Re: Question about IQ 166

I accept some of your info Phyllis, but, in giving this varnish to it, you
are an idiot! I am concerned that someone like her, is wasting her talents
in a career she is too good for. I only want to know if I am not overrating
her, as I dont understand pscyhometric tests well. If I am right, and that
she must be better than 166, I want to nudge her to something better for the
world. Now, can any one help me here?


"Phyllis Steen" <psteen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"el zorro" <zorrothefox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thx, DK. So what exactly is a genius-level IQ and a supergenius level IQ.
Note that I dont mean accomplishment like Goethe or Newton; I only mean
the
mental ability. How good is the girl, if we describe in qualitiative
terms?


"How good is the girl?" As a girl who qualifies well within the
perameters
you have set out, let me warn you that if we were in the same physical
surroundings, you would be severely bruised about the head and shoulders
before you could have finished that stupid damned sentence! She is as
"good" as you treat her. She needs love, support, warmth, approval,
friendship, and all of the other warm fuzzy things that every other human
being on the planet needs. And it is thinking LIKE THIS from males that
will make the rest of her life miserable trying to find them.

Now, with that vented, here are some interesting websites that may help
you
evaluate how much she's worth:
IQ scores and where they fall within the general population's intelligence
range varies from test score to test score. Here's a website that will
help
you figure all of that out.

High-IQ Societies and the Tests They Accept for Admission Purposes

http://www.polymath-systems.com/intel/hiqsocs/hiqsocs1.html



Here's an interesting website with probable IQs of those who are defined
as
"genius" by accomplishment. Guys like Goethe and Einstein. But let me
quickly add that a Noble Laureate in Medicine is quite proud of the fact
this he scores 115 on an IQ test. As I've said in another post, IQ scores
give NO POINTS for the answers you think of after the bell rings.

Estimated IQs of the Greatest Geniuses

http://hem.bredband.net/b153434/Index.htm

Around a decade ago, Schientific American published an interesting
quarterly
special issue on intelligence that is, unfortunately, no longer in print.
One of the things it explored was the bell curve of intelligence. Turns
out
that people with exceptional IQs, such as your friend, often do not have
advanced college degrees simply because we learn at a much faster rate
than
others and are much better at teaching ourselves than others are at
teaching
us.

Where math is concerned, the entire U.S. educational system is geared and
heavily biased toward the male. I grew up thinking I was bad at math
because I was kicked out of algebra class in the middle of the 8th grade
and
told I could NOT take another math class as long as I was a registered
student in that school district. A few decades later, I found myself in
circumstances where I played chess daily with a Nobel Laureate in Physics
from UC Berkely. When I made the passing remark that I would have loved
to
be a physicist or a cosmologist but was too bad at math, he fell off his
chair laughing! Wanted to know who had told me that? EVERY math teacher
I
had ever had in the California public school system! Your friend will
apporach math differently than you do. Also keep in mind that music and
fine art are both applied mathematics.

Another interesting aspect that was discussed in the no-longer-available
Scientific American special issue was brain size, and even more
interestingly, the intelligence of birds. "Bird brain" is NOT a
perjorative! African grey parrots are extremely intelligent! The overall
thing about brain size and architecture is that it is NOT size that
matters,
it's the wiring. However, there is scientific proof that Einstein's brain
is/was different from the norm in that he had/has extra tissue in the
temporal lobe area that *MAY* account for his giftedness in methematics.
But there is no hard evidence in that area. Yet.

For your friend's sake, I hope you find a nother quantitative hobby
instead
of her. She is not a bar of precious metal to be analyzed and assayed.
She's a real live people. Forget her IQ.

Phyllis




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