The genius accepted by Mensa aged just 3 after IQ of 140 equals Bill Clinton

Daily Mail ^ | 2/17/10 | Liz Hull

[Nachum]

Most three-year-olds are fascinated by cars and trucks.

But few can read and remember their number plates like William Potter does.

He can also name most towns and cities in the British Isles - and has just become one of the youngest people ever accepted as a member of Mensa.

With an IQ of 140, his intelligence is said to be on a par with that of Bill Clinton and, apparently, Napoleon Bonaparte.

[greeneyes]

I read that stormin’ Norman was around 180.

[achilles2000]

Other than the puff pieces from the usual media flacks, there is no reason to believe that Clinton’s IQ is 140. Someone that intelligent would be able to write better than he can. The Rhodes Scholarship, BTW, is not awarded on the basis of exceptional academic talent or achievement, as most people seem to think.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“So, what is that Genius Zer0’s IQ? H!’s?”

Why do you think so many call him ‘Zero’?

[freekitty]

Well that is an awful comparison.

[SERE_DOC]

I agree, this is stupid. I have an IQ just above grape, but common sense is off the scale.

But being clinically stupid (like most politicians) the norm has been achieved.

Never forget Billy boy remains the second president to be impeached.

[dr_who]

I for one think Attila the Hun, Ivan the Terrible, and Alexander the Great were pretty friggin' cruel-er-cool. Of course, no one is alive who remember what nasty individuals they were. With WWII, you have oodles of photographs of mounds of dead jews. With much older wars, you have lots of contrived paintings of great victories perhaps with an occasional, less inspiring painting like this one:



But in general, going back over a couple generations, we don't get worked up about people who died unnaturally or caused other people's deaths ...unless it's part of some religious belief or helps to support some political agenda. And that's a fairly rational approach to the issue really.

[eyedigress]

Mine is also decent but possessive pronouns under the influence will kick my butt.(thanks for your discretion) :^)

[dr_who]

Politicians aren’t all clinically stupid. A large number of them are really good con men and sociopaths like Bill Clinton.

[Dragonspirit]

LOL! Clinton didn’t have a 140 IQ.

[MrEdd]

But the kid could still be too stupid to know what the meaning of “is” is.

[Uri’el-2012]

The Marxists always claim to have a high IQ

[Razz Barry]

I thought it strange that they mention the calculator as if it shows proof of his superior intellect. They should buy the child an abacus.

[outhousepatrol]

Have a brother that belongs to Mensa. But tends to be a major pessimist.........

His bottle is always half empty.........mine is half full.

[HospiceNurse]

This is a great opportunity for the disfunctional to post their alleged IQs.

[HospiceNurse]

The definition of an optimist is “a pessimist in training”.

[eyedigress]

760 here.....Oh wait.....!

[matthew fuller]

"But few can read and remember their number plates like William Potter does. "

Can one of the many geniuses on this thread tell me what a "number plate" is? Also, while I'm asking, why are so many geniuses born in August?

[outhousepatrol]

“Why do you think so many call him ‘Zero’?”

Per Wikipedia: Barack Obama has not released transcripts for his grades from Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law. He has also not released his SAT and LSAT scores. No explanation has been offered for not releasing them.

GPA= 0.0

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

First of all, IQ is not a static quality. It is, by definition, your intelligence quotient. Quotient means it is determined by division (specifically, for many IQ tests, the number of questions you can answer correctly divided by the number of questions the average person your age answers correctly. Note the "your age" portion of that. This means that early-developing children often have a high IQ... until the other kids catch up to them developmentally. So only the very uninformed would look at a three year-old's IQ score and assume it means anything about that child's future intelligence.

Second of all, anyone who brags about IQ scores above 135 doesn't know what they are talking about. Standard IQ tests don't measure with any accuracy over about 130-135 (at that point the test is not statistically valid). In any case, IQ scores cannot be compared numerically in the first place. They are compared based on standard deviations from the mean. At 100, fifteen points is about one standard deviation. So you could say that, in general, we could expect a person with an IQ 120 to be "smarter" (depending on your definition) than a person with a 100 (as they are separated by a standard deviation). As the test exceeds 130-135, the standard deviation becomes statistically undefinable enough that we can't actually say anything about a score of 148 compared to a 175... the tests just don't measure those scores accurately enough.

So, quite frankly, anyone who knows what they are talking about would refer to their IQ scores as normal/one or two standard deviations above the mean/beyond two standard deviations from the mean/ etc. Quotations of extravagant numbers are worthless (and a bit sad, really)...

[SoConPubbie]

Bill Clinton a Genius?

Devious, yes, a genius, no!