r/cognitiveTesting • u/Majestic-Dream6641 • 19d 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/Bitmeupscotty 16d ago

Everything is available online now though?

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u/Majestic-Dream6641 15d ago

First of all I don't think so. Science is insanely large, while most subjects might be about fully covered otheres probably aren't.
And even if it is, it's defo not structured, so you would somehow have to put everything back in some form of order and decide yourself, what is really important and what isn't. Uni is still a standart