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My thoughts too, exactly. 165 is nuts. But I do appreciate the points made in the post overall. Maybe compare 125 to 140 or 145.[/quote]

On the scale I remember it doesn’t go to 165…I think it ends at maybe 145.[/quote]

After adjusting for all of the factors that make it hard to mess and compare IQs:

- Someone with an IQ of 140 is in the top 1 percent and someone with an IQ of 145 is close to the top 0.1 percent.

- The regular IQ tests psychologists now give kids top out at 145.

- In the old days, IQ tests went up higher. That was possible partly because IQ was closely related to age. A 6-year-old who performed as well as an an average 12-year-old would have had an IQ of 200.

- Someone with an IQ of 160 or higher would be the smartest person on a group of 30,000 people. So, counting kids from overseas who could attend school in the United States, there might be about 200 kids at that level in any given year. Maybe Columbia gets about 10 to 15 of them per year. In theory, the gap between those kids and an average bright college student is as big as the gap between the average bright student and kids who are in a regular non-honors math class. And then Mom and Dad stress the kid out about not being able to keep up with the superhumans. [/quote]

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