Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 22:03:18 12/23/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 19:34:42, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On December 22, 1999 at 17:46:17, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: > >> >>> >>>If my memory serves me well, Einstein was IQ 205.... >>>Another historical IQ according to some studies: >>>Napoleon: 140 >>>Goethe: 180 >>>Washington: 145 >>>Darwin: 135 !!!! (high but less than some people here...) >> >>This sure is funny, but having an IQ >50 I don't believe that you can deduce >>someone's IQ post mortem. >> >>--Georg > >Not me, either, if "deduction" is the word, but those studies are not just crap. >They examined what those people did at this and that age, etc. Of course the >number should be very aproximative. The case of Darwin is interesting because >even if he was not "bright" as other people, he was bright enough to get great >results with the most important thing to get results given some intelligence: >incredible perseverance and effort. >fernando The studies are amusing (and my recollection of the results is somewhat different, not that it matters), but really not much more. This is particularly true as measurements over, say, 140 are really not much more than guesses. The same applies, of course, to measurements under 60, which may make this statement a bit more understandable: it is not easier to calculate extreme ability with any reliability than extreme deficiency. Ask any psychologist (and not just a former student thereof like me). Charley
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