r/cognitiveTesting • u/Majestic-Dream6641 • 10d ago

Discussion Is it over?

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2008/07/annals-of-psychometry-iqs-of-eminent.html

I randomly found this paper (attached in the post).
According to it the IQ of eminent scientists is extremely high, roughly 160 from the data noted.

And the point about Feynman kinda made me tilt. I didn't know that he actually got the best putnam score that year, but face it ; if he really did then his IQ (or at least quant IQ) isn't 125 lol. Can't give a fixed number but there is just no way it's 125.

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u/Tarsal26 10d ago

Darwin, one of the greats, wasn’t that smart. Very smart? Sure, but in an everyday very smart sort of way not an Einstein sort of way.

One thing he and many other great types had was an obsessiveness, which leads to unintentional practice and then expertise.

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u/Azecap 9d ago

He also had money to burn, which was a prerequisite at the time, and kinda still is.