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They said it was 220 or so (my dad's.) He didn't graduate school at 12 or anything. He was in college at 16. At 18 he volunteered to go kill krauts in WW2. Came back a coupla years later. He worked in research labs. His specialty was navigational systems. He worked on AWACS and later on the space shuttle. But he had real poor health, heart attacks, bad temper, and some other failing character traits that made it uphill all the way. Never owned a home. Never got money saved.

As for me, I didn't inherit much to speak of. No college for me. But I learned from his mistakes. Hopefully I have a 200 common sense IQ.

Wow dude, that is a fascinating story. It really resonates with me. See today neurologists could have told your Dad that often this sort of superpowered intellect is accompanied by extraordinary emotional and mental sensitivity, so often the genius feels life's pain so much he can't cope with it.

Sounds like romantic nonsense, but there is hardcore evidence for it. Rapid and constant use of the intellect for many people becomes a sort of drug-like high, an addiction. This burns out your supplies of neurotrnasmitters (serotonin, dopamine, acetylcholine etc) and puts the body under chronic high stress. Also found is cingulate inflammation in the brain and limbic hyperactivity leading to a host of neuroses and even psychoses.

Ever find after using your brain too much, like rapidly reading large technical books or philosophical works one after the other, you feel weird, compulsive and unfocussed? People with super-hi IQs do it all the time unless they learn not to and focus on one thing at a time.

The kid in the article seems to have got it down fine.

Hopefully I have a 200 common sense IQ.

Trust me when I say that that can carry you a lot further than the 200IQ. I've seen a lot of people who don't have common sense, and they're part of the world's problems, not the solutions.