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This is an excellent question.But the answer to the question demands a complex answer and that is probably too much for most people to handle. But we can attempt to give a short summary.The reason the answer is complex is that we must understand what nonduallity is. By nonduality I understand it to be Not One! Not Two! Not Three! Not Many! i.e. Noncardinal. To understand nonduality we have to look at other nondual traditions like Taoism, Buddhism, DzogChen, Advita Vedanta, etc. When we do that we realize that Sufism is also in this class of spiritual teachings. Unfortunately Muslims based their theology on Jewish and Christian sources which were in turn based on Greek Philosophy and that means Greek Metaphysics. Aritotle's Metaphysics is specifically written against the Tetralemma (A, ~A, Both, Neither) by which Buddhism defines Emptiness, i.e. as something else than these logical possibilities. Thus the Western tradition has been dualist from the beginning, and since Islam is a heresy of the Western worldview it is assumed even by Muslims that it fits into the mould of Judaism and Christianity. But if we take note of the many nondual statements in the Quran you can see that it has a distinctive nondual strain that needs to be considered and which flowered in the History of Sufism.Sufism is nothing other than the consideration of the meaning of Islamic practices and beliefs under the rubic of Ihsan, i.e. concerning our individual relation to God, i.e. Allah. Therefore, to see the nonduality one has to place Islamic Sufism within the class of nondual spiritual practices and then explore their commonality with the other nondual spiritual ways within that class. When we do this we see almost immediately that Islam is more like Taoism, Buddhism and other nondual spiritual ways than it is like either Christianity or Judaism. This is an insight that most Muslims have not grasped because they mistakenly think of these various ways as idolatrous. So there is a basic impasse or blindspot within Islam itself in terms of its self-interpretation because like the West the Wahabis or Salifies have rejected Sufism as well as part of their reformation of Islam.Basically the only ones who can readily see the nonduality of Sufism are those that know something about some other nondual path and compare it to that other nondual path. Sufis themselves exacerbate this situation because they live in a bubble with all the Muslims thinking that the only thing that they can take into account has to come from the revelation of the Prophet Muhammad. They forget that Allah created everything including prior nondual spiritual ways of high sophistication by which we can judge the nondual content of Sufism. Thus Sufis do not study other nondual paths and because of that they mostly misunderstand Sufism itself believing the dualistic theologies that have been formulated on Greek models as the foundation of their understanding of who Allah is. Another problem in the way is Western orientalism that interprets Buddhism and other nondual ways based on models from Western philosophy. Orientalism is a scorge that needs to be rigorously avoided. We should not try to analyze nondual traditions based on Western philosophy as a standard. That standard is too low, but rather we must analyze nondual traditions based on nondual concepts that are indigenous to them, and the same is true of Sufism.The only way out of this conundrum that I know is to understand the nonduality that is embedded in the Western worldview itself which I call the homeward path. In order to see it we really need to do what Nagarguna did with logic to the Western worldview itself, i.e. see the emptiness within it that is intrinsic to it. Once we identify the part of the Western worldview which is intrinsically nondual hidden as the kernel within its core, cf Nondual Science Institute. then it is possible to begin to leverage our understanding of nonduality with respect to all nondual paths in relation to the structure of the Western tradition itself. Once we realize the kinship between the various nondual ways, and we see them in relation to the dualism of the Western worldiview and its nondual kernel then we can begin to understand how Sufism relates to the other nondual paths and begin to translate between them in a way that those of us embedded in the dualistic Western worldview can understand. In other words we can only understand nonduality based on templates from the Western worldview itself, and fortunately Plato built those templates into the core of the Western worldview which is the Divided Line and the Kinds of Knowledge that Aristotle identifies in his Ethics.An opening gambit is to realize that Being is a concept that only exists in Indo-european languages, and thus we need to translate out of this conceptual framework that sees everything in terms of Ontology, into an existential framework. Semitic Languages have existentials and do not have Being. Being is essentially what is called Illusion in other nondual frameworks. It goes under various names such as Maya, Mara, Dukkha, or Dunya. The revolt of Buddhism was against the Being (Sat) which was at the heart of Hinduism, this is why it was a heresy within the Hindu tradition. Islam does something similar within the Western tradition by establishing an approach to existence rather than Being via its language which is Arabic and in which the Existential is called Wajud, from which our term Existence came. Arabs already struggled with the Greek tradition and discovered that what is called Being in Aristotle is not the same as Wajud. They coined the technical term Kun to cover the surplus, but Kun means to Make, and thus is not the same as Being. So the first heresy of Islam in relation to the Western worldview is the rejection of Being as a basis for understanding the world. Existence as Wajud means Ecstasy and also what is Found. It is like the rock lying beside the road who no one cares about, it is that onto which we are not projecting illusions but is just there, but it exists as that which we find ourselves as what is just there.There is an ayat in Quran that says words to the effect that a mirage is seen in the desert, and you see a water and are thirsty, you go toward it and then you find nothing, and then it says There you find Allah. If we understand that Being is like a mirage of Maya, Mara, Dukkha, and Dunya, then what we find is where there is nothing, i.e. the Mirage is empty. Then it is precisely where we recognize the emptiness of Illusion that we find Allah.The teaching of Sufism is about how to find Allah amidst the nondual emptiness in the midst of the world, like the void that was said to be that out of which God created the world. This background of creation out of which creation has come plays little role in Greek based theologies. But in Islam there is an explicit recognition of it as the groundstate of everything that exists, for instance, in an ayat to the effect that everywhere you look, There is the face of Allah, and another that says Everything is in Annihilation except the Face of Allah. It seems that the Face of Allah is the original void prior to the creation, and that is what the world right now is like. Ar-Ramliyy and abu Mansour al Baghdadiy narrated the saying of Aliy bin abi Taleb: "Allah existed eternally without a place, and now He is as He was." The point of these quotes is that there is a sophisticated nondual logic employed in Quran and some hadith which has not been explored deeply enough, but which was the basis for Sufic practices and understanding of Islam for hundreds of years. Sufis took the Quran on its own merits, and took it without preconceptions as to Theology as derived from Greek sources. And by cleaving to the nondual statements in the Quran they developed their way toward understanding nonduality beyond all dualistic views of experience which we can find in their works, most famously Ibn al-Arabi. But unlike Buddhism there was no attempt to systematically develop nondual ways of looking at things such as we get in the various systems that we see in the Buddhist Sutras. Without a systematic way of thinking nondually there is no chance that we are going to appropriately interpret these sayings that are throughout the Quran and also appear in some the Hadith. However, we are alerted to the fact that Quran does contain a nondual Logic by the fact that Surah Iklas is worth 1/3 of the weight of the Quran. The reason for that is that Iklas contains the logic of the Quran. And that logic is counter to Aristotelian Logic in every way because it is what I have called a Logic of Disconnection. It can be explained it based on some of the things that Plato says which are very similar. But the Locus Classicus for this way of looking at things is contained in the book The Meaning of Man by Sidi Ali al-Jamal which is the closest thing to a working out of the logic of Opposites based on a logic of disconnection rather than connection like normal logic from Greek Sources. Our logic has to change if we are going to interpret the nondual statements in Quran in a way that is not self-contradictory and which allows us to understand them supra-rationally. Just as our syllogistic logic cannot handle mass pervasion logics that are used in China, and India, so to it is not going to understand a logic of disconnection which takes a position that is different from the nihilistic opposites of both Syllogism and Pervasion logics.The point of all this is just to indicate that many of our most basic presumptions need to be explored and changed in order to understand Sufism within the context of Islam. Islamic Sufism poses a challenge to those who embrace other nondual ways and are interested in the philosophy of Nonduality to interpret it. When we do that we find that it has characteristics similar to some of the most sophisticated expressions of nondual philosophy such as that of Fa Tsang of Hau Yen Buddhism or as that of Mipham and Manjushrimitra's understanding of DzogChen. And what makes it a challenge is that in some ways it seems even more sophisticated then these highest expressions of nondual philosophies. But unlike Buddhism in Tibet and China the Muslim Sufis did not develop Nondual Philosophies and thus making this comparison is very difficult because it entails interpretation of Sufic texts based on standards taken from other nondual traditions, and that is not an easy task. However, if we are interested in the nature of nonduality in general then that task becomes fascinating as it unfolds before us.The nondual interpretation of Sufism will be resisted by Muslims who hold on to Greek inspired Theologies. It will be resisted by Sufis who think that they cannot look beyond the revelations that God gave Muhammad for templates of understanding. It will be resisted by Western philosophers who want to look at everything through dualistic orientalist glasses. In fact the only people for whom this effort will find an audience is those who want to understand nonduality as deeply as possible, and the only way to do that is to compare nondual traditions with each other and to understand their basic dialectic throughout history that results in the comprehension of the difference between emptiness and void as two separate nonduals, and how their duality points to the possibility of the utterly nondual which is pointed to both by DzogChen and Hua Yen Buddhism. When we come to Sufism with this history in mind we find the Sufis addressing the question of the deeper nondualities and attempting to understand Allah in those terms rather than dualistic terms. This is a fascinating saga in human history which we can appreciate only if we have an overview of the development of nondual spiritual ways, and take their differences seriously. Sufism has something to contribute to the understanding of those differences which is fundamental and deep. And if we can appreciate that we will appreciate whatever nondual way that we cling to better and more deeply because the Sufis had a profound tradition which we are just now beginning to appreciate.

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ALL OF THE INFORMATION YOU’LL FIND IS ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS/MEANINGLESS BECAUSE THEY’RE BASED MOSTLY UPON LIES AND PRIDE, THE GULLIBLE PARTAKERS ARE DISPLAYING BEFORE THEIR ENTIRE WORLD; ALL FOR FEEDING THEIR EGOS, WHILE PUBLICLY BOASTING THEIR *MILITARY\INTELLIGENCE(*oxymoron/emphasis mine)! ANYWAYS THE “I.Q. TEST” VALUE IS EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF THE PUCKIES OF BULL! NEVERTHELESS, THEIR WEBSITE OFFERS A FREE I.Q. TEST AND A STEENKING BADGE! (yours, to proudly display, for all to see)BADGES, I DON’T NEED NO STEENKING BADGES! lol Not that I cared, but I usually get about a 124. they deliberately misspell words in the questionnaire, just to throw you off and most of the number problems are the same. that’s the trick. Thank you for you question, Senor Bruner. Feel free to keep the spanish lesson. On the casa.1. Get Your Score and Share ItYou have an IQ of 109>Me.IQ TestShow your friends how smart you are by placing an official badge on your blog, profile or forums! LOL LOL LOLDirections: Copy the code below and paste it wherever you'd like the badge to appear on your site.###why your IQ really doesn’t matter all that much.###The average person has an intelligence quotient of 100. An unsourced claim gives O. J. Simpson’s IQ as 89. Marilyn vos Savant has been cited in the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest measured IQ of 228, a number that can be sourced back to…Marilyn vos Savant. But Savant’s gifts to mankind’s progress include a “Dear Abby” style newspaper column, and a few books mostly compiled from this column.The first standardized attempt to measure the human’s mental capacity was courtesy of Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon, who formulated a test to measure verbal ability. Binet and Simon only wanted to use the test to find those children who suffered from mental retardation.Alfred Binet was a French psychologist best-remembered for developing the first widely used intelligence test. The test originated after the French government commissioned Binet to develop an instrument that could identify school kids that needed remedial studies. With his collaborator Theodore Simon, they created the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale. Lewis Terman later revised the scale and standardized the test with subjects drawn from an American sample and the test became known as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales.The test is still in use today and remains one of the most widely used intelligence tests.Best Known For:Simon-Binet Intelligence ScaleStanford-Binet IQ TestBirth and Death:Alfred Binet was born July 8, 1857 in Nice, France.He died on October 18, 1911.Alfred Binet's Early LifeAlfred Binet was born Alfredo Binetti. His father, a physician, and his mother, an artist, divorced when he was young and Binet then moved to Paris with his mother. After graduating from law school in 1878, Binet initially planned to follow in his father's footsteps and enroll in medical school. He began to study science at Sorbonne but soon began educating himself in psychology by reading works by individuals such as Charles Darwin and John Stuart Mill.Théodore Simon (10 July 1872 – 4 September 1961) was a French psychologist who worked with Alfred Binet to develop the Binet-Simon scale, one of the most widely used scales in the world for measuring intelligence. This scale was revised in 1908 and 1911, and served as a template for the development of newer scales. Simon worked at various hospitals throughout France, including Sainte-Anne[where?] and Dury-les-Amiens. He also worked as the head psychiatrist at Saint-Yon[where?] hospital and as a medical director at Perray-Vaucluse.[where?] He was also the founder of the first nursing school in psychiatry at the Maison Blanche hospital in Neuilly-sur-Marne, in 1946. The training institute which continues to this day bears his name.Théodore Simon was born on 10 July 1872 in Dijon, France. Simon's father worked as a railroad engineer for PLM.[1] His early life was filled with great loss of family members. After becoming orphaned, Simon lived with his uncle in Sens. Simon's older brother also died at the young age of 23.[1] During much of his early life, he was fascinated by Alfred Binet's work and constantly read his books. Simon was a medical doctor and was interested in questions of both philosophy and psychology. His interest in psychology continually increased, especially as the need for clinical experience in the field decreased.Once an average person reaches the age of 15 or so, the IQ test is no longer important, since the mental age has reached maturity. But an average child of 5 should have a mental age of 5. If that child has a mental age of 1, he has a below-average IQ.Extremely high scores are routinely inaccurate.Einstein once said that he did not like to clutter up his memory with facts and numbers that he could just look up in a dictionary.IQ tests were invented for the purpose of scoring children.It always starts innocuously enough with bullying, name-calling, and lording any advantage that can be found over a supposed inferior child. While the children with high IQs are usually deemed the nerds of a group and picked on by the larger, and usually dumber, bullies, the nerds frequently pick on each other as well. Size may not matter, but the group that knows everything about Star Trek will publicly ridicule the individual who wants to fit in but can’t.Children are mean. They require maturity to grow out of this, and though good parenting is essential, it really only stops with age. This is why parents are usually told that it is a better idea not to inform their children of their IQs. If it’s even one point below the arbitrary average of 100, the child will feel inferior. If it’s well above average, the child will likely lord it over his peers. If it is average, the child will probably still feel inferior.But then, adults seem to take their IQs very seriously—when it’s in their favor. We have groups around the world like Mensa, the Triple Nine Society, the Prometheus Society, and the Mega Society. The last of these is said to be the most exclusive intellect club in the world. Applicants must score at least 171 on the Standford-Binet test to be accepted. Mensa requires “only” a 132. But what good is it to be a member? The Mega Society does very little that can be described as helpful. They have meetings now and then around the world, and at these meetings, the members just schmooze and congratulate each other.The Internet, and so-called “experts” before it, have long propagated some theoretical, famously high IQs across history. They are, of course, utter conjecture, since the IQ, as a notion of measured intellect, and its tests have only been around since the turn of the 20th Century. But if you google “famous high iqs,” you’ll find well known webpage(s) claiming that on the scale that measures an average as 100, and Einstein’s as 160, Leonardo da Vinci “scored” 220. That’s an outright lie for a number of reasons: da Vinci didn’t score anything on a test that had yet to be invented; he might have had a 220, but not because the webpage says so—nobody knows; the numbers on these sites seem to be estimates based on the person’s significance to history, as well as the diversity of their exploits.So in terms of vocabulary, would Shakespeare have a higher IQ than Ernest Hemingway, because Shakespeare uses bigger words in his work? Hemingway had this to say about it, “William Faulkner is of the opinion that because I do not use the 10 dollar words, I don’t know them. Well, we both have Nobel Prizes, so I assure you, I do. But there are older ones, simpler ones, better ones, and those are the ones I use.”And how do we measure the IQ of Ludwig van Beethoven? He was good at music, but not good at mathematics. His mathematical education stopped at arithmetic. He couldn’t even do intermediate algebra. If he were to take the test, he would probably score low, but the absence of math and science from his mind didn’t hurt his career much. Charles Dickens is said to have had a 180 IQ. Why? Because Nicholas Nickleby is a good story? It is impossible to judge this literature as better than that (within reason), because all liberal arts are subjective endeavors. Justin Bieber has a lot of fans, and a lot of them probably think his music is better than Mozart’s.Is it fair to say that Stephen Hawking’s estimated 160 deserves to be lower than Isaac Newton’s 190? They both worked in the same fields. But Newton “created” the calculus. Hawking simply works with it. Is that worth a 30 point drop? Andy Warhol was a rather good painter for someone with an 86, although to be fair, he may have answered the questions wrong on purpose, in protest. Who was smarter, Warhol or Jackson Pollock?Einstein is typically remembered as a poor student when he was young, but that is grossly unfair. By the time he graduated from high school, Einstein had made his poorest showing how fast he answered questions. The German teachers were trained to drill the knowledge into the students by rote, and this was not how Einstein’s brain worked. When asked a question, he thought for a while to remember the answer, then thought some more to be sure of it. This was all it took to come close to failing several times, but he never did. His teachers considered him retarded. One of them just shook his head while Einstein was thinking and said, “Einstein, you will never amount to anything!”Most IQ tests are timed, which means your speed is part of the score. Even if you answer every question correctly, your slow speed will pull your IQ down a few points, sometimes many. But is speed important in life? If you’re an astronaut working calculus to correct your decaying reentry trajectory before you burn to death, time is more than money, but how many of us will experience such a problem in life? And besides, why not get the math right before you reenter?Of course intelligence is rather important to life as a human, and the higher one’s is, the better, but only if it is put to good use. The film Good Will Hunting deals with this requirement to use one’s “gift” for the improvement of mankind and the world. Everyone knows Einstein was a genius. But is he famous because of his 186 IQ? Or did his papers on Relativity and the photoelectric effect have anything to do with it? He was also rather involved in the creation of the atomic bomb. Time Magazine calls him the Man of the 20th Century.Ever heard of William James Sidis? He lived from 1898 to 1944 and is reputed to have had a “ratio IQ” between 250 and 300. This IQ is a matter of very heated debate to this day, because the sources don’t agree and all of them are hearsay. There is, however, no doubt that he had an extremely fast aptitude for learning anything. By his 20s, he was able to speak in over 40 languages, and claimed to be able to learn one in a day. He invented his own language, called Vendergood, which was a mishmash of Ancient Greek, Latin, and about 8 other European languages. J. R. R. Tolkien did the very same thing with Elvish, and spoke at least 30 languages. But we don’t think of Tolkien as having an IQ above 250, and yet he wrote a lot more than Sidis, and Tolkien’s literature is popular. Sidis invented a rotary calendar that would always be accurate even to the leap year. But why is that important? We already have working calendars. With a 300 IQ, it’s a shame he didn’t invent the time machine or a real lightsaber.Rene Descartes, probably another high IQ holder, famously wrote, “Cogito, ergo sum.” “I think, therefore, I am.” While this lister definitely agrees, he has always thought of this statement as incomplete. William Sidis proves it. He squandered his natural talents on the trivial. Einstein reached the heights of his greatness with “only” a 186. What could Sir Isaac Newton have done with a 300? Perhaps the phrase should be, “Cogito, ergo sum. Facio, ergo recordaremur.” “I think, therefore I am. I do, therefore I will be remembered.”FlameHorse is a writer for Listverse. He has no idea what his IQ is.Mensa is the largest, oldest, and best-known high-IQ society in the world. The organization restricts its membership to people with high testable IQs. Specifically, potential members must score within the top 2% (at or above the 98th percentile) of any approved standardized intelligence test.The Pars Society Pars Society was founded in 2002 by Baran Yönter as a high intelligence society.The Giga Society The Giga society is the world's most exclusive High-IQ society. At least this is the case if you make "having one or more members" a part of the definition of "society". An IQ of 196 or higher is required to join.International High IQ Society The 2nd largest high-IQ organisation in the world. Membership in the International High IQ Society is open to persons who have an IQ in the top five percent of the population and who want to be part of our global community. There is no other qualification for membership.The Mega Foundation The Mega Foundation is a tax-exempt non-profit charitable organization established to create and implement programs that aid in the development of severely gifted individuals and their ideas. The Mega Foundation also supports and develops innovative projects, in the arts and sciences, based solely upon the merit of the projects and the vision of their creators.The Cerebals Society Cerebrals Society is an international society for people who have a documented IQ score of at least 144 sd16 from standardized, professional tests of intelligence only. This means that membership is open for the top 0.3% of people along the IQ spectrum.The Prometheus Society The Prometheus Society was established in 1982 by philosopher Ronald K. Hoeflin, Ph.D. (see picture) to promote fellowship among individuals with extremely high intelligence.Mysterium Mysterium is not just another high IQ society. Mysterium is not something you join, receive a certificate to hang on the wall, then vegetate. Mysterium is not for the "average genius" with a pocket full of ideals and nothing to show for it. Mysterium is beyond outer space, inner space, and cyberspace. Mysterium is a nurturing, stimulating, and inspiring "growth link" to human creativity, ingenuity, and originality that is undergirded by experience and productivity.The Triple Nine Society The Triple Nine Society is committed to friendship, communication, the adventure of intellectual exploration, and a greater realization of individual potentials. It neither sanctions the imposition of one person's philosophy on another nor subscribes to any particular philosophy for its members.1. Get Your Score and Share ItYou have an IQ of 109IQ TestShow your friends how smart you are by placing an official badge on your blog, profile or forums!Directions: Copy the code below and paste it wherever you'd like the badge to appear on your site.<a href="Free IQ Test - Fast, Free and Accurate Online IQ Test" title="IQ Test"><img src="" width="200" height="100" alt="IQ Test" border="0"></a><br/><a title="IQ Test" href="Free IQ Test - Fast, Free and Accurate Online IQ Test">IQ Test</a>2. See Which Questions You MissedClick here for the answers -- Want to try again? Take the IQ Test again3. Recommend the Test to Your FriendsHelp us keep our IQ Test free by sharing it with your less intelligent friends:Home | Contact Us | Links | Privacy Policy | SitemapCopyright © 2017 Free IQ Test - Fast, Free and Accurate Online IQ TestIntelligence Interval Cognitive Designation40 - 54 Severely challenged (Less than 1% of test takers)55 - 69 Challenged (2.3% of test takers)70 - 84 Below average85 - 114 Average (68% of test takers)115 - 129 Above average130 - 144 Gifted (2.3% of test takers)145 - 159 Genius (Less than 1% of test takers)160 - 175 Extraordinary geniusEstimated IQs of some of the Greatest GeniusesName Nationality Description IQJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Germany Poet/Writer. Universal genius. 210Emanuel Swedenborg Sweden Religious writer. Universal genius. 205Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Germany Philosopher/Mathematician, etc. The greatest universal genius together with Leonardo da Vinci. 205John Stuart Mill England Philosopher/Economist/Political theorist 200Blaise Pascal France Mathematician/Physicist/Religious thinker 195Ludwig Wittgenstein Austria Philosopher 190Bobby Fischer U.S.A. Chess player 187Galileo Galilei Italy Physicist/Astronomer/Philosopher 185René Descartes France Philosopher/Mathematician 180Madame De Stael France Woman of letters/Novelist/Political Philosopher 180Immanuel Kant Germany Philosopher 175Sofia Kovalevskaya Russia/Sweden Mathematician/Writer 170Thomas Chatterton England Poet/Writer 170Charles Darwin England Naturalist 165Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austria Composer 165Albert Einstein Germany Mathematician/Physicist 161George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) England Writer - Close friend to J.S. Mill. 160Nicolaus Copernicus Poland Cleric/Astronomer 160Rembrandt van Rijn Holland Painter/Etcher 155George Sand (Aurore Dupin) France Writer 150Alfred Binet was a French psychologist best-remembered for developing the first widely used intelligence test.The test originated after the French government commissioned Binet to develop an instrument that couldidentify school kids that needed remedial studies. With his collaborator Theodore Simon, they created theBinet-Simon Intelligence Scale. Lewis Terman later revised the scale and standardized the test with subjectsdrawn from an American sample and the test became known as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales.The test is still in use today and remains one of the most widely used intelligence tests.Best Known For:Simon-Binet Intelligence ScaleStanford-Binet IQ TestBirth and Death:Alfred Binet was born July 8, 1857 in Nice, France.He died on October 18, 1911.Alfred Binet's Early LifeAlfred Binet was born Alfredo Binetti. His father, a physician, and his mother, an artist, divorced when hewas young and Binet then moved to Paris with his mother. After graduating from law school in 1878, Binetinitially planned to follow in his father's footsteps and enroll in medical school. He began to study scienceat Sorbonne but soon began educating himself in psychology by reading works by individuals such as CharlesDarwin and John Stuart Mill.Théodore Simon (10 July 1872 – 4 September 1961) was a French psychologist who worked with Alfred Binet todevelop the Binet-Simon scale, one of the most widely used scales in the world for measuring intelligence.This scale was revised in 1908 and 1911, and served as a template for the development of newer scales. Simonworked at various hospitals throughout France, including Sainte-Anne[where?] and Dury-les-Amiens. He alsoworked as the head psychiatrist at Saint-Yon[where?] hospital and as a medical director at Perray-Vaucluse.[where?] He was also the founder of the first nursing school in psychiatry at the Maison Blanche hospital inNeuilly-sur-Marne, in 1946. The training institute which continues to this day bears his name.Théodore Simon was born on 10 July 1872 in Dijon, France. Simon's father worked as a railroad engineer forPLM.[1] His early life was filled with great loss of family members. After becoming orphaned, Simon lived withhis uncle in Sens. Simon's older brother also died at the young age of 23.[1] During much of his early life,he was fascinated by Alfred Binet's work and constantly read his books. Simon was a medical doctor and wasinterested in questions of both philosophy and psychology. His interest in psychology continually increased,especially as the need for clinical experience in the field decreased.Once an average person reaches the age of 15 or so, the IQ test is no longer important, since the mental agehas reached maturity. But an average child of 5 should have a mental age of 5. If that child has a mental ageof 1, he has a below-average IQ.Extremely high scores are routinely inaccurate.Einstein once said that he did not like to clutter up his memory with facts and numbers that he could justlook up in a dictionary.IQ tests were invented for the purpose of scoring children.It always starts innocuously enough with bullying, name-calling, and lording any advantage that can be foundover a supposed inferior child. While the children with high IQs are usually deemed the nerds of a group andpicked on by the larger, and usually dumber, bullies, the nerds frequently pick on each other as well. Sizemay not matter, but the group that knows everything about Star Trek will publicly ridicule the individual whowants to fit in but can’t.Children are mean. They require maturity to grow out of this, and though good parenting is essential, itreally only stops with age. This is why parents are usually told that it is a better idea not to inform theirchildren of their IQs. If it’s even one point below the arbitrary average of 100, the child will feelinferior. If it’s well above average, the child will likely lord it over his peers. If it is average, thechild will probably still feel inferior.But then, adults seem to take their IQs very seriously—when it’s in their favor. We have groups around theworld like Mensa, the Triple Nine Society, the Prometheus Society, and the Mega Society. The last of these issaid to be the most exclusive intellect club in the world. Applicants must score at least 171 on theStandford-Binet test to be accepted. Mensa requires “only” a 132. But what good is it to be a member? The MegaSociety does very little that can be described as helpful. They have meetings now and then around the world,and at these meetings, the members just schmooze and congratulate each other.The Internet, and so-called “experts” before it, have long propagated some theoretical, famously high IQsacross history. They are, of course, utter conjecture, since the IQ, as a notion of measured intellect, andits tests have only been around since the turn of the 20th Century. But if you google “famous high iqs,” you’ll find well known webpage(s) claiming that on the scale that measures an average as 100, and Einstein’s as160, Leonardo da Vinci “scored” 220. That’s an outright lie for a number of reasons: da Vinci didn’t scoreanything on a test that had yet to be invented; he might have had a 220, but not because the webpage says so—nobody knows; the numbers on these sites seem to be estimates based on the person’s significance to history,as well as the diversity of their exploits.So in terms of vocabulary, would Shakespeare have a higher IQ than Ernest Hemingway, because Shakespeare usesbigger words in his work? Hemingway had this to say about it, “William Faulkner is of the opinion that becauseI do not use the 10 dollar words, I don’t know them. Well, we both have Nobel Prizes, so I assure you, I do.But there are older ones, simpler ones, better ones, and those are the ones I use.”And how do we measure the IQ of Ludwig van Beethoven? He was good at music, but not good at mathematics. Hismathematical education stopped at arithmetic. He couldn’t even do intermediate algebra. If he were to take thetest, he would probably score low, but the absence of math and science from his mind didn’t hurt his careermuch. Charles Dickens is said to have had a 180 IQ. Why? Because Nicholas Nickleby is a good story? It isimpossible to judge this literature as better than that (within reason), because all liberal arts aresubjective endeavors. Justin Bieber has a lot of fans, and a lot of them probably think his music is betterthan Mozart’s.Is it fair to say that Stephen Hawking’s estimated 160 deserves to be lower than Isaac Newton’s 190? They bothworked in the same fields. But Newton “created” the calculus. Hawking simply works with it. Is that worth a 30point drop? Andy Warhol was a rather good painter for someone with an 86, although to be fair, he may haveanswered the questions wrong on purpose, in protest. Who was smarter, Warhol or Jackson Pollock?Einstein is typically remembered as a poor student when he was young, but that is grossly unfair. By the timehe graduated from high school, Einstein had made his poorest showing how fast he answered questions. TheGerman teachers were trained to drill the knowledge into the students by rote, and this was not how Einstein’sbrain worked. When asked a question, he thought for a while to remember the answer, then thought some more tobe sure of it. This was all it took to come close to failing several times, but he never did. His teachersconsidered him retarded. One of them just shook his head while Einstein was thinking and said, “Einstein, youwill never amount to anything!”Most IQ tests are timed, which means your speed is part of the score. Even if you answer every questioncorrectly, your slow speed will pull your IQ down a few points, sometimes many. But is speed important inlife? If you’re an astronaut working calculus to correct your decaying reentry trajectory before you burn todeath, time is more than money, but how many of us will experience such a problem in life? And besides, whynot get the math right before you reenter?Of course intelligence is rather important to life as a human, and the higher one’s is, the better, but onlyif it is put to good use. The film Good Will Hunting deals with this requirement to use one’s “gift” for theimprovement of mankind and the world. Everyone knows Einstein was a genius. But is he famous because of his186 IQ? Or did his papers on Relativity and the photoelectric effect have anything to do with it? He was alsorather involved in the creation of the atomic bomb. Time Magazine calls him the Man of the 20th Century.Ever heard of William James Sidis? He lived from 1898 to 1944 and is reputed to have had a “ratio IQ” between250 and 300. This IQ is a matter of very heated debate to this day, because the sources don’t agree and all ofthem are hearsay. There is, however, no doubt that he had an extremely fast aptitude for learning anything. Byhis 20s, he was able to speak in over 40 languages, and claimed to be able to learn one in a day. He inventedhis own language, called Vendergood, which was a mishmash of Ancient Greek, Latin, and about 8 other Europeanlanguages. J. R. R. Tolkien did the very same thing with Elvish, and spoke at least 30 languages. But we don’tthink of Tolkien as having an IQ above 250, and yet he wrote a lot more than Sidis, and Tolkien’s literatureis popular. Sidis invented a rotary calendar that would always be accurate even to the leap year. But why isthat important? We already have working calendars. With a 300 IQ, it’s a shame he didn’t invent the timemachine or a real lightsaber.Rene Descartes, probably another high IQ holder, famously wrote, “Cogito, ergo sum.” “I think, therefore, Iam.” While this lister definitely agrees, he has always thought of this statement as incomplete. William Sidisproves it. He squandered his natural talents on the trivial. Einstein reached the heights of his greatnesswith “only” a 186. What could Sir Isaac Newton have done with a 300? Perhaps the phrase should be, “Cogito,ergo sum. Facio, ergo recordaremur.” “I think, therefore I am. I do, therefore I will be remembered.”FlameHorse is a writer for Listverse. He has no idea what his IQ is.Mensa is the largest, oldest, and best-known high-IQ society in the world. The organization restrictsits membership to people with high testable IQs. Specifically, potential members must score within the top 2%(at or above the 98th percentile) of any approved standardized intelligence test.The Pars Society Pars Society was founded in 2002 by Baran Yönter as a high intelligence society.The Giga Society The Giga society is the world's most exclusive High-IQ society. At least this is thecase if you make "having one or more members" a part of the definition of "society". An IQ of 196 or higher isrequired to join.International High IQ Society The 2nd largest high-IQ organisation in the world. Membership in theInternational High IQ Society is open to persons who have an IQ in the top five percent of the population andwho want to be part of our global community. There is no other qualification for membership.The Mega Foundation The Mega Foundation is a tax-exempt non-profit charitable organization established tocreate and implement programs that aid in the development of severely gifted individuals and their ideas. TheMega Foundation also supports and develops innovative projects, in the arts and sciences, based solely uponthe merit of the projects and the vision of their creators.The Cerebals Society Cerebrals Society is an international society for people who have a documented IQscore of at least 144 sd16 from standardized, professional tests of intelligence only. This means thatmembership is open for the top 0.3% of people along the IQ spectrum.The Prometheus Society The Prometheus Society was established in 1982 by philosopher Ronald K. Hoeflin, Ph.D.(see picture) to promote fellowship among individuals with extremely high intelligence.Mysterium Mysterium is not just another high IQ society. Mysterium is not something you join, receive acertificate to hang on the wall, then vegetate. Mysterium is not for the "average genius" with a pocket fullof ideals and nothing to show for it. Mysterium is beyond outer space, inner space, and cyberspace. Mysteriumis a nurturing, stimulating, and inspiring "growth link" to human creativity, ingenuity, and originality thatis undergirded by experience and productivity.The Triple Nine Society The Triple Nine Society is committed to friendship, communication, the adventure ofintellectual exploration, and a greater realization of individual potentials. 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Recommend the Test to Your FriendsHelp us keep our IQ Test free by sharing it with your less intelligent friends:Home | Contact Us | Links | Privacy Policy | SitemapCopyright © 2017 Free IQ Test - Fast, Free and Accurate Online IQ TestIntelligence Interval Cognitive Designation40 - 54 Severely challenged (Less than 1% of test takers)55 - 69 Challenged (2.3% of test takers)70 - 84 Below average85 - 114 Average (68% of test takers)115 - 129 Above average130 - 144 Gifted (2.3% of test takers)145 - 159 Genius (Less than 1% of test takers)160 - 175 Extraordinary geniusEstimated IQs of some of the Greatest GeniusesName Nationality Description IQJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Germany Poet/Writer. Universal genius. 210Emanuel Swedenborg Sweden Religious writer. Universal genius. 205Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Germany Philosopher/Mathematician, etc. The greatest universal genius togetherwith Leonardo da Vinci. 205John Stuart Mill England Philosopher/Economist/Political theorist 200Blaise Pascal France Mathematician/Physicist/Religious thinker 195Ludwig Wittgenstein Austria Philosopher 190Bobby Fischer U.S.A. Chess player 187Galileo Galilei Italy Physicist/Astronomer/Philosopher 185René Descartes France Philosopher/Mathematician 180Madame De Stael France Woman of letters/Novelist/Political Philosopher 180Immanuel Kant Germany Philosopher 175Sofia Kovalevskaya Russia/Sweden Mathematician/Writer 170Thomas Chatterton England Poet/Writer 170Charles Darwin England Naturalist 165Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austria Composer 165Albert Einstein Germany Mathematician/Physicist 161George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) England Writer - Close friend to J.S. 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I dislike being the bearer of bad tidings. I just found this out; earlier this evening and need to share this information with you. The one statement in the founders’ I.Q. test theory, is it’s original intended purpose and the mystery in how it was possible to attain the I.Q.’s of people, who have long since come and gone? well, read for yourself, if you’d like. I know that I wouldn’t feel comfortable, scrolling past any question; regarding the validity of the I.Q./test. Please share if you’d like.Simon-Binet Intelligence ScaleStanford-Binet IQ TestBirth and Death:Alfred Binet was born July 8, 1857 in Nice, France.He died on October 18, 1911.Alfred Binet's Early LifeAlfred Binet was born Alfredo Binetti. His father, a physician, and his mother, an artist, divorced when he was young and Binet then moved to Paris with his mother. After graduating from law school in 1878, Binet initially planned to follow in his father's footsteps and enroll in medical school. He began to study science at Sorbonne but soon began educating himself in psychology by reading works by individuals such as Charles Darwin and John Stuart Mill.Théodore Simon (10 July 1872 – 4 September 1961) was a French psychologist who worked with Alfred Binet to develop the Binet-Simon scale, one of the most widely used scales in the world for measuring intelligence. This scale was revised in 1908 and 1911, and served as a template for the development of newer scales. Simon worked at various hospitals throughout France, including Sainte-Anne[where?] and Dury-les-Amiens. He also worked as the head psychiatrist at Saint-Yon[where?] hospital and as a medical director at Perray-Vaucluse.[where?] He was also the founder of the first nursing school in psychiatry at the Maison Blanche hospital in Neuilly-sur-Marne, in 1946. The training institute which continues to this day bears his name.Théodore Simon was born on 10 July 1872 in Dijon, France. Simon's father worked as a railroad engineer for PLM.[1] His early life was filled with great loss of family members. After becoming orphaned, Simon lived with his uncle in Sens. Simon's older brother also died at the young age of 23.[1] During much of his early life, he was fascinated by Alfred Binet's work and constantly read his books. Simon was a medical doctor and was interested in questions of both philosophy and psychology. His interest in psychology continually increased, especially as the need for clinical experience in the field decreased.Once an average person reaches the age of 15 or so, the IQ test is no longer important, since the mental age has reached maturity. But an average child of 5 should have a mental age of 5. If that child has a mental age of 1, he has a below-average IQ.Extremely high scores are routinely inaccurate.Einstein once said that he did not like to clutter up his memory with facts and numbers that he could just look up in a dictionary.IQ tests were invented for the purpose of scoring children.Humans8 Reasons The IQ Is MeaninglessThe average person has an intelligence quotient of 100. An unsourced claim gives O. J. Simpson’s IQ as 89. Marilyn vos Savant has been cited in the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest measured IQ of 228, a number that can be sourced back to…Marilyn vos Savant. But Savant’s gifts to mankind’s progress include a “Dear Abby” style newspaper column, and a few books mostly compiled from this column. Here are eight reasons why your IQ really doesn’t matter all that much.8Original PurposeintelliThe first standardized attempt to measure the human’s mental capacity was courtesy of Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon, who formulated a test to measure verbal ability. Binet and Simon only wanted to use the test to find those children who suffered from mental retardation. This experiment was furthered by William Stern in 1912 to compare a child’s mental age with his or her chronological age. Stern coined the term “intelligence quotient.” The score is calculated by dividing the mental age by the chronological age, then multiplying the quotient by 100. If a child of 10 years old has a mental age of 5, his IQ is 50. Determining his mental age is the difficult part.Once an average person reaches the age of 15 or so, the IQ test is no longer important, since the mental age has reached maturity. But an average child of 5 should have a mental age of 5. If that child has a mental age of 1, he has a below-average IQ. The two most popular tests used today are the Weschler and the Standford-Binet. On the latter, Albert Einstein (who will make quite a few appearances in this list) scored a now famous 186 as a child. On the former, the same score registers as a 160. The problem with either number is that the tests were not originally conceived for the purpose of scoring this high.Extremely high scores are routinely inaccurate. 180 on the Standford-Binet is typically the top of the scale, and anything measured over it has few precedents for comparison and should be taken with a grain of salt. Suffice to say, the test-taker has a high degree of adaptability, versatility, and fast retention of information. But is a 186 “smarter” than a 176?All the various tests can do is discover the very low scorers among children, and these scores are quite accurate. The difference between a 79 and a 69 is highly noticeable, and the test can determine which is which and the reasons why. Given our current understanding of intelligence, the only feasible method by which to score extremely high IQs accurately is to make the questions harder. Spatial reasoning diagrams have many more moving parts and last longer; jumbled words are longer; arithmetical sequences have more gaps. But if you can perform these mental feats on simple challenges, the only difference between them and the more difficult ones is the time you require to solve them. If so, then disregarding the time you need to finish the test, your score ought to be the same. You did the same kind of work. If you deserve a bonus for the extra difficulty, then your score has become arbitrary.7Unfair2010-05-10 Klein BottleQuite a few IQ tests measure “general knowledge.” Here’s an actual IQ question this lister came across when he was 5: “What color is an apple?” Well, the only apples this lister had seen in his first 5 years were green. Got that one wrong. There are quite a few colors of apples. Some are more than one color. Mensa’s test includes questions like, “2D is to mobius strip as 3D is to ______.” Google says the answer is “Klein bottle.” Now that we know, are we smarter? Einstein once said that he did not like to clutter up his memory with facts and numbers that he could just look up in a dictionary.As general knowledge goes, the intent is to ask questions to which everyone on Earth, at an age of 5, should know the answers. There are some questions that fit the bill, like “What is 2 + 2?” but does a correct answer to this question indicate a higher mental capacity in the child? IQ tests have historically tried to eliminate all unfairness, and the only way to do so is to eliminate “general knowledge” questions. One question ths lister encountered on the Internet is, “If you unscramble the letters in CIFAIPC, you would have what?” The choices include the correct answer, “ocean.” This question measures vocabulary, reading, and visual reasoning. But suppose the person taking the test understands English and yet has never heard of the Pacific Ocean.6Bragging RightsSmartkidsIQ tests were invented for the purpose of scoring children. We all know that children require a lot of parental discipline to ensure they don’t grow up to be criminals. It always starts innocuously enough with bullying, name-calling, and lording any advantage that can be found over a supposed inferior child. While the children with high IQs are usually deemed the nerds of a group and picked on by the larger, and usually dumber, bullies, the nerds frequently pick on each other as well. Size may not matter, but the group that knows everything about Star Trek will publicly ridicule the individual who wants to fit in but can’t.Children are mean. They require maturity to grow out of this, and though good parenting is essential, it really only stops with age. This is why parents are usually told that it is a better idea not to inform their children of their IQs. If it’s even one point below the arbitrary average of 100, the child will feel inferior. If it’s well above average, the child will likely lord it over his peers. If it is average, the child will probably still feel inferior.But then, adults seem to take their IQs very seriously—when it’s in their favor. We have groups around the world like Mensa, the Triple Nine Society, the Prometheus Society, and the Mega Society. The last of these is said to be the most exclusive intellect club in the world. Applicants must score at least 171 on the Standford-Binet test to be accepted. Mensa requires “only” a 132. But what good is it to be a member? The Mega Society does very little that can be described as helpful. They have meetings now and then around the world, and at these meetings, the members just schmooze and congratulate each other. More on this at #1.5CreativityJustin-Bieber-ThreatsThe Internet, and so-called “experts” before it, have long propagated some theoretical, famously high IQs across history. They are, of course, utter conjecture, since the IQ, as a notion of measured intellect, and its tests have only been around since the turn of the 20th Century. But if you google “famous high iqs,” you’ll find well known webpage(s) claiming that on the scale that measures an average as 100, and Einstein’s as 160, Leonardo da Vinci “scored” 220. That’s an outright lie for a number of reasons: da Vinci didn’t score anything on a test that had yet to be invented; he might have had a 220, but not because the webpage says so—nobody knows; the numbers on these sites seem to be estimates based on the person’s significance to history, as well as the diversity of their exploits.Everyone knows da Vinci had his hand in everything. But is that why Einstein scores lower at 160? Einstein is less creative? If you think it’s difficult to measure intellect in terms of the black-and-white mathematics and sciences, imagine measuring a person’s skill in liberal arts. You pick the single genre of the arts. Let us say “literature.” The tests usually measure skill in spatial reasoning, reading, vocabulary, arthmetic, memory and sometimes general knowledge. So in terms of vocabulary, would Shakespeare have a higher IQ than Ernest Hemingway, because Shakespeare uses bigger words in his work? Hemingway had this to say about it, “William Faulkner is of the opinion that because I do not use the 10 dollar words, I don’t know them. Well, we both have Nobel Prizes, so I assure you, I do. But there are older ones, simpler ones, better ones, and those are the ones I use.”And how do we measure the IQ of Ludwig van Beethoven? He was good at music, but not good at mathematics. His mathematical education stopped at arithmetic. He couldn’t even do intermediate algebra. If he were to take the test, he would probably score low, but the absence of math and science from his mind didn’t hurt his career much. Charles Dickens is said to have had a 180 IQ. Why? Because Nicholas Nickleby is a good story? It is impossible to judge this literature as better than that (within reason), because all liberal arts are subjective endeavors. Justin Bieber has a lot of fans, and a lot of them probably think his music is better than Mozart’s.Is it fair to say that Stephen Hawking’s estimated 160 deserves to be lower than Isaac Newton’s 190? They both worked in the same fields. But Newton “created” the calculus. Hawking simply works with it. Is that worth a 30 point drop? Andy Warhol was a rather good painter for someone with an 86, although to be fair, he may have answered the questions wrong on purpose, in protest. Who was smarter, Warhol or Jackson Pollock?4Speed IrrelevantAtomic-ClockEinstein is typically remembered as a poor student when he was young, but that is grossly unfair. By the time he graduated from high school, Einstein had made his poorest showing how fast he answered questions. The German teachers were trained to drill the knowledge into the students by rote, and this was not how Einstein’s brain worked. When asked a question, he thought for a while to remember the answer, then thought some more to be sure of it. This was all it took to come close to failing several times, but he never did. His teachers considered him retarded. One of them just shook his head while Einstein was thinking and said, “Einstein, you will never amount to anything!”Most IQ tests are timed, which means your speed is part of the score. Even if you answer every question correctly, your slow speed will pull your IQ down a few points, sometimes many. But is speed important in life? If you’re an astronaut working calculus to correct your decaying reentry trajectory before you burn to death, time is more than money, but how many of us will experience such a problem in life? And besides, why not get the math right before you reenter?3Einstein ProblemEinstein-1894 Approx-Young-SizedWe know by now that the popular legend of Einstein the F-student is not true. He never flunked a course in his life, and in high school, he got very good grades. But for someone who redefined the entire 20th Century, whose last name has become a byword for “genius,” you would expect straight As, and Einstein did not get them. His report card for junior/senior year in high school is well know across the Internet, and it shows grades of 6, or A, in algebra, geometry, applied geometry, physics, and history. He scored 5 in chemistry, Italian, and German, a 3 in French, and 4 in geography and art. Most of them fair grades, but then, his strongest suits are obvious.IQ tests typically measure the scientific and mathematical disciplines very well because you’re either right or wrong. There is no gray area. In this regard, it makes sense why Einstein would score a 186. He had a lot of talent for math. But while in elementary and middle schools, he scored a solid 3 to 4, or about a C, in most linguistic subjects, even his own language. If the test he took was balanced, with focus given to the liberal arts, his scores in these subjects certainly pulled his overall score down, which means his mathematical brain probably scored a lot higher than 186. On top of all this, Einstein failed his entrance exam to get into the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School. He aced the math and science sections, but failed French, Italian, history, and geography. He had to spend a year in a run-of-the-mill vocational college until they let him retake the exam. So how can we trust the single number?2Definitionboxing-gloves-picturesIf Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali were to have taken the same IQ test, which one would have scored higher? Ali seems the more reasonable answer, but this is strange inasmuch as we know very little of the mens’ intellectual capabilities. They didn’t work in mathematics or mechanical engineering. They were boxers. They made millions by beating people up. Ali won two of their three encounters, but don’t count Frazier as a footnote to Ali’s glory. Frazier was the only man to beat Ali in his prime. He did it on points and he knocked Ali down.What do you think Frazier would have scored on an IQ test? An average 100? But a high IQ doesn’t enable a person like Einstein to box well. Einstein had no desire to box, or do very much that is physical. Perhaps it is fair to say that there is such a thing as a “physical IQ.” Boxing is a sport of motor skills. These are controlled by the brain, and some people are born with an incredible knack for refining them with ease. Franz Liszt had extreme motor skills in his hands and feet.If two boxers train in the same way, and one of them very quickly learns how to duck, jab, dance, and counterpunch, while the other simply can’t get it, we see the existence of “talent.” IQ tests are used to measure universal truths in mental acuity. Is it fair to say that the boxer with more aptitude for the sport is the more intelligent of the two? IQ tests do not root out such natural prodigies.1Intellect Alone?IntelligenceOf course intelligence is rather important to life as a human, and the higher one’s is, the better, but only if it is put to good use. The film Good Will Hunting deals with this requirement to use one’s “gift” for the improvement of mankind and the world. Everyone knows Einstein was a genius. But is he famous because of his 186 IQ? Or did his papers on Relativity and the photoelectric effect have anything to do with it? He was also rather involved in the creation of the atomic bomb. Time Magazine calls him the Man of the 20th Century.Ever heard of William James Sidis? He lived from 1898 to 1944 and is reputed to have had a “ratio IQ” between 250 and 300. This IQ is a matter of very heated debate to this day, because the sources don’t agree and all of them are hearsay. There is, however, no doubt that he had an extremely fast aptitude for learning anything. By his 20s, he was able to speak in over 40 languages, and claimed to be able to learn one in a day. He invented his own language, called Vendergood, which was a mishmash of Ancient Greek, Latin, and about 8 other European languages. J. R. R. Tolkien did the very same thing with Elvish, and spoke at least 30 languages. But we don’t think of Tolkien as having an IQ above 250, and yet he wrote a lot more than Sidis, and Tolkien’s literature is popular. Sidis invented a rotary calendar that would always be accurate even to the leap year. But why is that important? We already have working calendars. With a 300 IQ, it’s a shame he didn’t invent the time machine or a real lightsaber.Rene Descartes, probably another high IQ holder, famously wrote, “Cogito, ergo sum.” “I think, therefore, I am.” While this lister definitely agrees, he has always thought of this statement as incomplete. William Sidis proves it. He squandered his natural talents on the trivial. Einstein reached the heights of his greatness with “only” a 186. What could Sir Isaac Newton have done with a 300? Perhaps the phrase should be, “Cogito, ergo sum. Facio, ergo recordaremur.” “I think, therefore I am. I do, therefore I will be remembered.”FlameHorse is a writer for Listverse. He has no idea what his IQ is.