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[geaaronson]

John in Maine

no way. The highest recorded IQ is Marily Von Savant, the woman who does the newspaper column and her iq is 212. Goethes IQ was 180, Assimov`s 190. You are talking about people with IQ`s one out of 1 plus million at those levels.


my take is that bills IQ is about 140-45. He writes in his autobiography that there was a kid in his high school math class that came up with a different way of calculating the answer to a particularly difficult trig exercise some time before he did. The likelihood of the two of them having outstanding IQs in the same high school class is highly unlikely.

Also he writes and implies that Hillaries intellect was superior to his own. Remember the two were law students together at Yale Law. He attributes rather coyly her superior intellect to her ability to study better while he was off at the same time socializing with his friends.

My guess is that Bush no. 2's IQ is about 100-110, very normal and inadequate for leadership of the free world. Reagan`s IQ I would put at about 120-25, Mondales at 135-145, Dukakkis at 145-55, McKain at 135-45 and Bloomberg at 170.

I am usually pretty good at guessing peoples IQ`s and have occasionally done it as a joke with friends and acquaintances. The last time I did it I did it, I guessed 13 points off. Her IQ was actually 168. She also had the highest grade of all her fellow students in the PHD program of the systems analyst program at Georgia Tech.

At about 153, the Iq of a friend of mine in undergraduate school, there was no need to even open up the math book until the week before the exam.

[john_n_carolina]

...then, who's is higher??

Cindy Crawford
Kareem Abdul Jabaar
lead singer from Offspring
Courtney Love
Brian May of Queen
Sylvester Stallone

[MixtecaMike]

[john_n_carolina]

??

International High IQ Society
http://www.highiqsociety.org/about_us/

Entrance to "High IQ" societies
http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/criteria.aspx

actually, the word "high" is used as "highly gifted", "high IQ", "highly intelligent" , etc etc

p.s. i forgot to put Madonna on the list....i'll give that one away, her's is 154....

[MixtecaMike]

[Guy Courchesne]

His answer to the question on central americans isn't surprising. The reality is that Mexico does need the income from its workers in the US and anyone coming up from further south are in competition with Mexico. I didn't see the interview, but was any mention made of Plan Puebla-Panama? Under Fox, a lot of money has gone into the initiative to develop the region's infrastructure, include ports and transportation. Haven't heard much about it lately though.

[john_n_carolina]

i figured there was a 'spark' of humor there

it's a tie :

Courtney (supposedly) was tested when she was 16, and tested at 160. her mom was tested at 150, and her dad at 131. her dad says he has a photographic memory, and so does Courtney.

Sylvester Stallone (supposedly) recently took the test and came out with 160.

the others?
Cindy Crawford - 140, valedictorian, 4.0GPA, full scholarship to NWestern
Offspring singer - 152, Almost finished Phd in molecular biology, 4.0 GPA, valadictorian

Abdul Jabaar - tested 145 when he was recruited for the Army
Brian May of Queen - has Phd in Physics, President of Liverpool College

** Note ** I just saw another article about the drummer from Rush, Neil Peart? supposedly (officially?) has been tested at 150

[gypsygirl1475]

Read an article years ago stating that 25% of all highschool drop outs have an average IQ of 180 or higher. The article was stating that these kids were not challenged enough to keep there interest prolonged to finishing school. Just because someone doesn't have a degree or finish school doesn't mean one has a low IQ. Just thought I would add my 2 cents. Oh, and Albert Einstein(Think I spelled this right) couldn't even tie his shoe laces.

[Phil_K]

[MixtecaMike]

[GueroPaz]

Of course there are lots of centroamericanos in southern Chiapas, as there are illegal mexicanos in southernmost Texas, lowering the wage levels for unskilled labor. But do you see many centroamericanos in central or northern Mexico?