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That one person in our entire history somehow got tested accurately (is that even possible? there isn't any sense or point for any IQ test to even go into that range, because what would you be baselining and verifying the test against?) and is advertising about it? Count me skeptical.


It does bring to mind the concept of history’s smartest person, though:

* Ug, the hunter gatherer

* Definitely could have invented fire-cooking if it didn’t predate homo-sapiens

* Can design novel knots and traps from scratch

* Second best stone knapper in the tribe without even trying (Og is better at knapping but that is all he does)

* Predicts movements of roaming antelopes faster than anyone else, and his extrapolations are accurate for days longer

* Can handle 200 social contacts (this skill is useless because the tribe is only 40 people big).


Someone crazy smart is far more likely to take an IQ test at some point in their life. Ask the opposite - how hard would it be to overlook the fact that a 3 year old is doing fucking calculus? That's just insane. There is virtually no chance that gets looked over.




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