William James Sidis had an IQ between 250 and 300
William James Sidis IQ was between 250 and 300
William James Sidis was a wonder child; at eighteen months he could read The New York Times, at two he taught himself Latin, at three he learned Greek. By the time he was eight he had taught himself eight languages (Latin, Greek, French, Russian, German, Hebrew, Turkish, and Armenian). He also invented another, which he called Vendergood.
The IQ of William James Sidis
The IQ of William James Sidis was never measured by an IQ test as we know it. His IQ was only estimated after his death by Abraham Sperling, director of New York City’s Aptitude Testing Institute. Sperling said that according to his calculations, William James Sidis “easily had an IQ between 250 and 300″, which meant that at some time his intellectual age was 2.5 to 3 times his actual age (not the same scale as modern deviation IQ).
William James Sidis was the youngest student at Harvard
William James Sidis gained entrance to Harvard at eleven, and gave a lecture on four-dimensional bodies to the Harvard Mathematical Club his first year. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, on June 18, 1914, at age 16.
A short while after he graduated, William James Sidis told reporters that he wanted to live the perfect life. For him this meant living a live in seclusion. William James Sidis gave an interview to a reporter from the Boston Herald, which published his vows to remain celibate and never to marry, including a statement that women did not appeal to him at all.
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http://www.prometheussociety.org/articles/Outsiders.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis
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The 250-300 IQ claimed by Wikipedia and “The Outiders” (at Prometheus) are based on wrong information derived from Amy Wallace’s book “The Prodigy: A Biography of William James Sidis, America’s Greatest Child Prodigy”. “The Prodigy” claimed that Sperling said: “In recent years I have tested more than five thousand people. Of all the mentally superior individuals that I have seen, nobody begins to approach the intellect and perspicacity of William Sidis. According to my computations, he easily had an IQ between 250 and 300.†Sperling’s own version, found in “A Story of Genius”, is: “Helena Sidis told me that a few years before his death, her brother Bill took an intelligence test with a psychologist. His score was the very highest that had ever been obtained. In terms of I.Q., the psychologist related that the figure would be between 250 and 300.” According to Sperling’s version, he based his comments on hearsay from Helena. Helena may have stretched the truth like she reportedly did with other claims about William Sidis’ language skills, which were recorded in “The Prodigy” as fact. No known adult IQ test exists today that can accurately measure 250-300, and none existed in the 1940s. The 250-300 IQ claim is a myth. The other claims of newspaper reports and Sidis’ language skills are mostly misleading half-truths and misinterpretations. Source: Myths, Facts, and Lies About Prodigies – A Historiography of Willia James Sidis.
My only hope is that I can learn 8 words of Latin, and then people would think I was smart. I guess I would soon bore Mr. Sidis if we went to all-you-can-eat Ryan’s buffet for lunch.
[...] Ed did a piece on one of the most—if not THE most—intelligent people to have ever lived: William James Sidis [pronounced SIGH dis]. Read about this child prodigy who began reading the daily newspaper at 18 [...]
WIKIPIEDIA keeps DELETING INFO about the lack of evidence for the IQ claim….
And that way you want to consider Wikipedia as trustworthy?
Just because there is light, it does not mean ever one can see. Just as another language you can not understand their intelligence just because it exists.
1. Sometimes Wikipedia is does not give correct info so I prefer to double or maybe even triple check the information I get if needed.
2.It’s really a wonder about how any human can get such a high I.Q. so easily.
3.I would only want a 120-140 I.Q. to be satisfied.
4.The brain’s a mystery I’ll give you that.
5.Why is it that I only RARELY come across a WOMEN genuis?
From what I have read, the IQs of men are more often very high or very low compared to women, who seem to be more often in the middle ranges. How much of this is genetic, biological, or cultural, I have no idea.
Perhaps the way we measure IQ gives greater attention to certain skills which males have in greater abundance than females, and ignores skills which women excel in. H. L. Mencken, in “The Masculine Bag of Tricks” argued that men were better at trivial skills (law, medicine, mathematics require rather modest intelligence and no wisdom), while women had more valuable abilities.
MY wife said some people will go out of the way to be in the spot light even if it means lying, even if her brother worked for the cia.
Merci pour cette article, un info utile merci !
What of his parents? who were they? and what is there history to the great mind that wanted to be left alone, not left out. To bad we have still not learn to get along, and respect each others space. As our forefathers planned it for us. great story thank you.
Who gives a fuck? 3.5 millennia since the birth of Moses and the world is the biggest pile of shit it has ever been. Let’s get a grip on what is real and what is not.