DO YOU HAVE AN IQ OF 145?

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Every so often Quora sends me an interesting query.  Yesterday it was:

     What does an IQ of 145 mean?

0.  An IQ of 145 means you are smarter than 99.9% of the population.

1.  You are relatively isolated.

      Nah, I'm not.

2.  Many people seem to be missing something, and the rest disagree with you.  

      Sounds like me.

3.  Things most people are passionate about (football, basketball, rock) will seem meaningless to you.

      I'm quite passionate about supporting my college schools:  Stanford, LSU, Hawaii, and music ranging from baroque to golden oldies.

4.  Eventually you will accumulate a small number of friends who are as smart as you.

      Mostly true.

5.  You find it very difficult to cooperate with people, form teams, or stay in voluntary organizations for more than about a year.

      My whole professional life was built around forming teams and cooperating with others.  In my late retirement I decided I've cooperated enough and now I do what I want mostly for myself.

6.  Your net worth is on average a little higher than your social peers, but highly volatile, and you are probably not rich.

     Mostly true, but my financial status has generally been stable.

7.  You have brilliant ideas, often not worked out correctly, and peer reviewers don't understand them.

      This is the story of my life.  Absolutely me.  Blue Revolution, Hydrogen Economy, Fusion Energy, OTEC, World Peace, Rainbow Colored Pearls, Hawaiian Onsen....everything I champion has not quite made it.

8.  By the time you get old you have figured most of this out, but your energy level is declining, and even if you could do it over, you realize that most people are so trapped in cultural trends and fads that they don't truly interest you.

      Yes, this, too, is me.

9.  Conditions are much less favorable to high IQ individuals now than they were 50 years ago.

      Not really.

SO DO I HAVE A 145 IQ?  PROBABLY NOT.

According to specialists:

IQ                  % of Population  Interpretation

above 130               2.1               Very gifted
121-130                  6.4               Gifted
110-120                15.7               Above average
  90-110                51.6               Average
  80-89                  15.7               Below average
  70-79                    6.4               Impaired
below 70                2.0                Even worse

Or your college major:

Hey, I have a PhD in biochemical engineering, so that must place me between 132 and 145.  Donald Trump is said to have an IQ of 156:

There is a plethora of articles on this subject, and Snopes doubts the 156 IQ of Trump.

However, BuzzFuse has Donald Trump at 165, with Thomas Jefferson at 190, James Madison 180, John Adams 175, Abraham Lincoln 175....John Kennedy 155....Bill Clinton 150....Barack Obama 145...George Washington 140....Richard Nixon 135....Gerald Ford 130....George W. Bush 125....Ronald Reagan 125....

ScienceTrends reports:

The person with the highest IQ ever recorded is William James Sidis (left) with a score between 250 and 300.  Went to Harvard at 11, became a teacher and died penniless at the age of 46. The list continues as follows with the highest possible IQ:

• Terence Tao (click on that and watch a clip of this genius mathematician, IQ score between 225 and 230)
• age 43 today
• scored 760 on the math SAT at age of nine
• youngest full professor at UCLA ever

• Marilyn Vos Savant (IQ score of 228)
• age 61
• once listed by Guinness as smartest person
• solved the Monty Hall problem in 1990
• Christopher Hirata (IQ score of 225)

• Kim Ung-Yong (IQ score of 210)
• photo looks really old, but he is only 56 today
• solved differential equations at age 5
• studied nuclear physics at the University of Colorado at the age of 8
• spent a decade with NASA
• currently is on the faculty of Shinhan University in South Korea

• Edith Stern (IQ score over 200)

• age 66 today
• math calculations at the age of one
• 128 U.S. patents
• Christopher Michael Langan (IQ score between 190 and 210)

• Garry Kasparov (right, IQ score of 194)
• Philip Emeagwali (IQ score of 190)

• Judit Polgar (IQ score of 170)
• 41 years old
• Hungarian chess grandmaster, considered strongest female player of all time, defeating even Garry Kasparov
• she retired from chess in 2014
• father believed that geniuses are made, not born, and personally trained his daughters.
• Albert Einstein (IQ score between 160 and 190)
• Stephen Hawking (IQ score of 160)

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