Fun: Using SAT Scores to Estimate IQ

[cheesecake4all]

There is a calculator that uses your SAT scores to estimate your IQ (Stanford-Binet) - see LINK here. With a minimum combined math & verbal/reading SAT score of 400, the calculator estimates the IQ to be 44; if the combined score is 1600, then the IQ is estimated to be 168.



Note: this is strictly for fun . Though Richard Feynman's IQ score was (only) 125, he did excel in math and physics - see LINK here.

[youngyew]

Thanks for the link, it's the first time I read about Richard Feynman's purported IQ score. I find it funny though that you should mention he "excels in maths and physics". It's like describing van Gogh as someone "who draws pretty well".

[cheesecake4all]

A beautiful story about Richard Feynman @ Thinking Machines.
(excerpts below). Note: this was after Feynman had already won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics.

We were arguing about what the name of the company should be when Richard walked in, saluted, and said, 'Richard Feynman reporting for duty. OK, boss, what's my assignment' The assembled group of not-quite-graduated MIT students was astounded.

After a hurried private discussion ('I don't know, you hired him'), we informed Richard that his assignment would be to advise on the application of parallel processing to scientific problems.

'That sounds like a bunch of baloney,' he said. 'Give me something real to do.'

So we sent him out to buy some office supplies. ...

Many a visitor at Thinking Machines was shocked to see that we had a Nobel Laureate soldering circuit boards or painting walls.