Intelligence quotient

Although we might have come across this term plenty of times during our lives, we still need to set some standards so that we can distinguish a great score from an average one.
IQ is nothing but the number that a person scores after taking one of the many standardized tests to measure the intelligence level of individuals. 
Originally, the intelligence quotient was calculated as the ratio of mental age and chronological age (IQ= MA/CA x 100, where MA is mental age, CA is chronological age). However, today, intelligence scores are calibrated against values of actual population scores

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2. What is IQ? Although we might have come across this term plenty of times during our lives, we still need to set some standards so that we can distinguish a great score from an average one. IQ is nothing but the number that a person scores after taking one of the many standardized tests to measure the intelligence level of individuals.  Originally , the intelligence quotient was calculated as the ratio of mental age and chronological age (IQ= MA/CA x 100, where MA is mental age, CA is chronological age). However, today, intelligence scores are calibrated against values of actual population scores

3. The highest IQ score ever recorded Ainan Celeste Cawley (IQ score: 263) William James Sidis (IQ score: 250-300) Terence Tao (IQ score: 225-230) Marilyn Vos Savant (IQ score: 228) Christopher Hirata (IQ score: 225) Kim Ung -Yong (IQ score: 210) Edith Stern (IQ score: 200+) Christopher Michael Langan (IQ score: 190 – 210) Garry Kasparov (IQ score: 194) Philip Emeagwali (IQ score: 190) Judit Polgar (IQ score: 170) Albert Einstein (IQ score: 160 – 190) Stephen Hawking (IQ score: 160)

4. Stephen Hawking ( IQ-160)

5. Considered one of the greatest minds of our time, he was a professor, author and world-renowned theoretical physicist. His book “A Brief History of Time” has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Moreover, he was the undisputed champion when it comes to the study of black holes, which was also his particular field of study at the time of his death in March 2018. Due to his inspiring battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and his undying love for physics, Hawking was viewed as a symbol of knowledge and intelligence in pop culture, an honor he definitely deserved!

6. Speaking of ‘symbols of knowledge’, the name of this scientist is actually synonymous with genius. It cannot be denied that he shaped the future of science. He received a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the law of photoelectric effect. The theory of relativity was also his brainchild. Although there is no scientific method of calculating his IQ posthumously, researchers have had to resort to estimating his score through careful analysis of his papers.

7. Judit Polgar (IQ score: 170)

8. Chess Grandmasters rarely  aren’t  geniuses, and by rarely, I mean never. Judit Polgar became the youngest one at the age of 15 and still proudly holds that record. She is not only viewed as a pioneer for women in chess, but also as one of the greatest chess players to ever live. She defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in 2002 and went on to conquer 10 other world championships.

9. Philip Emeagwali (IQ score: 190)

10. Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian-born engineer, mathematician, computer scientist and geologist. He left school at an early age of 13 due to the Nigerian- Biafran War. Through hard work and self-study, he earned a degree in Mathematics.   He went on to win the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer to help detect petroleum fields. Even after facing rejection due to racial discrimination, he didn’t give up and continued to inspire people worldwide by earning three Master’s degree in Mathematics, Environmental and Marine Engineering from various universities.

11. Garry Kasparov (IQ score: 194)

12. Being ranked world No.1 225 times over the course of 228 months is no small achievement. Russian by birth, Kasparov is considered by some to be the greatest chess player of all time.  As a testament to his brilliance, he once tied a match with IBM’s Deep Blue, a chess computer that could calculate 100 million moves per second! He is also the proud record holder of the highest number of consecutive wins.

13. Christopher Michael Langan (IQ score: 190 – 210)

14. Born in San Francisco, California, Christopher Langan began speaking at the age of 6 months, and taught himself to read when he was just 3 years old. It is said about Langan that he managed to hit the perfect score in SAT despite falling asleep during the exam! He is frequently hailed as the ‘smartest man in America’. He has also developed a theory called “Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe” (CTMU) which basically deals with “the relationship between mind and reality”.

15. Edith Stern (IQ score: 200+)

16. Born in 1952 to Aaron Stern (a concentration camp survivor whose cancer treatment was paid for by Albert Einstein), Edith Stern could communicate with cards when she was no older than 11 months. At 1, she could identify letters and by 2 she could speak the entire alphabet. At 12, she had already entered college and 4 years later, she was teaching trigonometry there. Her IQ score is reported to be more than 200. Currently, she holds a PhD in Mathematics, and is a distinguished engineer and inventor at IBM.

17. Kim Ung -Yong (IQ score: 210)

18. Born in 1963 in Korea, Kim Ung -Yong started speaking when he was just 6 months old. By his third birthday, Kim Ung -Yong could already read English, Korean, Japanese, and German. As if this wasn’t mind-boggling enough, he was writing poetry and had completed two short stories by the time he was four years old! His drive and thirst for knowledge made him decline enrollment in Korea’s most prestigious university at the age of 16 and he instead started to pursue a PhD in Civil Engineering. Presently, he spends his time doing invaluable research and teaching students at Chungbuk National University in South Korea.

19. Christopher Hirata (IQ score: 225)

20. A former child prodigy, Hirata became the youngest American to clinch a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad in 1996, and he accomplished the incredible feat when he was just 13! He was involved in a project at NASA when he was 16, and obtained his PhD from the prestigious Princeton University at a young age of 22. Presently, he is a visiting professor of astronomy and physics at Ohio State University.

21. Marilyn Vos Savant (IQ score: 228)

22. Marilyn was born in Missouri, US in 1946. She believes that one should keep their premarital surnames, and hence she kept the surname of her mother, Marina vos Savant. As a teenager, she worked at her father’s general store and wrote articles for local newspapers under different names. She rose to fame when she first topped the  Guinness Book of World Records  list of the “highest iq ” category in 1986 and stayed there until 1989. She was reported to have an IQ score of 228. However, a psychology professor and author of IQ tests named Alan Kaufman challenged this and  claimed  that… Miss Savant was given an old version of the Stanford- Binet ( Terman & Merrill 1937), which did, indeed, use the antiquated formula of MA/CA × 100. But in the test manual’s norms, the Binet does not permit IQs to rise above 170 at any age. So, the psychologist who came up with an IQ of 228 committed an extrapolation of a misconception, thereby violating almost every rule imaginable concerning the meaning of IQs

23. Terence Tao (IQ score: 225-230)

24. Born in 1975 to a Chinese family, Terence displayed exceptional aptitude towards Mathematics from a very early age. The fact that he had started attending university-level Math courses should be proof enough of that. He had acquired his PhD when he was just 20, and perhaps more importantly, he was the co-recipient of the Fields Medal in 2006. For the uninitiated, the Fields Medal can be thought of as the Nobel-equivalent awarded in the field of Mathematics, only they give out that award once every 4 years. Presently, Tao resides in Los Angeles with his wife and kids and focuses on theories regarding partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics , harmonic analysis and analytic number theory.

25. William James Sidis (IQ score: 250-300)

26. This man simply plays in an altogether different league. Born in 1898 in New York City,  and raised in a family of intellectuals, he was gifted from the very beginning. At the age of 5, he could use a typewriter and had learnt to speak Latin, Greek, Russian, French, German and Hebrew. He was denied admission to Harvard at the age of 6 because he was called too emotionally immature. Later, at age 11, they were forced to admit him, after which he gave his well-received first lecture on 4-dimensional physics! He was threatened by some fellow students at Harvard, so his parents assigned him to a teaching job in Texas. Due to this he could not pursue academics and instead decided to focus on his political career. He died of a stroke at the age of 46 as a reclusive, penniless clerk.

27. Ainan Celeste Cawley (IQ score: 263)

28. This man is the youngest of the lot. Born in 1999, Ainan Celeste Cawley is projected to have an IQ score of 263! At the age of 7, Ainan became the youngest person in the world to pass Chemistry-O level. By the age of 8, he was taking Chemistry lectures at Singapore Polytechnic (an institution of higher learning in Singapore). He composes music and can recite Pi to 518 decimal places.

29. TOP 25 Countries with high average IQ 25. CANADA 24.USA 23.NORWAY 22.MONGOLIA 21.FRANCE 20.DENMARK 98 19.AUSTRALIA 18.SPAIN 17.POLAND 16.HUNGARY 15.UK AVE 100 14.NEWZEALAND 13.CHINA 12.BELGIUM 100 11. SWITHERLAND 101 HONG KONG 107 SOUTH KOREA 105 JAPAN 105 TAIWAN 104 SINGAPORE 103 AUSTRIA 102 GERMANY 102 ITALY 102 NETHERLANDS 102 SWEDEN 101