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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No there aren’t 200 kids per grade in FCPS that have IQs > 175.[/quote]

Wow that would be the highest recorded IQ[/quote]

The thing is many tests saturate at the highest scores.  #s are probably meaningless above about 150.  if you use 99.9 as the basis, and use a scale with a 15 point standard deviation, by definition, you are just over three standard deviations above the mean.  Or, just over 145.

175 is 5 standard deviations, or  330,000,000/ 1744278= 190 people in the US.  But, you can't measure it as the tests can't scale that high.

Instead, you can look at lifetime results and the problems they can solve.

Really, anything about 140 is hard to measure.  One question can mean 10 points; one extra second in a section can impact it.

The difference between scoring 160 and 140 can a distracting itch.    (the key thing is scoring/measuring).

Years ago (around 1990), I was part of a study that looked at intelligence compared with different actions.  My baseline is about 155.  No sleep and it dropped to 130.  Drunk and it dropped to 110...etc.  
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