which individual in the entire history of men/women has highest IQ score recorded?

Answer 1

Your question is an interesting one. It is relatively well accepted that IQ scores have been getting higher with each generation. However, when you say "in the entire history of men/women" you must mean since about 1945, since before that time IQ tests were not in common usage. It was only after 1900 that they began to be used much at all, and even then only in schools to determine which students had learning problems.

Who really had the highest IQ? That is a different question, of course, than who had the highest IQ score ever recorded. I am not religious at all in the sense of organized religion, but I would pick a seemingly simple person at the tieme, who has affected the lives of many over a long period of time, thousands of years. One such person could be Jesus Christ, and of course there were other influential prophets.

The answer to your question depends upon which IQ test you mean. It is relatively common knowledge that according to Mensa Marilyn vos Savant had the highest IQ ever recorded at something like 228 I believe. The Mensa tests are just that - Mensa tests. They are interesting to do, and tell us something about ourselves, but they are not real IQ tests. Others suggest that the person with the highest recorded IQ is a person in the UK, I believe, with an IQ over 300.

However, using an IQ score in this way negates considering a huge part of the human population over hundreds of years, since IQ tests have been in common use only since the mid 1900's. So what about people like Leonardo da Vinci? I have seen lists of people with high IQ scores and his name has been on them, suggesting he had an IQ score of over 200, but that is impossible since people of his time cannot be included because IQ tests had not yet been invented when he was alive.

However, there is another point that must be considered. IQ scores over about 150 or so, are, for all real purposes meaningless. With a real IQ test such as the Wechsler or the Stanford Binet, the highest score would be about 150, not those so called "amazing" scores of 200 and more.

My belief is that an IQ score is just a number. It is not the essence of a person. As I have often said to kids on here who were wondering what their IQ score meant, much more important than an IQ score is what you do with it.

Thank you for asking the question. It gave me the opportunity to say my bit about the current fascination with high IQ scores. Take care.

Answer 2

Intelligence testing started at the beginning of the 20th century and IQ tests some time later. No-one born before that could have had his/her IQ recorded. Any highest score can only be for the last 100 years at the most.

Answer 3

Intelligence testing is of fairly recent origin; also an IQ test is, unfortunately, inherently biased toward the culture in which it originates. Wise people realize that there are many ways of knowing---musical knowing (pitch, rhythm, harmony), for example; social knowing (intuition, understanding, compassion), athletic knowing (movement and timing), visual knowledge (depth, perception, spatial relationships)...and the list goes on.
As far as "IQ scores" (for what that is worth), Marilyn Vos Savant has a measured iq of 228, the highest measured. Google her and check out her website.

Answer 4

They can't really complain at all, since languages and literacy have been staples of education since ancient times, when men were trained to take positions as public servants. Boys were expected to memorize and recite, become expert public speakers, learn Latin and numerous other languages, and study literature and argumentation. This was what education consisted of until the late 19th century. I would in fact say America's current curriculum has far less of a language and literacy focus than past European curriculums, through which boys received far superior educations than their female counterparts.

Answer 5

Not sure about recorded, but da vinci was estimated to be just above 200. Einstein was only around 133.

Answer 6

I do thats why iam on this site smart huh

Answer 7

i would think stephen hawking, or albert einstine even if he did suck at math he was still a genius!

Answer 8

me! lol...just joking, I have no idea! Einstein?

Answer 9

I think it's you...I'm OK with that!

Answer 10

JADE?