Do you think you're smarter than most of the posters on this forum?

[the_bob_delusion]

A simple yes or no will do. 

[*crikey*mate*]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

OK, given population of 7,000,000 - 2.1 % is roughly 147,000 so what the chart says is that 147,000 worldwide have an IQ of  169 or above. 

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7 million? Australia has more people than that.

[poddster]

In this particular case the person had a high I.Q. and the book happened to be on a subject that he was familiar with, so yes he would have had a high degree of comprehension.

I asked if he could remember in the same way everything he had ever read.

No he said when he looked at those t pages he took a mental snapshot of them.

He said the remembering everything like that would drive anyone around the twist.

[jimmy*part4]

160

99.991

11,000

I don't know why it's listed that way...subtract 100% from the % column.

Leaves..... .009% of the population.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

OK, given population of 7,000,000 - 2.1 % is roughly 147,000 so what the chart says is that 147,000 worldwide have an IQ of  169 or above. 

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7 million? Australia has more people than that.

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well, I meant 7 billion didn't I?  I'm not good with zeros or decimal points...

and, on reflection, I think I am wrong anyway .... I think jimmeh is right.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@poddster wrote:

In this particular case the person had a high I.Q. and the book happened to be on a subject that he was familiar with, so yes he would have had a high degree of comprehension.

I asked if he could remember in the same way everything he had ever read.

No he said when he looked at those t pages he took a mental snapshot of them.

He said the remembering everything like that would drive anyone around the twist.

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the mental snapshot is what I saw. (not me personally)

You can actually see them "reading" the pages back, even though the book isn't there, their eyes kinda move back and forth as if they are reading.

what I saw was just regurgitated though, no indication of comprehension. They can do it with anything.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@*jimmeh* wrote:

160

99.991

11,000

I don't know why it's listed that way...subtract 100% from the % column.

Leaves..... .009% of the population.

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thanks Jimmeh, how many people is that?

[not_an_eloi]

ferdinand marcos 'ad an iedetic memory, nicola tesla 'ad an iedetic memory, learned it by usin' mnemonics

person don't need to be a genius to learn to use the memory to its max. capacity, anyone can learn that, through memory courses

character who remembered the ew magnetic theory probably 'ad some other experience in the field of electronics, yeh,

one of your ham radio mates, mebbe. 

[*crikey*mate*]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

OK, given population of 7,000,000 - 2.1 % is roughly 147,000 so what the chart says is that 147,000 worldwide have an IQ of  169 or above. 

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7 million? Australia has more people than that.

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well, I meant 7 billion didn't I?  I'm not good with zeros or decimal points...

and, on reflection, I think I am wrong anyway .... I think jimmeh is right.

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hey! my eyes blurred over just trying to make sense of the chart!

(and there is a reason why I wrote million and didn't use zeros LOLOL

[*crikey*mate*]

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@not_an_eloi wrote:

ferdinand marcos 'ad an iedetic memory, nicola tesla 'ad an iedetic memory, learned it by usin' mnemonics

person don't need to be a genius to learn to use the memory to its max. capacity, anyone can learn that, through memory courses

character who remembered the ew magnetic theory probably 'ad some other experience in the field of electronics, yeh,

one of your ham radio mates, mebbe. 

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true, but some people have it naturally, they don't have to learn it, it just happened.

That's how they studied mind maps etc and started learning about them to teach others

synesthasia is another thing too. - some natural, (in varying degrees) others can learn it.

[jimmy*part4]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@*jimmeh* wrote:

160

99.991

11,000

I don't know why it's listed that way...subtract 100% from the % column.

Leaves..... .009% of the population.

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thanks Jimmeh, how many people is that?

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I'm not very good at math...I use tricks to get by (doing it in my head). I can add and subtract large numbers quickly using them. For these I could convert percentage to decimal easy enough, but then need paper and pen to multiply....like Rabbit it starts to give me a headache,lol.

So .009 I would round off to .01 and say 1 in just over 10,000 people.