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Savant was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ" from 1985 to 1989 [3] and entered the Guinness Book of World Records Hall of Fame in 1988. [3] [13] Guinness retired the "Highest IQ" category in 1990 after concluding IQ tests were too unreliable to designate a single record holder. [3] The listing drew nationwide ...
Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American horse rancher and former bar bouncer, known for scoring highly on an IQ test that gained him entry to a high IQ society, and for being formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records high IQ section under the pseudonym of Eric Hart, alongside Marilyn vos Savant and Keith Raniere ...
Kim Ung-Yong (Korean: 김웅용; born March 8, 1962) [1] is a South Korean civil engineer. During his youth, he was recognized as a child prodigy with the highest recorded IQ having scored above 210 on the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale, He entered university at the age of 4.
Isla McNabb became Mensa's youngest female member last year at just 2 years old. Her parents recently explained why they got her tested for the group.
Younghoon Kim, 35, from Korea, has the world’s highest recorded IQ, a staggering 276. To put this into context, the average IQ is around 100 with the threshold for genius standing at 140.
[33] [34] Although the MEGA test has been widely criticized as not having been properly validated, the 1989 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records (the last edition to include a category for highest IQ) [35] described the Mega Society as "the most exclusive ultrahigh IQ society", and the 1989 Australian edition identified Raniere ...
Here are seven players who definitely qualify as being really, really ridiculously smart.
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.