Wikipedia: IQ/Talk

There are two main quotiens, one with average=100, stddev=15, (aka. European IQ) and the other with average=100, stddev=24 (aka. US IQ)

Numbers on page reflects which one ?

"is a measure believed to be of general cognitive ability". Is believed by who? Is there controversy about this? (There certainly should be controversy, since Binet, who invented IQ in the first place, certainly did not believe this, and the know-nothing bozos at Stanford who apparently originated the belief published no scientific evidence to back it up.)

I believed that IQ was a scale that stopped when you reached 18yrs old. It is achieved over actual age in terms of intelligence e.g. smart as a 10yo at 10yo IQ is 100, smart as a 15yo at 10yo then IQ is 150.

I removed this statement:

: Around 3% of the people are said to be highly intelligent, of whom 1% reaches the level of genius.

because (aside from being ungrammatical) it doesn't say anything. What does "highly intelligent" mean, or what does "genius" mean? If you define these as simply "in the 97th (and 99th) percentile of IQ", then the statement is a tautology. If you don't define them, then the statement is an unattributed opinion. Something like "Some sociologists call IQs in the 99th percentile 'genius' level", then it becomes a true statement about sociologists, but I'm still not certain that it has any real information content. --Lee Daniel Crocker

Does anyone else think that we should mention Isaac Asimov's (someone famous for his high IQ) essay, "Thinking About Thinking"? --BlackGriffen