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Downplaying the old IQ numbers racket...
Though Actress Judy Holliday specialized in playing dumb blondes, legend has it that she possessed a towering 172 IQ. Spiro Agnew says his is 135, which puts him well into the ranks of the intellectually superior. South Korea's Kim Ung-Yong, a 14-year-old prodigy who was speaking four languages and solving integral calculus problems at age four, is said to tip the mental scales at 210, worth a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. Even Yankee Slugger Reggie Jackson brags as much about his IQ (he claims...
...itself. (Oh, by the way, make sure the third side you take is the longest side--that's the only "catch.") Now, add up the first two "squares." Compare them with the third "square" you have, and compare the difference. The difference is how smart you are (your "IQ") for doing this in the first place. Besides, I was only kidding about my roommate; he's studying to be a dentist...
...Pender County superior court last week, three key prosecution witnesses testified that they had lied at the original trial under pressure from Prosecutor Stroud. The star witness, Allen Hall, a black youth with an IQ of 78 and a long criminal record, swore in confusing testimony that while he was under observation at a mental hospital before the trial, Stroud had promised him a short prison sentence; he said he was coached to insist that he had helped set the grocery ablaze under Chavis' direction. Another witness, then 13 years old, said Stroud gave...
...powerful." In fact, he was powerful enough to see his ideas on heredity and intelligence translated into educational policy. As a government adviser in the 1940s, he played a prominent role in setting up the three-tier British school system that pigeonholed students on the basis of an IQ test given at age eleven...