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How Do You Recognize Someone Truly Intelligent?
There is only one characteristic that separates them from others.
Through the years, I’ve often seen articles on how one can tell whether someone is truly intelligent. All sorts of things come up. One of the latest is that Kim Kardashian has an IQ of 190. Um. Yes. Right. Kim is probably somewhere between 95 to 100. A bright spark, she is not!
These articles will mention things like their level of achievement, their excellent relationships with others, their willingness to take risks, and all sorts of things that have nothing to do with intelligence. Intelligence, by the way, is the ability to solve problems, and the degree to which one can solve problems is the degree to which one is truly intelligent or not.
So, for instance, one might certainly solve the problem of how to find an inexpensive hotel for the night, but can one solve the energy crises? Can one invent a new fuel? Is one able to see the kind of thing that other people cannot? Can one put into words what nobody else has been able to define?
Coming back to the piece of nonsense that Kim Kardashian has an IQ of 190, it’s surprising how many will believe that bit of bull. For the record, she failed two exams for Law 101 before passing on the third. Nobody with an IQ of 190 would fail such a minor exam. That information comes from a website that specializes in ‘testing’ people for a price. The bottom line is that unless someone does a recognized test with a recognized authority, it’s not possible to know their IQ.
Here’s something else to consider. Nobody knows what Einstein’s IQ was. At best, it’s a guess. Again, unless someone has actually sat an accepted IQ test, there is no way of knowing.
Here are two interesting bits of research. Finland wanted to know how smart business owners were. After testing a sufficient number to ensure that it was large enough to get a happy average, it turned out to be 115 — the high point of average.
