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05 Apr 2009, 9:51 pm

What a coincidence! Her last name is Savant.



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05 Apr 2009, 10:35 pm

amazon_television wrote:
I'd rather be the most enlightened than the most intelligent.

Although my IQ is pretty high as is, I guess it's possible I take it for granted...


Same. Although it's hard to choose whether you would rather be the withholder of all the worlds knowledge or the maker of it.



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06 Apr 2009, 2:13 am

VMSnith wrote:
The highest IQ score in the world belongs to Marilyn Vos Savant in the US.

On the basis of this alone, she wrote a magazine column called Ask Marilyn, and a couple of books.

The books are awful - she embarasses herself with pedestrian conceptual blunders in fields where she is way out of her depth, like mathematics.

No notable accomplishments at all.


Thus it is for all of her much vaunted I.Q. She is a a purely conventional and derivative thinker but she can be so much faster than the average person.

That damned number causes many people to miss the point.

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06 Apr 2009, 2:57 am

High IQ's are overrated :idea:



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07 Apr 2009, 5:34 pm

What good is it to havea lot of knowledge (~IQ) but an inability to be able to effectively use it (wisdom)?

I was tested twice, as a kid and then when I was in the military. Both were very high, 144 and 162. Although according to this, I am some sort of genius... There are some things I do not understand and can not get yet my 14 year old understands...

For example; Grammar, I still have difficulty with this... When I started college, my skills in grammar was ~8th grade, my writing ability was not good at all. 6 years of college has improved my writing abilities termendously yet I am still aweful with grammar and communications with the english language. I learned all sorts of things about grammer (knowledge) yet I do not know how to use it (wisdom).

My summary is that a high IQ is irrelevent and overrated in measuring the intellect of an individual. Knowledge is a part of the bigger picture.



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07 Apr 2009, 7:25 pm

IQ is just a measurement of how much you are capable of mentally based on what you know and how you think. Because of certain biases it is very unreliable in determining someones true intelligence. A person with 60 IQ could be bound with knowledge and have a photographic memory, on the other hand, a person with 180 IQ could be as dumb as a mop, IQ is no measurement of knowledge or wisdom.

Intellect needs to be measured from everything, not just IQ.