I'm Going To Use This Poll As A Trivia Question...

Guess which person has the highest IQ

(I'll post the answer in a little while...)

Hawking's...

IQ is a measure of verbal ability mostly. Hawking is good at theoretical physics, but not words.

I wonder :dunce:

buuzzzz. wrong answer. There are measures of verbal ability. There are performance ability measures. There are also measures of working memory, a strong indicator of imtelligence. Verbal encoding was required in much of the earlier IQ testing but has largely been factored out in the last say 20 years.

i was searching for Hawking's IQ on google and came across this article in the Weekly Standard which basically claims that being dumb is OK for a president!

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/730avutr.asp

a great line:
"We live in an age when pure intelligence is valued and honored beyond all bounds of reason."

Ummm, do you realize how incredibly contradictory that statment is? Apparently Mr. Engel (the author) isn't exactly the brightest bulb on the tree himself.

Another juicy one:
"By contrast, a case can be made that President Bush's strength as president derives from his lack of sophistication. There are no pixels in his worldview, only solid colors--particularly black and white. "

You are actually claiming that Bush is a good president because he's stupid?!?! And you then claim that seeing the world in black and white is a good thing?!?!

This article is extremely comical! Enjoy.

the person with the highest IQ isn't leading the poll right now

but I believe it is Geena Davis. The reason i voted for Hawking is that I have a high IQ and frankly it's not a really good measure of intelligence. I don't think that I am nearly as intelligent as my IQ would indicate, and having read many of Hawkings pieces i would say he is probably the single most intelligent person I know about.

I know that Geena Davis and Sharon Stone are smart, but Hawking has to be smarter.

which in itself is an indication of a high IQ...I mean when Swharzqwqqwpuwogn's wife has to prolcaim he is not as stupid as he looks probably means his is 'stupider' than he looks????

I'll guess Sharon Stone.

Hawking was thrown in to mislead us.

Something like that. NOw if he had only figured out that those guys sitting beside him in August 2001 were terrorists.........but I'm not holding that against him.

But I'll keep those who didn't catch it guessing for a little while longer.

:)

I'm such a bad girl.

Madonna has an IQ of 140
Sharon Stone has an IQ of 154
Geena Davis has an IQ of 140
James Woods Alleged to have an IQ of 180. He scored a perfect 800 on his verbal SATs and a 779 on the math section.
I don't know Stephen Hawking's, Bill Gates, or Paul Allen's IQ.

So based on this I say Sharon Stone or James Woods if that is an accurate IQ.

:shrug:

Have we gotten an answer yet?

It's James Woods. He has an IQ of 180.

Does that make me the smartest?

Vermont Dem.... got it too, but I was first. :bounce: