--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > Johann Bach was 165. Asia Carrera is 156. Charles Dickens had 180. > > Marilyn Vos Savant is 228. Surprisingly, Albert Einstein "only" had 160 > > compared to some of the people on the list. > > > > http://newsterm.blogspot.com/2013/02/johann-sebastian-bachs-iq-was-165.html > > > How do they know the IQ of people like Dickens and Bach who died > before the IQ test was invented? >
IQ is supposed to measure, up until about age 16, how much more intellectual ability you have than other people your age, by comparing scores. The average 16 year old's score, by definition, puts them at an IQ o f 100. After age 16, it is used as a statistical measure of where you are on the standard bell curve with respect to intelligence. You can estimate where people are on the bell curve by looking at their achievements, their writings, their interests, etc. and comparing it to the average. Marilyn vos Savant is a total underachiever by any measure, if her IQ really is as high as she claims. L
