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The genius accepted by Mensa aged just 3 after IQ of 140 equals Bill Clinton
Daily Mail ^
| 2/17/10
| Liz Hull
Posted on 02/17/2010 8:52:38 PM PST by Nachum
Most three-year-olds are fascinated by cars and trucks.
But few can read and remember their number plates like William Potter does.
He can also name most towns and cities in the British Isles - and has just become one of the youngest people ever accepted as a member of Mensa.
With an IQ of 140, his intelligence is said to be on a par with that of Bill Clinton and, apparently, Napoleon Bonaparte.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: accepted; genius; iq; mensa
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
I read that stormin’ Norman was around 180.
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:16:56 PM PST
by
greeneyes
(Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
To: Nachum
Other than the puff pieces from the usual media flacks, there is no reason to believe that Clinton’s IQ is 140. Someone that intelligent would be able to write better than he can. The Rhodes Scholarship, BTW, is not awarded on the basis of exceptional academic talent or achievement, as most people seem to think.
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:17:06 PM PST
by
achilles2000
(Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
To: Paladin2
“So, what is that Genius Zer0s IQ? H!s?”
Why do you think so many call him ‘Zero’?
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:17:15 PM PST
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
To: Nachum
Well that is an awful comparison.
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:18:24 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: calex59
I agree, this is stupid. I have an IQ just above grape, but common sense is off the scale.
But being clinically stupid (like most politicians) the norm has been achieved.
Never forget Billy boy remains the second president to be impeached.
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:18:50 PM PST
by
SERE_DOC
(My Rice Krispies told me to stay home & clean my weapons! How does one clean a phase 4 plasma rifle)
To: Jolla
I for one think Attila the Hun, Ivan the Terrible, and Alexander the Great were pretty friggin' cruel-er-cool. Of course, no one is alive who remember what nasty individuals they were. With WWII, you have oodles of photographs of mounds of dead jews. With much older wars, you have lots of contrived paintings of great victories perhaps with an occasional, less inspiring painting like this one:
But in general, going back over a couple generations, we don't get worked up about people who died unnaturally or caused other people's deaths ...unless it's part of some religious belief or helps to support some political agenda. And that's a fairly rational approach to the issue really.
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:19:02 PM PST
by
dr_who
To: calex59
Mine is also decent but possessive pronouns under the influence will kick my butt.(thanks for your discretion) :^)
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:19:35 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: SERE_DOC
Politicians aren’t all clinically stupid. A large number of them are really good con men and sociopaths like Bill Clinton.
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:20:33 PM PST
by
dr_who
To: Nachum
LOL! Clinton didn’t have a 140 IQ.
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:20:35 PM PST
by
Dragonspirit
(Always remember President Token won only by defecting on his CFR pledge.)
To: Nachum
But the kid could still be too stupid to know what the meaning of “is” is.
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:21:21 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Nachum
The Marxists always claim to have a high IQ
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:24:21 PM PST
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
To: J Edgar
I thought it strange that they mention the calculator as if it shows proof of his superior intellect. They should buy the child an abacus.
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:24:28 PM PST
by
Razz Barry
(Round'em up, send'em home.)
To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
Have a brother that belongs to Mensa. But tends to be a major pessimist.........
His bottle is always half empty.........mine is half full.
To: Nachum
This is a great opportunity for the disfunctional to post their alleged IQs.
To: outhousepatrol
The definition of an optimist is “a pessimist in training”.
To: HospiceNurse
760 here.....Oh wait.....!
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:27:16 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: Nachum
"But few can read and remember their number plates like William Potter does. "Can one of the many geniuses on this thread tell me what a "number plate" is? Also, while I'm asking, why are so many geniuses born in August?
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posted on
02/17/2010 9:32:55 PM PST
by
matthew fuller
(Has the goracle seen his shadow yet?)
To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
“Why do you think so many call him Zero?”
Per Wikipedia: Barack Obama has not released transcripts for his grades from Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law. He has also not released his SAT and LSAT scores. No explanation has been offered for not releasing them.
GPA= 0.0
To: Nachum
First of all, IQ is not a static quality. It is, by definition, your
intelligence quotient. Quotient means it is determined by division (specifically, for many IQ tests, the number of questions you can answer correctly divided by the number of questions the average person
your age answers correctly. Note the "your age" portion of that. This means that early-developing children often have a high IQ... until the other kids catch up to them developmentally. So only the very uninformed would look at a three year-old's IQ score and assume it means
anything about that child's future intelligence.
Second of all, anyone who brags about IQ scores above 135 doesn't know what they are talking about. Standard IQ tests don't measure with any accuracy over about 130-135 (at that point the test is not statistically valid). In any case, IQ scores cannot be compared numerically in the first place. They are compared based on standard deviations from the mean. At 100, fifteen points is about one standard deviation. So you could say that, in general, we could expect a person with an IQ 120 to be "smarter" (depending on your definition) than a person with a 100 (as they are separated by a standard deviation). As the test exceeds 130-135, the standard deviation becomes statistically undefinable enough that we can't actually say anything about a score of 148 compared to a 175... the tests just don't measure those scores accurately enough.
So, quite frankly, anyone who knows what they are talking about would refer to their IQ scores as normal/one or two standard deviations above the mean/beyond two standard deviations from the mean/ etc. Quotations of extravagant numbers are worthless (and a bit sad, really)...
To: Nachum
Bill Clinton a Genius?
Devious, yes, a genius, no!
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