"Guinness retired the category of "Highest IQ" in 1990, after concluding that IQ tests are not reliable enough to designate a single world record holder"
She got the title in 1985, there was clearly not a way for a man to counter her. Men were only given 5 years, and therefore how can they compete with this woman?
This is an inaccurate title!
Also, here is a quote from an other website:
"On a more modern level, the highest IQ ever recorded was by Marilyn vos Savant with 228; however that is a mental status ratio IQ (used for children). Adult IQs are measured by standard deviations, in which her adult IQ would compute to about 185, which is lower than famous chess master Bobby Fischer (187)."
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/9550
The highest IQ according to this website is a MAN!
"There is some disagreement when it comes to the world鈥檚 highest IQ. Marilyn vos Savant is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer and playwright. It is Marilyn vos Savant that has the highest IQ according to Guinness. Her IQ is 228; however, the test that resulted in this score was taken b Marilyn at the age of 10. Eight months later she took another IQ test and this time scored 167+. Guinness retested Marilyn in the mid-1980s and on that test she scored about 186, which is still very good. A score of 186 is in the 99.999997 percentile, or about 1 in 30,000,000.
It was Marilyn vos Savant who made The Monty Hall Problem controversy. The Monty Hall Problem (named because it sounds like a game show scenario) is as follows: Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
It seems like the logical way of thinking would lead you to believe there is a 50/50 chance of winning the car if you switch or stay with your original door. Marilyn vos Savant claimed that there was a 2/3 chance of winning the car if you switched. Letter poured in to her claiming she was wrong, but indeed she has been proven to be right, there is a 2/3 chance of winning the car if you switch doors and a 1/3 chance of winning the car if you don鈥檛. The easiest way to explain why this is so is simply because when you originally picked your door you had a 2/3 chance of picking a goat. So if one goat is gone and it is 2/3 likely that you have selected a goat switching the door would give you only a 1/3 chance of picking a goat and thus a 2/3 chance of winning the car. Genius at it鈥檚 best.
There is one man who supposedly has a much higher IQ than a mere 228. William James Sidis鈥檚 IQ is estimated to be between 250 and 300. This has never been confirmed however. If you want to learn more about Sidis check this link out."
http://www.askipedia.com/askipedia-article-009001-1084.htm
SO NO!
MARILYN DOES NOT HAVE THE HIGHEST IQ!|||thumbs up for men
jason k is probably a sexist bigot who think that men are some kind servants to women
@ jason k
no IQ is exact just estimated|||Really, is this important? Who cares if the world's most clever human being is a man or woman?
Is this just to tick boxes, to somehow feel superior off the back of someone whom you've never met or wanted to meet?
Surely gender studies is about how we treat each other, not scoring points all the time. We're the same species.|||Duuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh, eye jus dunnos...|||I thought Steven hawking had the highest IQ?
*shrugs*|||calm down|||Not true and those sites are untrustworthy. Some other sites continue to spread false rumors like "She took the test millions of times as a way to get that score" even though she was only ten. Its ridiculous.
Your IQ does not change that much through-out your life. A childrens IQ will give you the same IQ as it does an adult. How do I know this? Because I took an IQ test when I was 11 and became a member of Mensa. Twenty years later I took the IQ test again(the adult form) and my score actually raised.
Besides IQ isn't really measuring intelligence, it is mostly measuring capability to be intelligent. And your score can increase overtime.
To prove my point: Marilyn married a man who almost failed out of high school. He scored an extremely low IQ and barely made it into medical school. In the end he invented the artificial heart that has saved countless people. While he had a low IQ he had a high CQ(creative intelligence) which made him extremely sucessful. IQ's are not the only thing that determines sucess. There are other forms of intelligence as well.
@Liam: Stephan Hawking never had his IQ taken. He believes people who brag about their high IQ are losers and will never do anything with thier high IQ. He had an IQ test taken once and only for the sole purpose of making sure his brain wasn't damaged. Nobody knows the true scores of that IQ test. He strongly is against IQ tests. In a way I agree with him.|||That don't confront me.
IQ is irrelevant to what a person can really do. If one doesn't do anything with intelligence, then it is just wasted. What did Vos Savant do? For awhile, she had a newspaper column. Do you think she made any more money on it than Ann or Abby? I doubt it.|||What's your beef with life, man? Why do you care?
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I just realised something: you went to bare effort and trouble for no reason. You were trying to prove Jason wrong from a previous encounter. Dude, that's low.|||Wow, kind of exploding with frustration there huh? Ok, ok, a man has the highest IQ, and of course that most mean something positive about you too just because you're also a guy.
Seriously though, who cares about what IQ tests have to say, what they measure is how well you did on the IQ test, and usually no more than that.|||A lot of scientists argue whether I.Q. are actually measuring intelligence at all. This is because I.Q. tests are generally the same, and the more I.Q. tests you do, the better you get. So your intelligence remains the same but because you've practised a lot, you naturally get better at it.|||Why do you care so much? It's nearly impossible to determine who is "smarter" or has a higher intelligence score at those levels. Was Einstein smarter than Newton? Was Pascal smarter than Plato? Who knows? And who cares?
The Guiness Book of records retired the category because it's not really possible to determine who is smarter on some absolute scale.|||"James Sidis鈥檚 IQ is estimated to be between 250 and 300."
*estimated*
You typed all of that, only to stumble at the finish line.
How sad.
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Yes, but 228 isn't.
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If it's not valid, why do you mention it right before mentioning Sidis?|||actually she did have the highest iq ever RECORDED. but the people with the highest iq ever was always men. they just did not have iq tests back then. but with todays technology we can predict the iq of many men who lived 100s of years ago. and we have today, predicted that there were some great men scientists who lived 100s of years ago whose iq were more than 300. the highest we think is around 350 which goes to a male scientist who lived 600 years ago. there are many men whose iq we predict to be above 300 so i am 100% sure there must be at 10 famous men who lived 100s of years ago whose iq was more than 228. so higher that marilyn's. so dont worry.|||lol @ the sexist rant. Thanks for that. I kind of have a sexist *****le theory about the female gender too but I wouldn't tell anyone about it non anonymously. It goes like this: Pretty much every genius ever has been a guy. More specifically though as well, pretty much every genius songwriter has been a guy. Think about it, even in the good bands with female singers, you look it up and bam all the songwriting is done by the guys. From personal experience guys always seem smarter as well. Therefor: guys are a bit smarter on average than girls.
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