An IQ of 156

Super spoopy

dat spoopy action at a distance

Thank Mr. Uncretinty

Count Dirac-ula super spooky

Not smart people. Verysmart people.

"Quantum mechanics". That was fun. [iq 147]

I like saying "Baracuda".

I agree with you that it's sad that pop-sci means people get only a surface understanding of what QM is and how it works.

But I gotta disagree with what you said about my boy Schrödinger's equation. It's super important to use it to find energy eigenstates, not just locations of particles. It tells you loads of extra stuff too, like how the wave function changes in time. The square of the wave function tells you the probability of finding a particle at a certain location, but that's different from Schroedinger's equation.

Sorry if I'm being pedantic; I'm about to finish my physics degree next semester so I know I don't know everything, but I just wanted to clear up some stuff that I could help with.

If you haven't already, and if you're interested in QM, you should check out Shankar's book on quantum mechanics; it's entirely self-contained so its perfect to use even without taking a formal course.

Quantum mechanics are about photons? That's news to me. (I'm aware that QM describes photons, but isn't it more than that?)

a micro particle? qm only describes photons?

this is a joke right

No, the saddest thing is that most of these people only know about Shroedinger's cat because they saw it on the Big Bang Theory.

his IQ is higher than Einstein’s

I thought Einstein never took a formal iq test?

His explanation literally makes no sense.

Jacob, who is now 17 and a PhD student at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, is a lot more intelligent than this comment makes him out to be. I met him this summer while doing research at PI. He gave me and the other undergrads there a short intro to quantum field theory in the form of informal lectures.

All in all, he's a smart guy, and I wouldn't give much thought to what he had to say as a 12 year old. He's nothing like the person OP was talking about.

Kid needs to stick to math. He doesn't know nearly as much about astronomy as he thinks he does, and his genius IQ is clearly going to his head.

Did he take middle school acience before writing this? Like, he never mentioned chemical reactions, nuclear fusion, or anything that would be relevant at all.

Took me a second to remember TheBlaze is Glenn Beck's website. No wonder it makes no sense.

hence the Earth, made mostly of carbon

The Earth is mostly silicon, actually. Just because you tested out of high school math doesn't mean you understand high school science.

That kid actually is very very smart though... I'll forgive and ignore mistakes from 12 year old prodigies.

Even 12 year old prodigies have the exuberance of a pre-teen. Barnett is 18 now and I believe is currently working on his PhD.

I took a class from a professor in that article, the averages on the tests were in the 40-60% range.

We can't all be geniuses I guess. Sorry JRoss.

Jesus Christ, the comments section. And I thought /r/news could get bad...

I thought that website is trash based on that article.. then I read the comments Trash website confirmed!

He could go on and on.

And he did.

"Jeez, this kid! Why won't he shut up?"

He doesn't even know the big bang is the start of the expansion of space, not an explosion. Almost like he only learned about about it from TV documentaries that always show it as a very noisy explosion from the outside. Also God did it because through God all things are possible, even the contradictory things because he used a cat to make sure we never really know what's going on. Feel me?

So is this kid the same guy as OP's?

I'm no le scientist, but even a dummy like me knows that was complete nonsense.

How is this kid taking astrophysics classes and believes earth is "made of mostly carbon"?

You're not as edgy as you think you are, neckbeard..

“If we can get all of those creative juices in a certain direction, we might be able to see some really amazing stuff down the road.”

Translation: If he would just STFU and listen in thirty years he'll be a good physicist.

Nah dude, kid is obviously a jenius.

That part could be true. My high school let me dual enroll at a local community college for 3 classes for two semesters. Beat AP classes cause I actually got college credit instead of having to take the AP test. When I graduated high school and went to college I started out with 18 credits (when I registered classes I made sure everything would transfer).

It's certainly possible he took actual college classes. I took college classes over the summer in middle school and did college release (half your day in high school, the other half in college) during high school.

I know, I know, /r/iamverysmart...

I did it and I'm pretty stupid, so, checkmate.

Edit: See, I didn't even check the next comment to see that someone else was saying the same thing.

Low level college classes are easy as balls anyways. No one thinks its hard that a 17 year old can do them when they're designed for an 18 year old.

They don't have the time to obey them. Too busy creating MATHEMATICAL LAWS.

There's a great essay by Hilaire Belloc called 'On Spelling' in which he bemoans the standardisation of spelling, all the while bemoaning his own rage at seeing other people mis-spell stuff. It's pretty entertaining reading! Read it here

Here's one of the best passages:

Spelling is the great breeder of hatred among the nations, and of divisions, misapprehensions, war—or as our fathers more splendidly put it (to a toll of drums) “Warres”; as also of “Dissencyons” and “Broils.” Here myself I confess to the weakness; to see “labour” spelt “labor” makes me see red. It makes all that is ancient in England see red; and the more openly we admit it the better for international and domestic peace.

*edited to provide a better, less advertising-ridden link.

grammatical

Yeah, it's a new GRAMMAR LAW he came up with.

Speak for yourself.

*nowhere

It's pretty ugly grammar. Two mistakes in two words, within a badly fragmented sentence? Anyway, if we're already here mocking people for talking themselves up, it makes sense to me to hold them to their own lofty standards.

I was about to say something similar. There were some extremely average (or even bad) students that did the college courses for both high school and college credit thing back at my high school.

Someone who is dumb as fuck here, can confirm.

I did running start when I was 16. Seriously, any average Joe can do it.

Plenty of US students take calculus in high school, and many of those take calc 2 as well. It's just the "average" students that are given the shite teachers and aren't expected to do much.

Am Australian, can confirm, did calculus in 11th grade. Mandatory for year 11s, more advanced students can do it in year 10.

But what about the latinos?

Don't forget the telomeres!

So it's more likely to be 15.6...

I'm guessing he took 6 online IQ tests. Or he took one online IQ test 6 times.

To be fair, you can have a genius IQ and a learning disability. You can also have a personality disorder or mental illness, that also makes them test you many times.

He's actually on the autistic spectrum, go figure.

But really its all just calculus, why would you even differentiate between the two.

lol, that's what it means? I thought "anti-differential" must have been some highly advanced and esoteric field.

Maybe it's like integral calculus but without the constant.

Isn't... Isn't differential calculus when you separate dx and dy? What would anti differential calculus be, then? Calc 2 student, so I'm not certain, but I think that's right.

To be fair, I learnt it as anti differential and integration when I was doing calculus.

Seriously, he said it like that's so hard. The calculus class I just took had 30 people in it and like 20 something passed. This is a community college. "Understanding calculus" is really not that rare or difficult when you get down to it.

You pretty much nailed it. "Indefinite integral" and "antiderivative" are interchangeable. The definite integral is the area under the curve of a given function from points a and b.

Nobody uses "anti-differential calculus" instead of "integral calculus" because it doesn't make sense. Differential and derivative are absolutely, 100% not interchangeable, at all. In this context, the differential is the "dx" thing you stick at the end of your integral, and spoken it means "with respect to x". This differential is the continuous but infinitesimally small change in the variable as the function moves along the real line.

So I guess "anti-differential calculus" would have these giant jumps and holes and all kinds of nasty stuff that is really antithetical to what calculus is all about.

Back when I read about it, most sources set the genius threshold at 144 or 145.

When I was in school 130 was the cutoff for the gifted program. It may have been just for white kids, too; I remember something about how certain other ethnicities had a cutoff of 120 instead. Not sure what the reasoning was for that. Mensa, if I recall correctly (can't be bothered to look it up), has a cutoff of 132.

I've seen different definitions of "genius IQ", but 130 wouldn't be it. I mean, what do you suppose the average IQ is for, say, Harvard undergrad? I'm going to guess that it's around 140 or so. It's just a barely-educated guess. Most of the people who get in are very intelligent, but I doubt that more than 50 or so each class should be considered actual geniuses, while I would expect that the majority of the 1600-ish class each year is above 130. Again, this is all just me pulling numbers out of my ass. You know -- my gut feeling.

Yup.

Yeah, in this way many IQ tests are as much to provide a sample in order to determine standardised score boundaries (often stratified by age) as they are to give an individual result.

Thank you at least from saving us the effort of submitting your post to /r/iamverysmart.

I like your style

Some IQ tests deviate differently than other IQ tests though. So 130 could be 120 on another test. You have to look at which top percentage you fall according to your score and with the specific test you did. And then you have to compare that to how IQ is usually distributed

That could also mean that it's 140 or something but I doubt that :p

it's because your comment is nothing more than a humble brag. no amount of good phrasing can change that.

fag.

They don't even account for the quantum physics Wikipedia page!

Better than having it at 4 percent

If you have to tell people you're smart, good chance that you're not.

Yeah, theres that super genius guy who now is in his 30s and lives on a cow farm in Arizona or something

A lot depends on how many plebs you succeed in getting to worship you.

What most people really seem to not realise is that standardised tests like these are not assigning you a score that describes you, but rather the score that is most probably your true score. Each result will have a confidence interval based on probability.

e.g. a score of 130 may have a 90% confidence interval of 125-134 (i.e. we're 90% sure your real IQ is in this range) and a 99% interval of 120-138.

This is why you most often see people that understand IQ scoring say "over 130" or "over 140," not because they're misleading and their actual scores are 131 and 141 like people in this sub sometimes like to suggest, but because that's all they can really be sure of.

So if anyone confidently states their IQ is a particular number accurate to the nearest integer take it with a pinch of salt, even if it was a reputable test.

Sorry if it seems like I'm ranting at you, just wanted to add to your comment!

I took discrete math this semester. Is that "real" math?

Nah mate, 183. I'm no simpleton.

I took 2 tests, 3 years apart from eachother and scored 136 both times but I definetly am not smart or gifted. I failed a year in high school and barely past the rest. I don't mean this as a humble brag or anything I just honestly don't think that I'm smart and think that IQ tests are bullshit.