Author: James T. Walker
Date: 17:44:30 01/08/02
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On January 08, 2002 at 20:35:09, Albert Silver wrote:
>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:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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
>
You shoud check out the MENSA club sometime. They are supposed to all be in the
top 5% or something like that. Some are janitors, plumbers,mechanics, school
teachers. Very ordinary types. IQ does not mean a person has high
aspirations/drive to become something big or accomplish something special. In
the business world I suspect high IQ is rarely at the top. I'm sure it's not in
Government (Especially the US Government)
Jim
>>
>>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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