To: rb22982
I stand corrected. Thank you.
Maybe I should have said "reportedly" since I actually hadn't witnessed a test nor had I actually seen the "official" results. I presume my friend innocent of lying until he gives reasons otherwise.
Yet the kid's a "genius" and has acquired a full college scholarship.
Of IQ's, mine is 132, so I don't know which "scale" is being used that you derive those percentile figures, neither can I effectively contest the numbers you present. I certainly don't consider myself "top 2.5%" - only average. The Shipley test is the one to which I am referring...
Regards,
Az
(PS - Do Democrats have different grading methods than Republicans or do they interpret the numbers differently?)
To: azhenfud; rb22982
An IQ of 180+ is uncommon, but not rare. IIRC, that's about the 5 S.D. point, which would mean that the approximate percentage of the population above that level would be .02.
That's not much, but it includes over 50,000 Americans.
To: azhenfud
182 is definately possible, it's just very uncommon. The highest I've heard of was like 208 from some doctor in Sweden I think. I have had IQ test ranging from 130 to 145. Of course IQ just measures your ability to learn info, doesn't necessarily show that you have achieved anything.
199 posted on
08/07/2002 1:38:30 PM PDT by
rb22982
To: azhenfud; headsonpikes
If your friend took the Stanford-Binet (16 is the standard Dev) test, he's in the top 99.9999850966092% of the population and if you do the math, that means he's one of only a few hundred people in the US with an IQ that high.
I got my calculations from the bottom of this page
Very smart cookie indeed
223 posted on
08/07/2002 5:03:21 PM PDT by
rb22982
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