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WHAT’S YOUR IQ?

I don’t find it constructive to go there. as far as I know increases over 140 make little substantive difference, and decreases below 60 make no substantive difference. Above 140 and below 60 other personality factors (I consider IQ a personality factor) determine demonstrated intelligence.

For example, I can tell that, say, Chomsky (and many highly intelligent jews for that matter) can express ideas – which is a trait that starts at 105 and seems to flower at about 130 – and do it far better than I can. But this only lets him (like Wittgenstein and Marx) ‘get it wrong’ elegantly. However, those people can do that because their empathy for frames of reference is higher than mine. Whereas I don’t ‘pay that cost or gain that return’ because I can’t. Yet, conversely, I don’t make the errors that others that empathize with frames of reference do. But what I notice is that they matured emotionally earlier than I did (or I much later than they did). And I think that’s where their advantage played out over mine.

If you have a lot of general knowledge, an IQ over 105, and a no disruptive personality traits, and an interest in learning, you can pretty much learn the important concepts in this world. You may need to have 115 to learn them more easily, and 125 to learn them on your own, 135 to explain them, and 145 to discover them. Sure. But the ideas are available to you across the spectrum. It’s below 105 that we incrementally develop limitations, and below 95 where functional utility starts to rapidly decline.