IQ FACT THREAD

[MarkCruz]

The average IQ is between 90 and 109. If you score 132 or more, you can call yourself a genius.

Smartest woman - Marilyn Ann Mach (Marilyn vos Savant) with an IQ of 230 as a child. Marilyn Ann Mach was born in 1946.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant

Smartest man - The IQ of William James Sidis was estimated at between 250 and 300. By the age of 18 months he read the New York Times. He taught himself Latin at 2, Greek at 3, had written a treatise on anatomy at 4, and wrote four books and knew eight languages by age eight. As an adult he spoke more then 40 languages. He once had a job as a Professor of Mathematics, but lasted less than a year. After that he would only take work running calculating machines or other fairly menial tasks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis

Chris Langan has an IQ of 195, the highest IQ known in the USA. He could talk at 6 months and was reading by age 4. He lives in a very small apartment and works part-time as a bouncer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Michael_Langan

http://www.ctmu.org/

American Jeff Avery has an IQ between 134 and 150. He spent eight months in jail after being arrested for assault with intent to kill, before opening a motorcycle repair shop. As President of the Southwest Florida chapter of Mensa, he organises the annual Brainers VS Bikers contest, where each team is encouraged to insult and ridicule the opposing team while answering difficult trivia questions.

At the other end of the scale, Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick co-discovered DNA with an IQ of 120.
Other famous IQs (estimated):
Leonardo da Vinci   220
Johann Sebastian Bach   165
Voltaire   190
Albert Einstein   160+
Sir Isaac Newton   190
Stephen W. Hawking   160+
Galileo Galilei   185
Bill Gates   160
Charles Dickens   180
Sharon Stone   154 
Richard Wagner   170
Richard Nixon   143
Plato   170
Madonna   140

 
Staying in school makes you smarter.

Researchers have shown that each year of schooling is good for about 3.5 IQ points.

Conversely, dropouts lose IQ points. Swedish researchers found a 1.8-point IQ loss for each year of high school missed after dropping out.

Summer vacation means brain drain. Two independent studies show an IQ decline over the summer, increasing with every month out of school. Kids hit hardest are the ones with the least academic orientation.

IQ marks have increased over the decades. If people taking an IQ test today were scored in the same way as people 50 years ago then 90% of them would be classified in the genius level. Tests have to be adjusted every once in a while because of this, to keep the average IQ score at 100. Experts think the rise in IQ scores has happened because of increased education and the advent of television and mass communications (i.e. we know more).

What you put in your mouth can affect your brain. A study of 1 million students in New York City revealed that school pupils did 14 percent better on IQ tests after preservatives, dyes, and artificial flavors were removed from their lunches. The weakest students benefited the most from healthier food.

People with high IQ tend to live longer and suffer less from certain diseases like depression, dementia and schizophrenia, but they also tend to suffer more from obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Research in Scotland has shown people with an IQ 15-points lower-than-average were 20% less likely to see their 76th birthday. Those with an IQ 30-points lower-than-average were 37% less likely to see that birthday.

Although IQ correlates with school performance and job performance, it does not correlate very much with personal income. The best estimate available suggests that IQ explains less than 1/6 of the variance in income.

Women with a higher IQ are 40% less likely to marry.

Mood can affect your IQ score.

Caffeine can improve your IQ score (doesn't make you smarter but makes you more alert and increases short-term memory).

Birth weight and IQ are correlated (weakly). On average, every 2 lb increase is 4.6 IQ points for boys, 2.8 for girls.

Some researchers say that IQ - a predictor of income - is partly inherited. Researchers compared the incomes of fathers and sons and found if you were in the bottom five percent of society you had a one in 20 chance or less of getting to the top.

IQ is not influenced by family size or birth order.

Wine drinkers on average have a higher IQ than beer drinkers. Studies show a slight advantage to wine drinkers — but do wine drinkers have higher IQs because they drink wine or vice-versa ? It may be that some people with high IQ reach a high social status and then choose to drink wine to fit in. (see table below for alcohol consumption data of high IQ countries).

Modern neuro-imaging techniques show that to some degree brain size is correlated to IQ.

Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana, a British study shows.

A chemical found in strawberries and other coloured fruit and vegetables has been found to boost the memory. Fisetin, a naturally occurring flavonoid, stimulates the signalling pathways that enhance long-term memory, according to the Californian and Japanese researchers. The catch - lead researcher Pamela Maher said it would take 4.5kg a day to achieve a beneficial effect.

A recent study has shown that it is possible to increase one's IQ by regularly playing puzzle games.

A drop in IQ has been found to be an early predictor of Alzheimer's disease—up to a decade before the onset of the health problem.

Most currently used intelligence tests have been created so that there are no overall gender differences. Some studies do report differences in IQ between men and women, but magnitude of this difference is very small and the direction of the difference not very consistent.

[Sparegeez]

Fact #1

-Swangin and Bangin has an IQ of 86. He took the test online with a calculator and using google as a tool.

[MarkCruz]

Fact #1
-Swangin and Bangin has an IQ of 86. He took the test online with a calculator and using google as a tool.

ELI PORTER STATUS

[Sparegeez]

Fact #2

-Antonio took the test while watching some Lily Thai, without cheating, and got a 135

[Sparegeez]

Fact #3

If you have swag, you have a high IQ. But that doesn't mean that if you have a high IQ, you have swag. Just ask this guy.

http://www.jonsouth.com/nerd.jpg

Right Kain?

[Lanothegreat]

i just did a free iq test..i dont know if it was real so i kinda fooled around while taking this short ass test and got a score of 129..i think  its bullshit cause i didnt really try....i might be higher if i try

[Intriago33]

http://www.iqtest.com/index.html

[when it rains it pours]

Fact #1

-Swangin and Bangin has an IQ of 86. He took the test online with a calculator and using google as a tool.

prove it
I'm a genius

[REGIME MOB 510]

156, where u at doggie?