So this girl I know got an IQ of 200. Is that even possible???

[Soulside_Journey]

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@CocaColaAddict

starbucks08…your impression of the distribution of IQ is, I’m sorry to say, completely wrong. There is not an equal (or even roughly equal) number of people with each of the possible IQ values. IQ is supposed to be normally distributed (i.e. its distribution is a bell curve). The further away you go from 100 (in either direction), the number of people with that IQ decreases.</p>

<p>What I’m saying is that you can’t reason that 150 is the midway point between 100 and 200 and so it isn’t unlikely for a person to have an IQ of 200.

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<p>Indeed. I wonder if he got his IQ score from one of those online tests? ;)</p>

<p>99.7% of the population has an IQ of 130 or less. That’s 997 people out of 1,000. Let’s keep that in mind. People with an IQ of 200 or anywhere near it only come around once in a lifetime; these are people like Da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, etc.</p>