allowed me to get through school lazily. But again, I would much rather have struggled with Learning if it meant I could be useful beyond retaining and recalling mostly useless info. And now, the brain fog is so bad, I often have to,read things a few times to get the gist of what it says, and I soon forget- so now even that “skill” is quite diminished.
Nothing wrong with that at all- see my post above this one. I’d have given up a leg to be mechanically inclined, or to be able to do work as a carpenter or plumber or something useful. Having higher iq isn’t all its cracked up to be unless it can be put to good use, which it was not in my case. I’d trade it in a flash if I cou,d for skills and the street knowhow to be useful, needed.
If I may ask, which party do you believe cheated in 2024? Republicans or Democrats?
ELON NOT SMART?????
HOW off balance do you have to be to BADMOUTH A GUY WHO CAN PARALLEL PARK A ROCKET BOOSTER AFTER BRINGING IT BACK TO EARTH???
[[ 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]]
Same with me, though I didn’t end up in a ward somewhere- I wasted what God have gifted me. And now am laying a heavy price- for being “smart” I sure was dumb!
As a child, I read almost the whole collection of the Encyclopedia brittanica, and even a huge dictionary we had just to learn words that i didnt know- being ill as a child, I did a ton of reading. All that did for me bssical,y was fill my head with fairly useless facts and that no one really cared about lol. I suppose it might not have been useless had I been smart enough to put it all to use, but I didn’t, and looking back I wish I had been smarter in my Choices. Also read through an animal encyclopedic set, and to this day I’ll see some bizarre animal on TV, someone will ask “what is that? And without even thinking about it I’ll say “it’s a such and such- lives in the tropics, is endangered, and a favorite meal for a such and such” and so on.
As the old saying goes, I know a little bit about a lot of stuff, just enough to be either a nuisance or dangerous- the problem is that I never focused on anything in particular- had I done so I might made something of myself.
I know what you meant, FRiend. I put doctor in quotation marks.
“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.”
The first sign of intelligence is knowing intelligence cannot be accurately tested in the first place.
I was tested at 129 in my 20’s. I missed being gifted by 1 pt., but that’s not what bugs me most. I took some type of personality test at the same time and when the psychologist was interviewing me, he told me I had the most interesting personalty results he had ever seen, but he refused to tell me what that meant...lol I’ve wondered many times over the years. I’m definitely introverted and am pretty sure I have Aspergers.
One other thing about IQ tests. The more one is exposed to them, the better one can get in taking and achieving higher scores. Most folks in their everyday lives aren’t exposed to the pattern of test questions nor are they often tasked with the dimensional puzzles these tests offer. So yes, most people aren’t going to score very high, especially if the tests are time limited. Yet a detirmined learner can learn to fold 2 dmensional puzzles into 3 dimensional abstracts like those found in iq tests. Logical sequencing problems and word association tasks can be practised.
A lot of so called low iq people can improve their scores by practising the type of testing and thinking these tests try to measure. For many, it’s a matter of exposure to such puzzles and an interest in learning.
Ah, I missed your meaning.
Yup- most folks aren’t figuring out things like “John walks 10 miles north, then abruptly turns southeast and walks 3 miles before turning south to return home. How far does John have to walk to get back to point a?”
My answer was “he didn’t walk, he carjacked a vehicle and drove the rest of the way”
I did an “intelligence test” that cost $20 once... they sent me back $40 and a sympathy card”
Jesus — definitely the anti-establishment type, operating on much higher standards.
Which certainly follows after mercy — taking the time to care and evaluate circumstances, rather than the strict, lockstep judgment of religiously “following orders”.
Establishment Jesus is the fake Jesus that Jesus warned everyone about.
As in, it’s not Establishment boiler-plate hive-mentality consensus marching orders talking points memos when *we* do it:
Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Agreed. It’s probably why when people take IQ tests repeatedly, they tend to score in a range. There are so many variables that go into them. I tend to think of the number for as a “how many MHz” does your CPU have. But it doesn’t mean you’re running good code. If you don’t have that urge to constantly learn and improve, it’s just another number that is meaningless. I scored 151+ at age 7, but if I hadn’t continued feeding that brain of mine, and just sat on my laurels as I know so many of my “gifted” classmates did, it probably would decrease over time from disuse. It’s always been my belief that true intelligence requires active engagement.
Of course, there are downsides, such as when that brain just won’t stop go-go-going. I’ve begun practicing hypnosis to quiet things down at times. Though, from what I’ve doing some reading on, it seems that hypnosis improves hemispheric connectivity/communication. It actually improves neuroplasticity, and they are now researching it as a possible treatment to hold off age-related degradation. I’ve always been fascinated by the subject, as it a natural state, that not many folks manage to consciously harness.
“Oh well, as long as you have 90% accuracy,
the other 5% doesn’t matter.”
\sarc
His reason? Ok...he believes that the Jews are responsible for mass migration of darker skinned people to countries with majority white populations for the express purpose of mixing the bloodlines and dumbing them down to exert/maintain control of the masses.
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