At 7:40 PM -0400 10/3/99, Stephen Black wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 03 Oct 1999 10:35:10 -0500 Jim Matiya
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Folks,
>> > My wife asked me why I was in the bathroom alone with a flashlight. I
>> > told her I was trying to see upside down....I need help
>> > Here is paraphrasing Marilyn Von Savant column in last week's Parade
>> > magazine...
>
>On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Kenneth M. Steele replied:
>>
>> If Marilyn said the latter that then she is wrong <snip>
>
>Question: Is it possible for an individual who is (was?) listed in the
>Guiness Book of Records as having the world's highest IQ to be wrong?
Has anyone ever questioned how it's possible to have an IQ above the
scaling range (160 is the highest that I'm aware of). I believe that
anything off-scale would simply be 160+.
>Conversely, can we trust someone whose IQ was undoubtedly artificially
>and unfairly enhanced through listening to Mozart?
>
>I think Jim's empirical approach is the only way to go. I have a story
>about this, involving scholars and horse's teeth.
>
>-Stephen
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