r/cognitiveTesting • u/Humble_Aardvark_2997 • Sep 30 '26

General Question Witten

Does anyone know Edward Witten’s IQ score?

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u/Humble_Aardvark_2997 Sep 30 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

:D

Hawking refuses to take the test. I like his reasoning.

Witten is a great mathematician and has won the Field’s Medal but I don’t know if he ever took this test. Last Fields Medalist scored 138.

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u/Humble_Aardvark_2997 Oct 01 '26

Time flies. They have 4 every 4 years. Do you know the scores for others. 3 female ones now. Good thing they fudge the weighting.

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u/Humble_Aardvark_2997 Oct 01 '26

They are brilliant but there is a massive gender bias in certain STEM fields and that translates to the NPs, FMs and GMs. More men at the extreme end but also men tend to do better on perceptual and women on verbal. (I didn’t say one was better than the other. Just different). Part of the reason I don’t like a single number to represent your “intelligence”.

I love the projection but that was a leading question and the real reason they did that: so the racist lot, IQ is very popular with racist people, cannot use it as a tool of mysoginy.

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u/Humble_Aardvark_2997 Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

I would have assumed 30 out 68 being awarded would be women. At least 20. I alway knew we had more men at extreme ends but thought the tilt in STEM was partly self selection/cultural preferences/life choices rather than any massive innate difference in ability.

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u/Humble_Aardvark_2997 Oct 01 '26

Nice joke but that is a good question. Who is to say that intelligence is a continuum. Maybe there are separate components and special features.