>For instance, the person with the highest IQ [2] (about 30% higher than Einstein) lives on a farm in the middle of nowhere and has not done anything or contributed to the world. On the other hand, we have Elon Musk [3] who is smart, but not as smart as having the highest IQ in the world. Yet, Elon is capable to make change happen.
Essentially every part of this paragraph is wrong or misinformed. Einstein never had an IQ test so estimates of his IQ are little more than baseless speculation (especially if you’re trying to compare him to other geniuses).
Any claims that somebody has “the highest IQ” are also universally misinformed and/or deceptive for a few reasons. Firstly is that standard IQ tests have a ceiling and cannot do much to distinguish intelligence beyond the range they were calibrated with. So claims of IQ’s way over 170 are always either adjusted upwards because of age (meaning they aren’t statistically valid, because they don’t conform to this distribution: https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/IQtable.aspx), or they are using non-standard IQ tests which lack the evidence of efficacy of the standard IQ tests (and are also almost always statistically invalid).
So all of the reasons you gave for not wanting to be at the upper end of the distribution simply do not hold water (like most claims that being a super-genius doesn’t make you better off).
>For instance, the person with the highest IQ [2] (about 30% higher than Einstein) lives on a farm in the middle of nowhere and has not done anything or contributed to the world. On the other hand, we have Elon Musk [3] who is smart, but not as smart as having the highest IQ in the world. Yet, Elon is capable to make change happen.
Essentially every part of this paragraph is wrong or misinformed. Einstein never had an IQ test so estimates of his IQ are little more than baseless speculation (especially if you’re trying to compare him to other geniuses).
Any claims that somebody has “the highest IQ” are also universally misinformed and/or deceptive for a few reasons. Firstly is that standard IQ tests have a ceiling and cannot do much to distinguish intelligence beyond the range they were calibrated with. So claims of IQ’s way over 170 are always either adjusted upwards because of age (meaning they aren’t statistically valid, because they don’t conform to this distribution: https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/IQtable.aspx), or they are using non-standard IQ tests which lack the evidence of efficacy of the standard IQ tests (and are also almost always statistically invalid).
So all of the reasons you gave for not wanting to be at the upper end of the distribution simply do not hold water (like most claims that being a super-genius doesn’t make you better off).
In short, almost everything that is widely claimed about IQ is bullshit. “IQ” is indeed an intelligence test...smart people don’t care about it.
That doesn’t follow from my comment at all.
The fact IQ has plenty of limitations doesn’t negate all of the ways in which standard IQ tests have tremendous predictive power.