London Genius

Young lad from East London has 162 IQ.
Hope it is not wasted.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-46788534/ramarni-wilfred-tops-bill-gates-and-einstein-with-his-iq

i looked up 'oxymoron',
in my oxford dictionary...
one example was 'london genius',
which i found a tad bit scary...

*heads for hog infested brush country*

@rookie54 said
i looked up 'oxymoron',
in my oxford dictionary...
one example was 'london genius',
which i found a tad bit scary...

*heads for hog infested brush country*

Re: London Genius

Oxymoron - good word
interesting etymology.
But the word you want?
Obviously tautology.

@rookie54 said
i looked up 'oxymoron',
in my oxford dictionary...
one example was 'london genius',
which i found a tad bit scary...

*heads for hog infested brush country*

Don't be scared li'l fella.

@wolfgang59 said
Young lad from East London has 162 IQ.
Hope it is not wasted.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-46788534/ramarni-wilfred-tops-bill-gates-and-einstein-with-his-iq

People giving such IQ scores have not understood the test. The IQ scale ends at 145, which is a score which is reached about 1 time in 10000. Higher scores are not statistically relevant.

So the guy has >145 which is quite a number. However my good wishes are with him, since very high IQ-scoreres often have problems to be succesful...

@ponderable said
People giving such IQ scores have not understood the test. The IQ scale ends at 145, which is a score which is reached about 1 time in 10000. Higher scores are not statistically relevant.

So the guy has >145 which is quite a number. However my good wishes are with him, since very high IQ-scoreres often have problems to be succesful...

Then is the reverse true?

@great-big-stees said
Then is the reverse true?

The reverse of what?

The IQ is defined roughly as follows:

* Intelligence follows a normal distribution (Gauss), 98% of people are between 70 and 130.
The smallest and the highest percentile are distributed along the next 15 points. To establish a test to distinguish between people with a probability of less than 1/10000 is not really worth the effort.

The interesting thing is that people today score over 100 on a 50's test.

@ponderable said
People giving such IQ scores have not understood the test. The IQ scale ends at 145, which is a score which is reached about 1 time in 10000. Higher scores are not statistically relevant.

So the guy has >145 which is quite a number. However my good wishes are with him, since very high IQ-scoreres often have problems to be succesful...

when i read this i searched for and took an iq test...
before they would give me the results they wanted $19.00us ...
that information doesn't seem worth that much to me...

@ponderable said
The reverse of what?

A low score would make it easier to be successful.

What is the IQ of people posting in this thread? Mine was around 120 many years ago, I’d probably be quite surprised if I did the test again now.

@divegeester said
What is the IQ of people posting in this thread? Mine was around 120 many years ago, I’d probably be quite surprised if I did the test again now.

I've never been tested (for my IQ anyway) but if I were to guess, thinking 145 was really "good", ya know like a score in bowling (high), mine would be...what? 43 or 44?
Edit I had originally given myself a 65 and on further thinking I thought "Nah. Lower Stees".

@great-big-stees said
I've never been tested (for my IQ anyway) but if I were to guess, thinking 145 was really "good", ya know like a score in bowling (high), mine would be...what? 43 or 44?
Edit I had originally given myself a 65 and on further thinking I thought "Nah. Lower Stees".

Generally we talk about different kinds of intelligence. What is included in our IQ level?

@great-big-stees said
A low score would make it easier to be successful.

No it won't. 110 to 120 is well to advance in life

Does the kid play chess?

Just now there is an interesting debate going on about the IQ:

https://twitter.com/nntaleb