The highest IQs ever recorded are between 200 and 250 IQs – but what exactly does that mean? Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is used to measure a person’s level of intelligence. Scores are obtained by having participants complete standardized tests that measure puzzle-solving skills, memory and more, according to Aleph News, citing the BBC.
Based on a median score that is usually around 100, the given IQ score is relative to the general intelligence of the population. Below 85 is considered a poor score, and above 130 is considered intelligent (in the top 2% of the population).
It is difficult to accurately assess intelligence, and it is always worth considering IQ scores with caution due to cultural differences and other factors. As a study published in Frontiers In Systems Neuroscience states, “intelligence test scores are often misunderstood and can be misused.”
Terence Tao currently has the highest IQ in the world, with an impressive score somewhere between 225-230. If UCLA’s youngest tenured professor scored the suspected 230, he’s definitely at the top of the rankings.
Dubbed the “Mozart of Mathematics,” Tao studied calculus at the university level when he was just nine years old and began his PhD at Princeton at 16. He has currently published 17 books, over 300 research papers, and served on Joe Biden’s 2021 Presidential Council of Science and Technology Advisors.
However, Marilyn vos Savant is tied for the title. Her Guinness World Records IQ was 228, and it was repeated as the highest globally in every edition published between 1986-1989.
Since 1986, Marilyn has used her incredible intellect to write Parade’s famous “Ask Marilyn” column, in which readers ask questions of the woman with “the highest recorded IQ in the world.”
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However, vos Savant was not always as accepted by her peers as her high-IQ male counterpart. Unfortunately, she found herself at the center of an academic scandal when a reader asked her to solve the popular probability dilemma, the Monty Hall problem.
Although Marilyn’s answer to the reader turned out to be correct in the end, the magazine received over 10,000 angry letters from disgruntled mathematicians of the time telling her she was wrong.
(source: AFP)
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