There is general agreement among psychologists that intelligence is composed of two components: fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence. Fluid intelligence is related to neural efficiency, manifest in the ability to learn quickly, solve problems, comprehend abstract ideas, and retain information in short-term memory long enough to make connections. The more efficiently the brain is “hard-wired” in its neural …
How many people have a genius level IQ? Is it even possible to find them all and test them, if so how and where would you start looking for these rare individuals? The problem of estimating the number of people with genius level IQ in a particular country is much easier than testing everyone. For …
People who have a high IQ are usually aware that they learn more quickly than others. They are often very successful in school, and faster than others in mastering cognitive tasks. Through these experiences, they acquire confidence in their ability to think independent of others. This enables them to escape from accepted beliefs and “think …
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People with an IQ of 160 or more are in the 99.96 percentile. This means that there are 0.04% of the human population who score as well or better on IQ tests. If the world has about 8 billion people, then 0.04% x 8,000,000,000 = 3,200,000 people in the world have an IQ of 160 …
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When people ask who has done the most to shape our world, we often think of those who have contributed the greatest technological advances. Certainly, the visionaries who launched the four Industrial Revolutions played a major role in reshaping our world. Beginning with the early steam-driven machines created by James Watt and Robert Fulton, to …
The brain of a young child grows at a prodigious rate. In a very short time, the child acquires verbal language, learns how to read and write, and absorb information quickly, retaining names and reciting snippets of television commercials with 100% accuracy. The child’s parents, having forgotten how quickly they acquired knowledge and skills during …
High intelligence is probably a prerequisite for genius, especially the kind of genius that is expressed in abstract fields like mathematics, physics and the other sciences, because measures of intelligence are highly correlated with performance in these fields. In the arts, high intelligence may be less important than a special creativity, skill or knowledge. Shakespeare’s …
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Intelligence is at a premium in fields that demand high cognitive skills. For many highly intelligent people, the existence of others who might be even more intelligent poses a threat to their supremacy. An example of the anguish experienced by those in the top intellectual echelon was captured in the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting. When …
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Intelligence, as measured by IQ tests is distributed throughout the human population like height and many other physical characteristics. Most men have a height that deviates a small amount from the average adult male height. In the US, the average male height is 5′9.5″. This means that 50% of American males are at or below …
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Highly intelligent people often immerse themselves so deeply into their research that they spend little time with people outside their domain, thereby limiting their exposure to the world at large. For example, those who have grown up in protected environments, without exposure to bullies and aggressive people, sometimes become pacifists, believing that a refusal to …
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