TLPG wrote:
Isotropic, I heard Einstein's IQ was 200 - not 160.
And I query your stats on 1/1000 people have an IQ of more than 150. I especially query your 1/100 stat on the 130!
Yeah the 1/100 is wrong on the 130 (132 is 1/50, which is Mensa Qualified) but my stat for 160 being 1/30,000 is correct.
so between 132 (1/50) to 160 (1/30,000) there is genius somewhere there
I don't think genius is rarer than 1/100 I just think it requires more than IQ to be an intellectual heavyweight in the way Mozart or Einstein were considered genius..... that requires hard hard work and the right enviroment to!.
IQ is just a good way of going "Hey you with an IQ 147, go and f*****g work hard because you might, just might turn out to be like einstein)"
The IQ on Einstein is speculation..... but 160 is the figure i hear quoted around most often in cognitive science, i don't know what the source is.
I don't think the thoughts that "found" General Relativity
sure they are probably the pinacle of a spacialtemporal mode of thought engaging is synthesis, but there are many other facets of intelligence, and I think that einstein probably Isn't the smartest person to have ever lived. Poincare might be.....