The highest IQ level is for an Australian mathematician, the author of the Green-Tao theorem, his name is Terence Tao. Getting results above 200 points is a very rare occurrence, because most of the inhabitants of our planet barely score 100 points. People with extremely high IQs (over 150) can be found among Nobel laureates. It is these people who move science forward and make discoveries in various professional fields. Among them are the American writer Marilyn vos Savant, astrophysicist Christopher Hirata, phenomenal reader Kim Pik, who can read a page of text in a few seconds, Briton Daniel Tammet, who memorizes thousands of numbers, Kim Ung-Yong, who already studied at the university at the age of 3, and other famous personalities with amazing abilities.
How is a person's IQ formed?
IQ level is influenced by several factors, including heredity, environment (family, school, social status of a person). The test result is also significantly influenced by the age of the test taker. At the age of 26, as a rule, a person’s intelligence reaches its peak, and then only declines.
It is worth noting that some people with exceptionally high IQs found themselves completely helpless in everyday life. For example, Kim Pik could not fasten the buttons on his clothes. Moreover, not everyone had such talent from birth. Daniel Tammet gained his ability to remember huge numbers of numbers after a terrible attack of epilepsy as a child.
Meaning of the word intelligence
Examples of the use of the word intelligence in literature.
We believe that concentration on this center and its subsequent activation can develop intuition, since it is the center for the integration of all cerebral activity, and not just the cerebral cortex - the center of intelligence.
Only the grim determination of Meina Gladstone and a dozen of her supporters in the Senate allowed the war to continue, despite the enormous losses, although billions of votes of the Althing and the Advisory Council of Artificial Intelligences demanded an immediate withdrawal of troops.
The main thing is different: in this case, all homophenomena can be represented as narrow local breakthroughs of the barrage, a radial exit of intelligence from the working zone to the reserve one.
Likewise, he subsequently appreciated Beatrix's personal qualities, which showed him clearly that the beauty and intelligence that Aphra possessed were not everything.
Akhmet, having apparently stepped over himself, rejecting the memory of the past, his brilliant education, talent and intellect, recognized the primacy of Beslan. Beslan, without turning a blind eye to his brother’s weaknesses, closed the way into his heart to the irritation, and sometimes anger, that was boiling in his chest after another trick by Akhmet.
But the intellect has the advantage over them that it can abstract from its activity, move away from it in order to impartially study and understand it, analyze its processes and identify principles.
Experiments conducted by Professor Bruner in America showed that the degree of external influence of the environment in which a small child finds himself has a significant impact on the development of children's intelligence.
An artist of great and original talent and deep intellect, Weinberg amazes with the diversity of his creative interests.
And when she left Weil, he - weak, mocking - could not resist the heights of idealism and slipped into the barren sands of Ecclesiastes, which lurk in every Jewish intellect and are always ready to suck it in.
Only sexual issues contained difficulties, and even then not as serious as he imagined, and the rest - intellectually stimulating discussions, changes in surroundings, mutual influence of personalities - somehow very quickly became unimportant.
Moreover, we are observing increasing variability, a gradual lengthening of the period of growing up and, most importantly, a steady reduction in the motivational role of reflexes, hormones and instincts, and their gradual replacement by the factor of intelligence and social determinants.
The Asuric or even Rakshasic character of the recent world conflict is explained by this terrible combination of a misdirected vitalistic driving force with the great power of the intellect placed at its service, using subtle logic as its tool and the spirit of perfect materialistic Science as its genie, the powerful creator of the great, tangible and soulless miracles.
Third, mindfulness exercises tend to look intellectually stupid.
The original reason for collective Intelligence lies in the dynamics of matter in the gravitational waves of the Universe and its interaction with the gravitational waves of neighboring Universes.
Asda tries to explain, but, far from technology, it does it so incomprehensibly that in my imagination there appears a shapeless pile of microcircuits, waveguides, stepper motors, in a word, a distant resemblance to a robot, and not an electronic embodiment of human intelligence.
Source: Maxim Moshkov library
IQ from 131 to 140
People with an IQ of 140-131 make up about 3% of the population. Their abilities are far above average. Whatever field of activity they choose, they can achieve the highest results, because they have not only high mental, but also creative abilities. Such people make excellent managers, researchers, and scientists. At the same time, they are well versed not only in their profession, but also have a broad outlook and knowledge in other areas, which they can apply to achieve success in their field.
Such people constantly monitor new inventions and discoveries and immediately find use for them to optimize their own life and work. If they need to completely change their line of work, they can quickly achieve good results in a business that they have never done before. A striking example of such a person is Arnold Schwarzenegger, who in the first half of his life became one of the most titled athletes and a successful film actor, and in the second half achieved good results in politics as the governor of California.
IQ level above 140
People with an IQ of 145 or higher make up no more than 0.2% of the world's population. These are the people who are classified as geniuses who have a powerful analytical mind combined with creative abilities that allow them to simultaneously analyze dozens of factors and make long-term forecasts, determine the path of development of science on a global scale, generate new ideas, develop new theories, propose non-standard solutions, determine new directions of human movement, make scientific and technical discoveries.
The most prominent representatives of this group of scientists and thinkers included Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking. Most Nobel Prize laureates who have made scientific discoveries have an IQ above 150. However, even among ordinary people, including children, sometimes there are unique ones who have superpowers and show test results approaching 200 points.
Thinking and intelligence: what do they have in common?
In psychology, intelligence and thinking are similar processes of mental activity.
Thinking - a tendency to analyze, build logical conclusions, the ability to draw logical conclusions based on acquired knowledge. Intelligence is the ability to implement acquired knowledge, supported by rational actions. Reading several books and various encyclopedias does not indicate the presence of high intelligence, since it is necessary to correctly apply the information received in practice.
What is an IQ test?
The Eysenck IQ test includes forty tasks, which take thirty minutes to complete. If while completing a task you are unable to understand the essence of the question, then you should not dwell on it for long. You may be on the wrong path to an answer and waste your time. Hurry up to find the answer to the next question.
However, it is worth knowing that most tasks are quite solvable and you should not give up quickly. You need to show patience and ingenuity to successfully complete the task. Keep in mind that the tasks only become more difficult towards the end of the test. The vast majority of people will answer some of the questions, but no one can solve all forty problems correctly in thirty minutes.
The answer to the task is a word, a number or one letter. In some cases, you need to come up with a solution yourself. You should not write the answer to an unsolved problem at random, but if you have some assumptions, then it is better to answer the question.
Most ordinary people have an intelligence level in the range of 100-120 points.
If you score more than 130 points, you can call yourself smart, and if you score more than 150, feel free to consider yourself a genius. However, do not forget that such a test is aimed at identifying the level of preparation for solving logical problems, but it will not show your intelligence. However, after passing the test, the result will appear on your screen in the form of a unique link that you can share with friends, paste into your blog, or send to your employer.
Is high IQ important?
There are several organizations that bring together people with extremely high IQs. Mensa International will accept those who score higher than 98% of the population (that is, two out of a hundred people). Although you will still need to take not a standard IQ test, but a specially revised one. The Prometheus Society is much stricter: their tests are designed so that only one person in 30 thousand can pass them. The organization is growing very slowly: in 2013 it had only about 130 members.
The Mensa website allows you to take part in an intellectual exercise - take a test of 30 questions in an hour. This is not a traditional IQ test or a Mensa admissions test. You are warned that the test is created for entertainment purposes only, but is based on the same questions and techniques for assessing intelligence as the real Mensa exam, which is not publicly available. Many tasks are reminiscent of the Eysenck test, but at the end they will describe in detail how to solve the questions and the most common mistakes you made. Members of Mensa and Prometheus do not have any extraordinary achievements. 68-year-old American journalist Marilyn vos Savant, a member of Prometheus and the Guinness World Records holder for IQ scores from 1986 to 1989, writes a column for Parade magazine, solves logical paradoxes, has published several books and written several plays. But you might not have heard of her at all, although according to the test results she is the most outstanding woman in history. The last Guinness World Record holder, Korean Kim Un-young, quickly mastered mathematics and foreign languages, solved speed problems on local television programs, but by the time he was 51, he also had not achieved anything truly significant. In 1990, the Guinness Book of Records stopped including IQ champions in its publications altogether, explaining that there were too many tests, they all gave different results and it was impossible to determine the winner.
While it's true that average IQs are falling across the developed world, it hasn't had any noticeable impact, says Thomas Tiddle, a professor at the University of Copenhagen and the same scientist who noticed the decline in average IQs among the Danish military. The number of scientific publications is growing, an increasing percentage of people are receiving higher education, the pace of technology development is increasing every year, and it is not very clear whether the average IQ value can influence anything other than statistics. So you shouldn’t attach too much importance to some arbitrary numbers.
The material was first published on the Look At Me website.
People with a high level of intelligence
There are such people, but they are few. All over the world, only three percent of people can boast of the highest intelligence, which reaches 130. Almost each of them devoted their entire life to a certain field of activity, where they were able to achieve considerable heights. Among people with a high level of intelligence there are famous personalities:
- Terence Tao - IQ 230.
- Christopher Michael Hirata - IQ 230.
- Nathan Leopold - 210.
- Kim Ung-Yong - IQ 210.
- Garry Kasparov - IQ 190.
- Albert Einstein - IQ 170-190.
- Andrew Wiles - IQ 170.
- Bill Gates - IQ 160.
- Stephen Hawking - IQ 160.
What IQ Tests Really Measure and Why They're Not Universal
A test very close to what we understand today as an IQ test was developed in 1912 by the German psychologist William Lewis Stern. He took as a basis various tasks and puzzles of the 19th century and tied them into his system of studying child psychology - the result was partly reminiscent of the psychological test developed in parallel by Alfred Binet. Essentially, Stern wanted to create a method for assessing the developmental potential of children, but all subsequent IQ tests (including those of the controversial British psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck, who popularized the very idea of measuring IQ) assumed variations for adults.
A test where you have to answer 40 questions in 30 minutes is too outdated and inaccurate. But it has penetrated so deeply into universities, research institutes, and now the Internet that it still cannot be eradicated. If you took an IQ test in school, it was probably one of the many variations of the Eysenck test. At the same time, a standardized test has not appeared for more than 100 years: there are several dozen basic versions (by Cattell, Wexler and other psychologists), as well as several hundred of their modifications - and this is if we take into account only the tests used by major scientists, and do not take adapted versions for different ages are taken into account.
Most likely, each of us has taken an IQ test, at least out of interest, but many find it difficult to answer what exactly it measures. The most popular answer is some kind of conditional “mind”. In fact, the average IQ test measures your ability to analyze new information (both using and not using old) relative to your age. In this case, the tests are specially designed in such a way that the average value is equal to 100 points. It is believed that a score below 70 points indicates problems in mental development, but the so-called threshold of genius varies greatly from version to version: somewhere it starts from 140 points, somewhere from 160.
Some features of passing the test
The standard Eysenck test includes 40 tasks, which take 30 minutes to solve. To complete them, a person must:
- have the ability to perform mathematical operations;
- have a large vocabulary and perfect command of spoken language;
- have logical thinking;
- be observant;
- be able to highlight the main thing;
- have a good memory;
- be diligent and be able to concentrate.
Most problems are quite simple and their solution does not take much time. However, if during testing any question caused difficulty, you need to quickly decide whether it is worth wasting time on it. To reduce the number of incorrect answers, you need to read the task carefully and thoughtfully.
Before you start taking the test, you should make sure that:
- you are not sick;
- you are in a good mood;
- nothing disturbs or distracts you;
- you are in no hurry;
- you are not hungry and did not overeat at your last meal;
- you don't feel hot or cold.
The essence of the technique
During the testing process, the test taker must solve as many tasks as possible in arithmetic, logic, and spatial thinking. Most tasks have answer options from which you must choose the correct one. In some tasks the answer must be written in words.
The tasks require you to establish numerical or letter patterns, identify common parts of words, and select the missing geometric figure. The tasks are divided into blocks. Towards the end of each block, the tasks become more difficult. The more correct answers a person manages to give in the allotted time, the more points he gains.
Age characteristics
Intelligence testing should be carried out no more than 2 times in a lifetime. The first time is at the age of 10-12 years, when the child has acquired a sufficient amount of knowledge for testing, and in adulthood, when mental abilities have reached the peak of their development. A person’s IQ is calculated by the ratio of their mental development score (in points) to their age, multiplied by 100.
