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Here was a woman smarter than Einstein and Hawking Oh hell no. She just tests well. The best candidate for "highest g-factor in the history of time" is proba

by Eliezer 18y ago

Here was a woman smarter than Einstein and Hawking Oh hell no. She just tests well. The best candidate for "highest g-factor in the history of time" is probably John von Neumann.

tokenadult 18y ago
"In 1985, Guinness World Records accepted that she had answered every question correctly on an adult Stanford-Binet IQ test at the age of just 10, a result that gave her a corresponding mental age of 22 years and 11 months, and an unearthly IQ of 228." This is totally bogus, because the Stanford-Binet Form L-M, an IQ test I also took as a child, was never, ever normed on a sample of adults. Not once, not ever. The L-M is strictly a child IQ test, and poorly normed for children also. The names in the test scoring manual for mental age levels (X number of years plus Y level of months) were GUESSES, and it is plain that they are guesses set in such a manner that they grossly overestimate the IQ scores of many L-M test-takers (yes, possibly including me). In any event, the L-M is now obsolete. The Stanford-Binet L-M was reviewed in the Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook, a standard reference book available in most university libraries and in better-stocked public libraries. volume 7. A citation to the Buros review can be found in a compilation volume about mental tests (Keyser & Sweetland 1984). A complete reprint of that review can be found in the one-volume compilation by Buros (1975). David Freides (1970), then associate professor and now professor of psychology at Emory University, began his review by saying, "My comments in 1970 are not very different from those made by F. L. Wells 32 years ago in The 1938 Mental Measurements Yearbook. The Binet scales have been around for a long time and their faults are well known." Professor Freides continued with a critique of the assumptions underlying the design of the test, and specifically mentioned clinical situations in which SB L-M scores should not be taken at face value. He concluded his review with the Latin phrase "Requiescat in pace," indicating he thought the test was moribund in 1970.

by Eliezer 18y ago

Here was a woman smarter than Einstein and Hawking Oh hell no. She just tests well. The best candidate for "highest g-factor in the history of time" is probably John von Neumann.

tokenadult 18y ago

"In 1985, Guinness World Records accepted that she had answered every question correctly on an adult Stanford-Binet IQ test at the age of just 10, a result that gave her a corresponding mental age of 22 years and 11 months, and an unearthly IQ of 228." This is totally bogus, because the Stanford-Binet Form L-M, an IQ test I also took as a child, was never, ever normed on a sample of adults. Not once, not ever. The L-M is strictly a child IQ test, and poorly normed for children also. The names in the test scoring manual for mental age levels (X number of years plus Y level of months) were GUESSES, and it is plain that they are guesses set in such a manner that they grossly overestimate the IQ scores of many L-M test-takers (yes, possibly including me). In any event, the L-M is now obsolete. The Stanford-Binet L-M was reviewed in the Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook, a standard reference book available in most university libraries and in better-stocked public libraries. volume 7. A citation to the Buros review can be found in a compilation volume about mental tests (Keyser & Sweetland 1984). A complete reprint of that review can be found in the one-volume compilation by Buros (1975). David Freides (1970), then associate professor and now professor of psychology at Emory University, began his review by saying, "My comments in 1970 are not very different from those made by F. L. Wells 32 years ago in The 1938 Mental Measurements Yearbook. The Binet scales have been around for a long time and their faults are well known." Professor Freides continued with a critique of the assumptions underlying the design of the test, and specifically mentioned clinical situations in which SB L-M scores should not be taken at face value. He concluded his review with the Latin phrase "Requiescat in pace," indicating he thought the test was moribund in 1970.