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I've never met a math/physics/eng faculty member with an IQ below 120 (though mine is below 100). Yummy, you have to be kidding us. Either that, or you were d
by aswanson 18y ago
I've never met a math/physics/eng faculty member with an IQ below 120 (though mine is below 100).
Yummy, you have to be kidding us. Either that, or you were drunk when you took the test, or we really need to rethink what the tests are measuring. There is no way somebody with subnormal intelligence is involved in exchanges like this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216701 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216701
- DaniFong 18y agoApparently someone decided the score a bunch of the Caltech faculty on an IQ test, and a surprising number of them turned up with scores < 100. This doesn't prove that the concept is untenable, but clearly some of our tests are missing things.
- rms 18y agoThat's interesting... any source?
- DaniFong 18y agoI'm afraid not -- it was just an anecdote circulating around the astro department at Princeton. Feynman was known to have an IQ of 125, and I met a grad student there who admitted to an IQ of around 80 -- a perfectly bright person, to be sure. Again, I don't have the ability to prove these things to you, but I think we should recognize that, occasionally, our methods for measuring intelligence are very very broken.
- tigerthink 18y ago>Feynman was known to have an IQ of 125 That's still more than 1.5 standard deviations above average. If Feynman's IQ was exactly 125, he would be ahead of "only" 95% of the population.