Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:35:09 01/08/02
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On January 08, 2002 at 17:40:44, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On January 07, 2002 at 21:22:01, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On January 07, 2002 at 20:52:43, K. Burcham wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>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).
:-) Ok, it's a well-paid trivia column, so what? It's still tragically
unimpressive. IIRC Guinness had her listed as having a 230 IQ. The intelligence
of one in a billion or so, and therefore capable of one-in-a-billion
contributions. I really wouldn't be so harsh if it were just less that
Einsteinish; yet merely running a trivia column indicates an abysmal disrespect
for her singular gift. I can never subscribe to that. It's practically criminal.
What's next? A best-seller with the best of the World's Highest IQ's trivia
columns?? My disdain would know no limits.
Albert
>
>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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