[azhenfud]

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?)

[headsonpikes]

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.

[rb22982]

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.

[rb22982]

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