In my case, I heard about a man with an IQ of 350+, but for some reason he left the country in an unknown direction with his wife and children. Lived like an ordinary person, did not stand out in any way, worked at an ordinary job, I don’t remember which one, but definitely not a teacher, It was a manual profession.
I went to the University of Chicago for undergrad, and took classes in the math department. So, yes.
I know my friend, Sam. He has an IQ of 120 :)
He’s a really nice guy and gives the best advice.
I have a cousin who scored in the 130s when she was younger. She also has autism with an unbelievable ability to learn/remember. She spends 90% of her time with animals. Ask her anything about literally any animal and she can talk for hours in such depth its like she’s reading straight from a book. Doesn’t understand when not to talk though. Has led to many semi awkward holiday dinners when she starts talking about the animals we are eating.
As a lab animal, I’m grateful for the work she does.
IQ tests are pseudoscientific B.S.
They don’t measure intelligence; they measure your skill at taking IQ tests.
IQ tests are pretty meaningless. They were designed for and by the white middle upper class, and you can study for them. Behind the Bastards is doing a series on H. L. Hunt. He became the richest oil tycoon in the world in part thanks to his photographic memory and in part thanks to his gambling addiction.
Fact check: highest IQ recorded is 200-250.
To answer your question: Uncle in law was close to the stereotype of a absent minded professor.
I don’t think you met a genius. I think you met a liar.
Most IQ tests cap out around 160.
Only geniuses understand that the test results are cumulative.
As others have said IQ tests are more about socio-economic factors than brain power.
Maybe this is what you’re looking for.
I live in the US. the “traditional” age most get a bachelor’s degree is at age 22. Though that is just not the case really, but that is another discussion.
I have met two people who got bachelor’s degrees prior to turning 18. Both were women. One got her degree at 16 and the other at 18.
Both are wickedly intelligent, they are geniuses and think of things that just blow my mind. They make connections on things that make my head spin. I really enjoy talking to both, though I have to admit they are just on another plane of thinking.
The thing that surprised me the most, about the one I have interacted with the most, is that she is a well rounded and a totally normal 20 something year old person. I only found out about her mind and history as I asked her if she was in undergrad. I was talking to her and her mom, and her mom chuckled and told me when her daughter graduated so naturally I was interested.
Here is the thing. For both of them their situation kind of sucked. When you were 12 years old where you hanging around a bunch of college kids? Nope
When you are 16 you should be with your peers and hanging out doing teenager stuff. College kids are past that and they both never really did high school.
Also letting a 14 year old wander freely on a college campus is not advisable. So they missed on typically high school things.
I asked them why they went to undergrad so early and it was because they were failing our of high school as they were totally bored with what was “see spot run” stuff to them.
Read Douglas Hofstadter’s book “Godel Escher Bach” & be stunned at what high-intelligence can do…
Him discussing anything with me would be like me trying to have intelligent-discussion with a waterlogged & frozen tree-stump.
after understanding that finally I understood why they like MENSA, to find others to discuss-at-their-level-with.
( after my 2nd brain-injury, I was measured to qualify for them, but after my 3rd brain-injury, I can’t imagine being quick-enough to qualify for them, & don’t like exclusive-clubs anyways, as they nearly-always turn into class-based-validity clubs.
Brain-injury’s taught me things that high-IQ wouldn’t have, though, so that’s cool. )
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I was a member of Mensa for a few years, tbh most of the active members are insufferable.
The problem with MENSA is that you’re dealing with intelligent people who have no better claim to intelligence than being in MENSA.
I’ve met quite a few. The most intelligent well rounded people didn’t stand out at all. The ones that stood out the most were those that excelled in specific areas and pretended to be great at everything else too and ironically made them look less intelligent that what they really were.
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We still don’t have a working definition of what “intelligence” means. That tells you everything you need to know about intelligence tests.
I’m a fucking idiot, so to me everyone is super intelligent.
No IQ test is going to measure that high. A lot of the tests, while not perfect, are designed to target within 2-3 statistical deviations around the average intelligence, with a typical standard deviation of 15 points. So, if anyone tests above 145 or under 55, the test is going to be inaccurate. At that point, you’re only dealing with 0.1% of the population and the number is just a pissing match.
That said, just because someone has a high IQ score doesn’t mean they’re great at everything else. Autism seems to run higher in this group than average, but it is likely because some parts of the spectrum of autism helps with taking these sorts of tests. Very smart people can still make mistakes, be ignorant of certain subjects, and have personality flaws like average people.
For instance, medical doctors are generally considered very intelligent, but they are very bad with money.
