Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:40:44 01/08/02
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On January 07, 2002 at 21:22:01, Albert Silver wrote: >On January 07, 2002 at 20:52:43, K. Burcham wrote: > >> >> >>our local sunday paper has a regular column with write in problems. >>this column is by marylin von sant(spelling?). supposedly she has the highest >>female iq in the world. > >Highest IQ period unless there is some new record holder. I've read her column a >few times in the Capital Times, or whatever Wisconsin paper carries it. I >forget. She may be gazillions better in math, and may know all the dictionaries >backwards and forth, but I was extremely unimpressed I must say. She signs with >Vos Sant, though whether it is due to foreign lineage or as a contrived joke >(Vos does not exist in the English language) is hard to say. In one article she >commented she used to hardly ever vote concluding that her single vote was >meaningless and ineffectual so why bother? Super IQ at work there. But the real >question that never ceased to nag me was what on earth was the world's highest >measured IQ doing writing a weekly trivia column for a local midwest paper? It >_really_ makes one wonder. > Her column is in Parade magazine, which is syndicated to many, many newspapers in the US (and maybe in other countries). Her husband is Jarvik, the inventor of the "original" artificial heart. As far as I know, vos Savant is really her last name. But I could be wrong, as it does kind of sound like a joke.
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