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Real/official IQ tests, or internet ones? It's not valid unless it's the actual official IQ test. Just asking because 140 is Einstein territory. Not that you're not smart, I have no idea, just usually when someone talks about really high numbers like that, it was one of the internet ones... But who knows, maybe you're Einstein's long lost cousin! Or just genius.
140 is hardly Einstein territory. 140 is about the 99.somethingth percentile. There are a lot of people higher than that. For simplicity's sake, it can be said that 100 is the median score. I would say a "genius" has at least a 160 IQ (Which happens to be the IQ of my uncle.) If we say that it is the 99.5th percentile, then there are 661 people on this board that have an IQ similar to or higher than mine! I actually think that this board probably has a higher than average IQ as well, meaning that that number is likely much higher.
Two real IQ tests: one school administered, another for entry into an honor program. The silly internet one (the one for the high IQ society) actually gave me the lowest score, though I took the more "difficult" variety.
I'm not exactly the worlds greatest thinker. I have no plans to be Einstein or any other great scientist or philosopher. I'm just a lowly student at your average private university (admittedly in an honors program and with their "Presidential Scholarship"). There are a lot of people out there.
Anyway, I understand the skepticism. Discussion of IQs is a touchy subject, partially due to the difficulty in measuring them accurately and their questionably valid relationship to real world intelligence. I find myself being the world's biggest idiot on a daily basis. And, after all is said and done, I'm 18. I bet in real life I'm not nearly as usefully intelligent as a 50 year old with a 115 IQ. That said, things do come easily to me. I ranked among the top few high-school age cellists in my state without much practice at all: and after all that, I'm not a music major! (For some perspective, I should say that the person that was seated (placed) above me went to the New England Conservatory and the one behind went to Juilliard, so I'm fairly proud of that. Maybe I should have gone into music, I'm terrible at this computer science stuff
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Also, the OP's questions are hard! I'll keep thinking about them though.