Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 20:30:17 01/08/02
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On January 08, 2002 at 20:44:30, James T. Walker wrote: >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) There were some estimations and at a level of genius were/are J.F. Kennedy, J. Carter and W. Clinton. I do not how reliable those estimations are, but in the case of Clinton I would believe it after I read an article ~2 years ago by G.Garcia Marquez (Noble Prize of Literature, probably one of the best writers of the XX century) that met Clinton personally. Regards, Miguel >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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