Weird to read over the Twitter threads like "I just can't believe all these historical figures reputed as great geniuses had IQs...
Weird to read over the Twitter threads like “I just can’t believe all these historical figures reputed as great geniuses had IQs as high as 140”, because like, I test around 175. People can be smart! Someone’s gonna be the long tail.
Like yeah, there’s a whole bell curve to it!
“Well the only people I’ve met below 70 had Down Syndrome, that doesn’t count”.
Yeah, I’ll let you know first time I meet someone above 130 without autism.
Also all the people like “they said I was impressively smart but didn’t give a number” yeah, my dad was the school district lawyer, probably better at squeezing things out of state employees than most.
People saying stuff about scores being normalized by age yeah, like I said they retested me occasionally (just one, not the whole battery) and I heard it held up, though I never heard numbers again, hell maybe it DID go down with older better sampling and keeping subjects from anchoring on the first score was part of WHY they don’t give that stuff out freely. Who knows.