Who had the highest IQ ever?

My take on intelligence
I've been reading through the posts, and I'm pretty sure I'm uncertain what intelligence truly is. However, I do believe it might have something to do with radio waves. You see radio waves have been around for a long time and it's quite obvious that some peoples' brains are able to hone in on certain intellectual stations that are broadcast across the globe. The more intelligence you have, the bigger your brains' "antenna". Notice that many geniuses tend to "hum" as the probe the network for the right answer. So, the next time you hear someone singing as you're walking around, just stop and be dazzled. You might be in vicinity of genius.

welcome bh_superman.....good to have you
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hmmmmmmm, crackle, crackle, fine tuning, hum, hum, sing, hum hum!!!!!!

Well, I'm only twelve years old and I've been determined a genius by my doctors. I have an IQ of 178. No lie.

Intelligence Quotient Measurement
I am fifty one years old. Most people have considered me an intellectual genius for the majority of my lifetime. There are a multiplicity of componential vagaries inherent in intelligence quotient ( I. Q. ) measurement. The highest I. Q. score I ever achieved was 120 in the seventh grade. I scored 108 when I was an adult. I have also scored an average of 109 on two self-administered I. Q. tests. My collegiate PSAT and SAT scores were in the national average range. If they were converted to I. Q. scores they would be translatable as approximately a normal or average I. Q. score.
When many knowledgeably educated individuals have been asked to estimate my I. Q. score ( without their knowing what it is ) their average has hovered around 160. The highest estimates have been 190 and 180. The lowest estimates have been 125, 130 and 150. I have been told by professional experts that I am remarkably unusual in that respect and a remarkably unusual person in many ways who is "definitely on the All-America team for the super unusual". They have also described my perceptivity as being very rare and that I " have been too brilliant for my own good ". Some individuals have considered me a mental prodigy.

IQ test
first of all, i dont really think that "iq" is being messured accuratly at all.The test's are created by scientist for people with highly scientifical minds and not for thoughs who tend to not only think out side the box but in a totally different box all together.
There is a girl who scored 228 on a iq test i dont recall her name it was back when such a score was possible (now that score would be considered unmessurble iq)
i some times wonder really if there is only one type of iq or if we can brake it into two types of iq. If you were to brake genius into two catagories i believe you would find people like einstien,newton,platos ect. and then you would find people such as the man who is on jepardy right now he has the highest score ever currently 1.75 million dollars. this man contains a fenominal amount of facts and knowledge but could this knowledge ever really "improve" man kind such as einstien and newton did?
ask your self do you believe that some 10 year old girl was more brillant than einstien because the "iq" was higher(my arguement is not based on a personal low score. on the contrary) i just dont think people like einstien are 2% of the pop like mensa seems to think. if i were lookin for a genius i would not be looking for scientific abilities only i would consider shakespeire to be a genius of another type and beathoven.
I finally i think that we will not find out the true sorce of genius were we look for it. and we wont really know how much of an effect nature/nurture really has on us until the genitic research of humans begins; i guess i am one of those people who believes in such things and the possibilty that they are allready happening.(sry to change the subject).
and one last thing to think about i know a kid in my physics class that "was" in mensa at the age of 10 there for i believe we all mature mentally at very diferent paces. because he is no longer in mensa infact i am recieving a higher mark than he.(i was in a special class at that time for children who were not keeping up with the class) while he was in mensa ...now the tables have turned which is why i dont believe iq can be tested until at least early adult hood when we are all caught up.
after all monkeys learn faster than humans at first.

William James Sidis
You guys are all wrong, although you all posted highly intelligent people.. To date, William James Sidis has the highest IQ of all time. He was so smart that he could learn an entire language in only one day. His IQ was so high that it was unmeasurable (somewhere between 250 - 300). And after a certain point IQ tests cant be accurate, because if you're that smart it can be hard to tell if one put fourth all his/her effort, as it is often not required by someone like that.
He is a very interesting person in that he never made any major contribution to society other than a few pamphlets that he wrote under alternative names, mainly because he was disgusted with mankind and did not believe that we as a whole were ready for his ideas.
His father was also a genius, and his mother was very intelligent (but not quite at genius level). One interesting thing to note about his father: he claimed to have developed a technique to increase one's brain capacity.. which he taught young william from a very early age.
Google 'William James Sidis' if you are interested in learning more about this enigmatic and mysterious figure..

meet savant years ago when she was married to guy who made first artifical heart, Jarvic. I talked to her...it was like she was listening to a dog...nooding politely.....wondering to pet me or step back a bit and dodge the drull....probably wondering where my owner was....nice lady other than that

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iq?
Hi

<My IQ was measured at 52, does that make me a dumbo?
Im not too smart, but i no sum maffs,does that make up for my lack of percieved mental prowess, I want to know because I am anarchistically apposed to socialogical hero stereo typing and reactionary forum replys.

Got it buttknuckels?

For a while I had an IQ of 1.2 million dollars.

But then the market went down and now
I'm kind of stupid.


Hey . . . this is America.

My father had an IQ in the 150's. He was a total failure as a father, a husband and a human being.

His brother's IQ is 98. He's a retired college professor with advanced degrees, a science building named after him and a great life.

So what difference does it make really?

HEY, YEA
MegaGenius.. Is known to have the highest Iq of all time... Check this guy out.... www.megagenious.com

I thought this thread went to IQ heaven a long time ago.

It did, c.i. Any new postings are messages from the Beyond.

My IQ is 126 and im 15 is that good?

michaelminett, First of all, welcome to a2k. Second of all, you're too smart for a2k. LOL

I have a question.
I looked at those lists, you know, with the Mozart with this IQ and the Von Savant with this IQ, and I was thinking about those genius kids you see on the TV and chess champions at age 4...they seem like they should have a very, very high IQ, right?
Basically what I'm wondering is that shouldn't the genuis kids have a super high IQ instead of someone like Mary von Savant, whose writing, IMO, doesn't give the impression of having been written by a genius?

here's something i read in the megagenius site. btw, the link given in another post is incorrect; it's megagenius.com, not megagenious.com. guess the MG knows how to spell.



if that's true, then the overall intelligence at A2K can't be all that high. :wink:

yitwail, You've finally hit on the secret of a2kers; we're all kind of on the south of the IQ range.