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  • He has a high emotional IQ.†   (source)
  • Jeanine Matthews is Erudite's sole representative, selected based on her IQ score.†   (source)
  • D., George Mason L niversity There is enough mathematical illiteracy in this country, and we don't need the world's highest IQ propagating more.†   (source)
  • Their IQs weren't high enough.†   (source)
  • You've got the football I.Q. of Einstein.†   (source)
  • The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were plenty of students my age and younger (even one spindly twelve year old rumored to have an IQ of 260) their lives were so cloistered and their concerns so foolish and foreign-seeming that it was as if they spoke some lost middle-school tongue I'd forgotten.†   (source)
  • Down a few IQ points, but alive, and he can still take liquids.†   (source)
  • Ever had his IQ tested?†   (source)
  • Some people with Asperger's had low IQs, while other, even more severely autistic people—like the Dustin Hoffman character in Rain Man—were regarded as geniuses in particular subjects.†   (source)
  • It is hard to muster up the proper respect for a chief who wears glasses with no glass in them (he seems to think they raise his intelligence quotient), and the fur of a small animal clasped around his neck, a fashion trademark he shares with the elderly churchgoing ladies of Georgia, charmed I'm sure.†   (source)
  • Those tests had pegged his IQ at 80.†   (source)
  • But as I got older, Dad's hospital joke took on more meaning than I think he IQ intended.†   (source)
  • The woman on the screen has turned from the mirror, approaching the guy on the bed, who looks to have the IQ of a cucumber.†   (source)
  • She possessed an off-the-chart IQ and chillingly accurate instincts, a combination which girded her with a self-confidence that made her terrifying to anyone who could not perform the impossible.†   (source)
  • "I'd like to seduce him into treatment, and he needs seduction," says Prchal, but she knows it won't be easy "People with his IQ,tremendous ambition and achievement don't like to be ordered around."†   (source)
  • IQs aren't that much different.†   (source)
  • Then taking advantage of the sudden and dramatic dip of his IQ, shoved a messy ball of snow down the back of his neck.†   (source)
  • And Wennerström's idiot writes all this to the lawyer in an email—of course encrypted, but even so…It doesn't say much for the IQ of this bunch."†   (source)
  • This low-IQ peacock came tearing after me as soon as it heard me open my bag of peanuts.†   (source)
  • Going on about what low I.Q.'s they have.†   (source)
  • Kelly Gamboni was twenty-one years old, orphaned, and had an IQ of 79.†   (source)
  • Adam Why Was Everyone suddenly worried about my IQ?†   (source)
  • I knew that I was doing this for Jason, that it was important to him, but Bethany and Amanda seemed to be pooling their considerable IQs in a single-minded effort to completely demoralize me.†   (source)
  • Perhaps more important, parents with higher IQs tend to get more education, and IQ is strongly hereditary.†   (source)
  • With one of the highest IQs in the study, one might have expected Hodel to discover the structure of DNA or something.†   (source)
  • Jones' IQ was 158, the highest on the boat by a fair margin.†   (source)
  • The average American IQ, for example, rose by eighteen points from 1947 to 2002.†   (source)
  • But there were only so many times he could read Time's withering critique of the cultural bias of the Stanford-Binet IQ Test, or the breathless account of how sunflowers were becoming North Dakota's newest cash crop.†   (source)
  • These included HIGH IQ, BIG READER, ATTRACTIVE (SEE PHOTO), FUNNY.†   (source)
  • I bet she had an IQ of twenty-seven.†   (source)
  • It said his IQ was phenomenally high and he had a photographic memory.†   (source)
  • He was about three years older than I was, and I didn't like him too much, but he was one of these very intellectual guys— he had the highest I.Q. of any boy at Whooton—and I thought he might want to have dinner with me somewhere and have a slightly intellectual conversation.†   (source)
  • Indeed, he is an active redheaded boy with a genius-level IQ.†   (source)
  • To tell you the truth, this thing about my high IQ is not exactly right.†   (source)
  • She explained to Robby and me that our dad has great intelligence as measured through his IQ score which is off the charts, but he just has to learn in a different manner.†   (source)
  • And I believe that it affected my results on achievement tests, I.Q. tests, and the SAT.†   (source)
  • Her I.Q. was 103.†   (source)
  • His buddies, average IQ that of newly hatched turkey vultures, burst into laughter.†   (source)
  • It is menial labor for a man with Oswald's relatively high IQ of 118, and involves nothing more than placing books into boxes for shipping.†   (source)
  • Even people with IQs as low as fifty and brains as small as four hundred grams, less than a third the size of a normal human brain, can fully speak.†   (source)
  • Her father was a brute with a single-digit IQ.†   (source)
  • "Her IQ's not much higher than sixty.†   (source)
  • Most people who have LLI do end up with mental issues…. unless they have a high enough IQ to handle it.†   (source)
  • Either your undersecretary is a liar or he has the IQ of a fern!†   (source)
  • I've brought my IQ up, though.†   (source)
  • We are seeing a recrudescence of these contentions by scientists, even to the recent suggestion that men with lower IQs (by white-oriented tests) be paid to have vasectomies—one thousand dollars for each point lower than 100, so that a man with an IQ of 90 would get ten thousand dollars to have himself sterilized.†   (source)
  • Your I.Q. and your Personality Profile show nothing like this.†   (source)
  • That I.Q. of his —†   (source)
  • "I would've guessed Otis had an IQ of minus ten," Sandy said with a smile.   (source)
    IQ = a measure of general intelligence where a high score is considered a strength for many kinds of tasks and almost 99% of people have a score over 70
  • One hundred and thirty IQ points all focused on cooking up doom.   (source)
    IQ = measure of general intelligence
  • IQ tests, you mean?   (source)
  • Yeah, I got myself an IQ of 155.   (source)
    IQ = measure of general intelligence (where 100 is average)
  • The boy had a measured IQ of 80, which put him in mankind's 9th percentile.†   (source)
  • IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability.†   (source)
  • That wasn't supposed to happen: IQ was meant to be a given, like the size of one's feet.†   (source)
  • "The average person has an IQ of one hundred," the voice-over continued.†   (source)
  • Being a successful lawyer is about a lot more than IQ.†   (source)
  • "You can watch somebody taking an IQ test and see how they learn from experience," said Jessup.†   (source)
  • The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point.†   (source)
  • And they all had at least an average IQ.†   (source)
  • The "IQ fundamentalist" Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (p.†   (source)
  • To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts.†   (source)
  • Well, suppose that instead of measuring your IQ, I gave you a totally different kind of test.†   (source)
  • The idea that IQ has a threshold, I realize, goes against our intuition.†   (source)
  • Langan's IQ is 30 percent higher than Einstein's.†   (source)
  • She doesn't need a higher IQ or a mind as quick as Chris Langan's.†   (source)
  • What Hudson is saying is that IQ is a lot like height in basketball.†   (source)
  • Another time, Langan took an IQ test specially designed for people too smart for ordinary IQ tests.†   (source)
  • * * Most estimates put the heritability of IQ at roughly 50 percent.†   (source)
  • *) If I had magical powers and offered to raise your IQ by 30 points, you'd say yes, right?†   (source)
  • He had an IQ of above 140, which is near genius level.†   (source)
  • People at the bottom of the scale, with an IQ below 70, are considered mentally disabled.†   (source)
  • Hudson tells us that Florence is a prodigy, with one of the highest IQs in his school.†   (source)
  • His IQ is well above normal, and Klin speaks of him with genuine respect.†   (source)
  • He's probably got double the IQ that you do, Crash.†   (source)
  • Luke Brandon, with his genius IQ and bloody photographic memory—against me.†   (source)
  • Worldwide, iodine deficiency alone reduces humanity's collective IQ by more than 1 billion points.†   (source)
  • Those girls must have IQs low enough to trip over.†   (source)
  • My record shows that I flunked kindergarten and in first grade had no IQ-a zero IQ.†   (source)
  • His lumpishness was sending out germs that would lower my IQ.†   (source)
  • His leechiness was drawing IQ points out of the back of my head.†   (source)
  • He was so swift at this his StanfordBinet IQ, which is essentially a record of skill at analytic manipulation, was recorded at 170, a figure that occurs in only one person in fifty thousand.†   (source)
  • The principal, whose intellectual capacities lie only fractions of an IQ point above Dale's, believed his lame story, and Dale was readmitted to class.†   (source)
  • And this column was written by Marilyn vos Savant and in the magazine it said that she had the highest IQ in the world in the Guinness Book of World Records Hall of Fame.†   (source)
  • Sure, there's too much paperwork and boredom, and everyone smokes and can't complete a sentence without cursing and has boxes of dirty magazines under his bed, and you have to answer to ROTC guys fresh out of college who think grunts like me have the IQs of Neanderthals; but you're forced to learn the most important lesson in life, and that's the fact that you have to live up to your responsibilities, and you'd better do it right.†   (source)
  • The mind described by the new IQ test was not recognizably the same mind that had been tested five years earlier.†   (source)
  • If Michael's IQ really was as low as advertised, Jessup explained, he wouldn't have been classified as learning-disabled: he was just learning as well as his brain would allow.†   (source)
  • Those low IQ scores Michael generated as a child, they guessed, were caused by his encountering, inside the problems, a hole in his experience, and then simply giving up.†   (source)
  • Now the two psychological examiners established that his IQ was currently somewhere between 100 and 110—which is to say that he was no more or less innately intelligent than most of the kids in his class at Briarcrest.†   (source)
  • How, on the brink of adulthood, with a measured IQ of 80, no formal education and no experience of white people, he had so insinuated himself into rich white Memphis that white people no longer noticed the color of his skin.†   (source)
  • * The super IQ test was created by Ronald K. Hoeflin, who is himself someone with an unusually high IQ.†   (source)
  • A mature scientist with an adult IQ of 130 is as likely to win a Nobel Prize as is one whose IQ is 180.†   (source)
  • Chris has an IQ of one ninety-five.†   (source)
  • And, critically, it is a kind of intelligence separate from the sort of analytical ability measured by IQ.†   (source)
  • James Flynn, perhaps the world's leading expert on IQ, has subsequently made a fascinating counterclaim.†   (source)
  • Florence's IQ is higher than Poole's.†   (source)
  • A s the description makes obvious, an IQ of 200 is really, really high: "Young L's erudition was astonishing.†   (source)
  • C H A P T E R T H R E E "KNOWLEDGE OF A BOY'S IQ IS OF LITTLE HELP IF YOU ARE FACED WITH A ROOM FULL OF CLEVER BOYS.†   (source)
  • "There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals," Terman once said.†   (source)
  • The introduction to the 1 vs. 100 episode pointed out that Einstein had an IQ of 150 and Langan has an IQ of 195.†   (source)
  • To get into and succeed in a reasonably competitive graduate program, meanwhile, you probably need an IQ of at least 115.†   (source)
  • Terman's specialty was intelligence testing; the standard IQ test that millions of people around the world would take during the following fifty years, the StanfordBinet, was his creation.†   (source)
  • The television news show 20/20 once hired a neuropsychologist to give Langan an IQ test, and Langan's score was literally off the charts, too high to be accurately measured.†   (source)
  • Asians' IQs, he says, have historically been slightly lower than whites' IQs, meaning that their dominance in math has been in spite of their IQ, not because of it.†   (source)
  • Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn't seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage.†   (source)
  • * To get a sense of what Chris Langan must have been like growing up, consider the following description of a child named "L," who had an IQ in the same 200 range as Langan's.†   (source)
  • A typical Raven's test consists of forty-eight items, each one harder than the one before it, and IQ is calculated based on how many items are answered correctly.†   (source)
  • Over the years, an enormous amount of research has been done in an attempt to determine how a person's performance on an IQ test like the Raven's translates to reallife success.†   (source)
  • And it was to those with a very high IQ, he believed, that "we must look for production of leaders who advance science, art, government, education and social welfare generally."†   (source)
  • So he decided to test CowelPs IQ.†   (source)
  • High-tech companies like Google or Microsoft carefully measure the cognitive abilities of prospective employees out of the same belief: they are convinced that those at the very top of the IQ scale have the greatest potential.†   (source)
  • Lynn's claim that Asians have higher IQs has been refuted, convincingly, by a number of other experts, who showed that he based his argument on IQ samples drawn disproportionately from urban, upper-income homes.†   (source)
  • * "It is amply proved that someone with an IQ of 170 is more likely to think well than someone whose IQ is 70, Beyond this, the IQ level becomes relatively unimportant in terms of ordinary occupational aspirations and criteria of success.†   (source)
  • But IQ differences in this upper part of the scale have far less personal implications than the thresholds just described and are generally of lesser importance for success in the popular sense than are certain traits of personality and character.†   (source)
  • As Hudson writes (and keep in mind that he did his research at elite all-male English boarding schools in the 1950s and 1960s), "Knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with aformful of clever boys.†   (source)
  • The students who scored in the top 10 percent were then given a second IQ test, and those who scored above 130 on that test were given a third IQ test, and from that set of results Terman selected the best and the brightest.†   (source)
  • can or cannot master the traditional subject matter of elementary school (about IQ 75), can or cannot succeed in the academic or college preparatory curriculum through high school (about IQ 105), can or cannot graduate from an accredited four-year college with grades that would qualify for admission to a professional or graduate school (about IQ 115).†   (source)
  • Flynn's argument was outlined in his book Asian Americans: Achievement Beyond IQ ( 1 9 9 1 ) . surprising effects of such things as power distance and numbers that can be said in a quarter as opposed to a third of a second, it's hard not to wonder how many other cultural legacies have an impact on our twenty-first-century intellectual tasks.†   (source)
  • The "IQ fundamentalist" Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (p.113) : " The four socially and personally most important threshold regions on the IQ scale are those that differentiate with high probability between persons who, because of their level of general mental ability, can or cannot attend a regular school (about IQ 50), can or cannot master the traditional subject matter of elementary school (about IQ 75), can or cannot succeed in the academic or college preparatory curriculum throug†   (source)
  • We think that, say, Nobel Prize winners in science must have the highest IQ scores imaginable; that they must be the kinds of people who got perfect scores on their entrance examinations to college, won every scholarship available, and had such stellar academic records in high school that they were scooped up by the top universities in the country.†   (source)
  • British psychologist Liam Hudson has written, "and this holds true where the comparison is much closer, between IQs of, say, 100 and 130.†   (source)
  • But the relation seems to break down when one is making comparisons between two people both of whom have IQs which are relatively high….†   (source)
  • Asians' IQs, he says, have historically been slightly lower than whites' IQs, meaning that their dominance in math has been in spite of their IQ, not because of it.†   (source)
  • That is not to say that there are not real differences between the intellectual capabilities represented by IQs of 115 and 150 or even between IQs of 150 and 180.†   (source)
  • Lewis Terman's genius study, as you will recall from the chapter about Chris Langan, was an investigation into how some children with really high IQs who were born between 1903 and 1917 turned out as adults.†   (source)
  • * The psychologist Richard Lynn has even gone so far as to propose an elaborate evolutionary theory involving the Himalayas, really cold weather, premodern hunting practices, brain size, and specialized vowel sounds to explain why Asians have higher IQs.†   (source)
  • By the time Terman was finished, he had sorted through the records of some 250,000 elementary and high school students, and identified 1,470 children whose IQs averaged over 140 and ranged as high as 200.†   (source)
  • Lynn's claim that Asians have higher IQs has been refuted, convincingly, by a number of other experts, who showed that he based his argument on IQ samples drawn disproportionately from urban, upper-income homes.†   (source)
  • In a devastating critique, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin once showed that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children from the same kinds of family backgrounds as the Termites, and dispensed with IQs altogether, he would have ended up with a group doing almost as many impressive things as his painstakingly selected group of geniuses.†   (source)
  • Bessie Thornton was not a terribly bright woman (her great-aunt, the late Evvie Chalmers, had been fond of screaming to anyone who would listen that Bessie 'wouldn't never pass none of those IQ tests, but she's goodhearted'), her life on Alva's chicken farm was a hard one, and she lived most fully during her 'stories'— As the World Turns, The Doctors, and All My Children (she had tried The Young and the Restless but considered it 'too racy by half').†   (source)
  • IQ.†   (source)
  • Salander remembered Gustavsson as one of the biggest bullies in school, a powerful brute with the IQ of a stump, who seldom passed up an opportunity to dish out insults and punches in the hallway.†   (source)
  • She wouldn't really have minded so much, except for the fact that his girlfriends were usually closer in age to Ben than they were to him and, as a general rule, had the IQs of salad bowls.†   (source)
  • She informed the principal that his IQ tested at the genius level and pressed for Richard to be admitted to the programs for gifted students.†   (source)
  • The truth was, if this was the first time I'd laid eyes on him, I might have felt a little bad about discounting him as a thick jock with a narrow mind-set and an even tinier IQ.†   (source)
  • Although the majority of the orphans living here are of average intelligence, CCY-21-21 has an unusually high IQ, even higher perhaps than that of 89-58, and she loves to learn.†   (source)
  • Tested I.Q. of a hundred and forty.†   (source)
  • Perhaps more important, parents with higher IQs tend to get more education, and IQ is strongly hereditary.†   (source)
  • Not all the kids were prodigies, of course—their IQs ranged from 145 to 190, and Colin, by comparison, had an IQ that sometimes measured above 200—but they represented many of the best and brightest children of that generation of Americans.†   (source)
  • An I.Q. test taken in prison gave him a rating of 130; the average subject, in prison or out, scores between 90 and 110.†   (source)
  • When they started this thing of testing in the schools, I sure hate it that I made such a high score on that old IQ test.†   (source)
  • I had a twenty-inch neck, legs like redwood trees, the temper of a piranha, and my IQ had dropped a hundred points.†   (source)
  • The author of the monograph, a native of Schenectady, New York, was said by some to have had the highest I.Q. of all the war criminals who were made to face a death by hanging.†   (source)
  • Most of the children in the study became successful enough—bankers and doctors and lawyers and college professors—but almost none of them turned out to be real geniuses, and there was little correlation between a really high IQ and making a significant contribution to the world.†   (source)
  • By the time the adopted children became adults, they had veered sharply from the destiny that IQ alone might have predicted.†   (source)
  • The IQ of rural Kenyan children rose eleven points in just fourteen years, a pace greater than any Flynn Effect reported in the West.†   (source)
  • I could honestly feel my IQ dropping as I wondered, for the hundredth time that night, why I'd let them drag me here again.†   (source)
  • Carolina was well-known around the state for its beautiful girls and its callow fraternity boys whose IQ's hovered around the cut-off point for morons.†   (source)
  • Socioeconomic status is a strong indicator of success in general—it suggests a higher IQ and more education—and successful parents are more likely to have successful children.†   (source)
  • Will, I don't know if I've ever told you this story, but about ten years ago I read in the paper that bowlers have the lowest IQ's of any athletes and were generally from a socially inferior class.†   (source)
  • Not all the kids were prodigies, of course—their IQs ranged from 145 to 190, and Colin, by comparison, had an IQ that sometimes measured above 200—but they represented many of the best and brightest children of that generation of Americans.†   (source)
  • The consequence of failing to educate girls is a capacity gap not only in billions of dollars of GNP but also in billions of IQ points.†   (source)
  • Over thirty years, the IQ of Dutch conscripts rose twenty-one points and those of Spanish schoolchildren by ten points.†   (source)
  • Studies have shown that a child's academic abilities are far more influenced by the IQs of his biological parents than the IQs of his adoptive parents, and mothers who offer up their children for adoption tend to have significantly lower IQs than the people who are doing the adopting.†   (source)
  • A study in Ecuador suggests that iodine deficiency typically shaves ten to fifteen points off a child's IQ.†   (source)
  • One scholar estimated that if American children of 1932 had taken an IQ test in 1997, then half of them would have been classified as at least borderline mentally retarded.†   (source)
  • Psychologists have long noted that intelligence as measured by IQ tests has risen sharply over the years, a phenomenon known as the Flynn Effect, after a New Zealand intelligence researcher named James Flynn.†   (source)
  • The second initiative would be for the United States to sponsor a global drive to iodize salt in poor countries, to prevent tens of millions of children from losing approximately ten I.Q. points each as a result of iodine deficiency while their brains are still being formed in the uterus.†   (source)
  • We are seeing a recrudescence of these contentions by scientists, even to the recent suggestion that men with lower IQs (by white-oriented tests) be paid to have vasectomies—one thousand dollars for each point lower than 100, so that a man with an IQ of 90 would get ten thousand dollars to have himself sterilized.†   (source)
  • The only reason I flunked kindergarten was because you couldn't teach me English, and you gave me a zero IQ.†   (source)
  • They called it the I.Q. but it was the evil-I.Q.   (source)
    I.Q. = measure of general intelligence
  • So I still don't know what I.Q. is, and everybody says it's something different.   (source)
  • I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70.   (source)
  • But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I.Q. didn't weigh intelligence at all.   (source)
  • And I'm not talking about your I.Q. It's your attitude toward people—you're not the same kind of human being—   (source)
  • Nemur says, with much more than twice my I.Q. of 70, then maybe people will like me and be my friends.   (source)
  • He said an I.Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup.   (source)
  • He pats Charlie's head and says, "You're a lot nicer than some of the normal kids whose mothers bring them here hoping I can make geniuses out of them by raising their I.Q.'s."   (source)
    I.Q.'s = measures of general intelligence
  • I'm not sure what I.Q. is anyway.   (source)
    I.Q. = measure of general intelligence
  • When I asked Burt Seldon, who gives me my intelligence tests and works with Algernon, he said that some people would say both of them were wrong and according to the things he's been reading up on, the I.Q. measures a lot of different things including some of the things you learned already and it really isn't a good measure of intelligence at all.   (source)
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