The Woman with an IQ of 228
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Published 2024-04-15
Marilyn explains the Monty Hall Problem that stumped everyone: • The Simple Question that Stumped Ever...
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All Comments (21)
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The actual test she took was not standardized and was given unsupervised. And interpolating someone's actual score based on age is flawed. By her own admission, later in her life she retook a supervised test and scored 178 which is still quite high.
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At least this person didn't get royally screwed over by the media. She for the most part lived her own life, and where sure of the answers she replied even when she got hated on. Heck, she seemed like a excellent formulator answering 'not so hard' questions patiently when she could be burning up on the inside of how obvious it should be.
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I remember ask Marilyn long time ago. She was the most intelligent, and emotionally empathetic person you could imagine. Intelligence is everything. Not just one side, but both sides.
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Right. Emailed her a few years back, congratulating her on her calm demeaner (I had seen her on this clip), and she emailed me back. I wasn't expecting that. I think that she's lived a good life, had a lot of fun. And solved more than a few problems. Not too much more than you can ask.
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It's always interesting to me how peoples' attitudes are so different towards a male genius and a female genius...
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Intellect is different than wisdom.
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Tbh with an IQ that big I would be able to read into everything so much that I would become depressed and anxious.
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Excellent job shining a light on this incredible person. Statistically and ethically, Marilyn had the right approach to her career choice. Her impact is more significant and less biased in her efforts toward humanity.
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Max Planck and Werner Heisenberg or Neils Bohr. I have been saying that for a long time. Please Cindy.
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I perhaps had the lowest IQ in the schools that I had attended. But still, when in my 40's, I managed to independently derive the Special Relativity mathematical equations on my own, despite having dropped out of school and thus also having no prior physics education at all. So the point is, even though you have a nasty low IQ, that still can be misleading.
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Definitely an outlier. And that’s ok. Intelligence doesn’t mean a better human.
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I think there is an easier way to explain the door problem. The host picks a door and it is a goat or anything else. Regardless, the probability of the host picking the car in any case is 1/3. If a goat is picked and the host recommends another door the probability of it being right is also 1/3. So, the probability of the other door being correct should be 1 - 1/3 which is 2/3.
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I think my iq is 80 but it doesn’t bother me
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If there’s a way to test for the lowest IQ, I’m sure I may surpass the lowest score….😭I’m so dumb/unintelligent always struggling even on what normal people call common sense I seem not have it either. Anyway, I admire those intelligent people.
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"she would have pursued a career as a politician". This mentality alone solidified her as a grift. Anyone who views being a politician as a career is an immediate red flag. Plus her dismissive attitude towards pursuing other careers is telling.
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IQ is a number that represents how well she did on a TEST. What was her SAT score? How many patents does she hold? Has she won the Nobel Peace Prize? What is her net wealth? She's obviously very smart and she looks it (hot too) but the Guiness Book of World Records is a dubious reference to the best human achievements in the history of the world.
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Logical thinking can cause the wrong decision if you have wrong or incomplete data and the tiniest detail can make a difference. I'll be honest, I think David Letterman's question was good. You would think she would have been a bit more ambitious, but then I can only imagine the hurdles she may have faced.
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What she said about not having anyone to turn to really hit me. I've said things akin to this, many times over the years. By her metric, there are approximately 12,000 people on earth who I could turn to. Thankfully, some of them are my friends. Marilyn is in a uniquely solitary space.
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Enjoyed the video but where is she now in life and what is she doing?
