In 2009, there were 23 decabillionaires in America according to authoritative Forbes magazine:
1 | William Gates III | 50,000 | 53 | Medina | Microsoft |
2 | Warren Buffett | 40,000 | 79 | Omaha | Berkshire Hathaway |
3 | Lawrence Ellison | 27,000 | 65 | Redwood City | Oracle |
4 | Christy Walton & family | 21,500 | 54 | Jackson | Wal-Mart |
5 | Jim C. Walton | 19,600 | 61 | Bentonville | Wal-Mart |
6 | Alice Walton | 19,300 | 60 | Fort Worth | Wal-Mart |
7 | S. Robson Walton | 19,000 | 65 | Bentonville | Wal-Mart |
8 | Michael Bloomberg | 17,500 | 67 | New York | Bloomberg |
9 | Charles Koch | 16,000 | 73 | Wichita | manufacturing, energy |
9 | David Koch | 16,000 | 69 | New York | manufacturing, energy |
11 | Sergey Brin | 15,300 | 36 | Palo Alto | |
11 | Larry Page | 15,300 | 36 | San Francisco | |
13 | Michael Dell | 14,500 | 44 | Austin | Dell |
14 | Steven Ballmer | 13,300 | 53 | Seattle | Microsoft |
15 | George Soros | 13,000 | 79 | Westchester | hedge funds |
16 | Donald Bren | 12,000 | 77 | Newport Beach | real estate |
17 | Paul Allen | 11,500 | 56 | Mercer Island | Microsoft, investments |
17 | Abigail Johnson | 11,500 | 47 | Boston | Fidelity |
19 | Forrest Edward Mars | 11,000 | 78 | McLean | candy, pet food |
19 | Jacqueline Mars | 11,000 | 70 | Bedminster | candy, pet food |
19 | John Mars | 11,000 | 73 | Arlington | candy, pet food |
22 | Carl Icahn | 10,500 | 73 | New York | leveraged buyouts |
23 | Ronald Perelman |
Of these, only the following 13 appear to be self-made:
1. William Gates
2. Warren Buffet
3. Lawrence Ellison
4. Michael Bloomberg
5. Sergey Brin
6.Larry Page
7.Michael Dell
8.Steven Ballmer
9. George Soros
10. Donald Bren
11. Paul Allen
12. Carl Icahn
13. Ronald Perelman
Now what’s astonishing is that with the exception of Allen, Gates and Buffet, all of them are more or less Jewish. Despite being 2% of America, Jews (as of 2009) are 77% of self-made decabillionaires.
So we see that as we move up America’s economic ladder, from the homeless, to the general population, to billionaires, to self-made decabillionaires, we see that the percentage of lowest IQ race (blacks) goes from 45% to about 14% to 0.25% to 0% while the percentage of the highest IQ race (Jews) goes from perhaps close to 0%, to 2%, to about 36%, to 77%. See pie charts below (click for larger view):

Source for the data:
http://www.povertyliving.com/2013/03/homeless-statistics-in-the-united-states/
Clearly, life is an IQ test, and money is how we keep score, because from an evolutionary perspective, intelligence is the mental ability to adapt; to take whatever situation you’re in, and turn it around to your advantage.
And what is more advantageous than money? Money buys mansions overlooking the Pacific ocean on one side and the mountains on the other. Money buys private jets and fancy cars. Money buys the best food, and the best servants, and politicians who impose your world views, scientists and research labs to explore all your questions, and media platforms to spread your ideas. It buys the best health care for yourself and all you love, and buys the freedom to retire early. It even buys love and better teeth, the perfect body without exercise and youth (plastic surgery).
If you know where to shop, money is the solution to virtually all our problems, and smart people, as good problem solvers, tend to get money.
This is such common sense, it’s entered the culture with sayings like “if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?” and “a fool and his money are soon parted”. Money is the most universal measure of success, so if IQ tests are valid measure of the cognitive ability to adapt & problem solve, then high IQ races should have solved the problem of getting money more effectively than low IQ races, and that’s exactly what we find.
And even more astonishing, arguably the biggest brained member of the entire black race (and the entire female sex), is almost always the only African American on Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans, and was, from 2004 to 2006, the World’s ONLY black billionaire (excluding two hybridized blacks with less than 50% sub-Saharan ancestry), and the most influential woman on the planet according to Time magazine.
However not even big brained Oprah has made it to the absolute top of American wealth: Decabillionaire level which is a level of success currently achieved by only whites and Jews.
Given that U.S. Jews have an average IQ of 110 but a race IQ of 130 (the IQ Jews would have if the correlation between race and IQ were perfect) and U.S. whites have an IQ of 100, but a race IQ of 106, the fact that self-made decabillionaires are 77% Jewish and 23% white means they have an average race IQ of 0.77(130) + 0.23(106) = 124, which is 28 points above the U.S. mean of 96.
But since race IQ only correlates 0.48 with general intelligence which correlates 0.9 with IQ, we must divide those 28 points by 0.48 then multiply by 0.9 to see that the average self-made decabillionaire has an IQ 53 points above the U.S. mean of 96:
96 + 53 = 149
In other words, the average U.S. self-made decabillionaire has an IQ of about 150 (by definition, only one in 2000 U.S. whites has an IQ this high)
Of course all of this assumes that the high “race IQ” of self-made decabillionaires is nothing more than a byproduct of capitalism selecting for IQ, allowing one to assume race is just a regressed correlate of intelligence that has to be “unregressed” from the mean through division.
Of course I’m not dumb enough to think that the racial composition of the super rich is explained entirely by IQ, otherwise, there would be other high IQ groups represented such as East Asian Americans who score higher than whites and Indian Americans who may score as high as Jews.
Clearly Jews are over-represented among the super rich, even controlling for IQ, but because other high IQ races are under-represented, controlling for IQ, it seems to cancel itself out, and the average IQ of a highly selected groups is often deducible from the average race IQ of the group. For example, using racial composition of the homeless, I was able to infer they have an average IQ of about 75, which has been confirmed by actual IQ testing of the homeless.
Evidence that self-made decabillionaires have an average IQ around 150 comes from the fact that as of 2009, at least two of the 13 (Bill Gates and Paul Allen) reportedly scored between 1590-1600 on the older much harder pre-1995 SAT; roughly equivalent to an IQ of 170. Assuming the IQs of self-made decabillionaires are roughly normally distributed with a standard deviation of about 15 IQ points, then if the top 15% have IQs around 170, the average IQ should easily be at least 150 (though Gates and Allen might be outliers and their scores are impossible to confirm).
The evidence that IQ and money are linked is overwhelming, and comes from multiple sources. The next time someone tells you the correlation is weak, tell them that the average self-made decabillionaire might be an astonishing FIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS (75 IQ points) smarter than the average homeless, and ask them “if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
Brilliant post! I think it’s interesting how you’ve tied several of your previous posts together into this one post.
Of course, this analysis doesn’t explain what factors make certain high IQ races very successful (Jews) and other ones only moderately successful (Chinamen and Brahmin Indians). But the idea of predicting the average IQ of various types of groups from racial makeup is interesting nonetheless, and you should do it more in the future.
I have an idea. For instance, predict the average IQ of successful rappers based on your race IQ concept. Look at only the most financially successful ones, all of whom happen to be self-made. And see if that matches what you’d expect based on their income levels.
Do the same for mathematics professors based on race IQ. Do that for several professions to come up with a measure of how much a profession overpays or underpays relative to the IQs of the people in the profession.
Brilliant post! I think it’s interesting how you’ve tied several of your previous posts together into this one post.
Thank you!
Of course, this analysis doesn’t explain what factors make certain high IQ races very successful (Jews) and other ones only moderately successful (Chinamen and Brahmin Indians).
Exactly, but my hope is that races that overachieve relative to their IQs, and races that underachieve relative to their IQs, will cancel out in different fields in the aggregate data, so for example, doctors and lawyers probably both average IQ 125. Doctors might have more Indians than expected for their IQ and fewer Jews than expected, while lawyers might have more Jews than expected for their IQ but fewer Indians, but, if this concept works, will have a racial composition equally indicative of IQ 125.
And similarly at the low end. Some low IQ achievements (i.e. teen pregnancy) might have too many blacks, but not enough Native Americans and Hispanics, and other low IQ achievements (illiteracy) might have fewer than the expected number of blacks, but too many Hispanics and Native Americans, but as long as you have the expected percentage of low IQ race people dominating the low IQ achievement, and the expected number of high IQ race people dominating the high IQ achievement, it matters little which particular low or high IQ race shows up, because they’re interchangeable.
I have an idea. For instance, predict the average IQ of successful rappers based on your race IQ concept. Look at only the most financially successful ones, all of whom happen to be self-made. And see if that matches what you’d expect based on their income levels.
The idea is that if a particular achievement is selecting for general intelligence (g), it will weakly select for race indirectly, and from the indirect selection for race, I can infer the direct selection for g. Now if I tried this method on successful rappers, almost all of them are black, which would imply an extremely low average IQ which is nonsense
And that illustrates the limits of my method. It only works for achievements where race is selected only through its correlation with intelligence. In a field like rap, race is selected via its correlation with hip hop culture, so even though based on the IQ requirements of rap, it should be selecting for fewer blacks, the cultural requirements cause black domination.
Do the same for mathematics professors based on race IQ. Do that for several professions to come up with a measure of how much a profession overpays or underpays relative to the IQs of the people in the profession.
Yes, this could work if I find the data. And of course I would have to exclude affirmative action professors, since they’re directly selected for race and would thus skew the numbers
The idea is that if a particular achievement is selecting for general intelligence (g), it will weakly select for race indirectly, and from the indirect selection for race, I can infer the direct selection for g. Now if I tried this method on successful rappers, almost all of them are black, which would imply an extremely low average IQ which is nonsense
Of course. I guess want I wanted to see is how exactly much the race IQ of top rappers under-predicts what they actually achieve in terms of income. And how much the Asianess/Jewishness of top academic fields over-predicts their income. And then figure out why some fields with low race IQ over-perform in terms of income and others with high race IQ underperform (I think most people can already have an intuition why, though.)
*what I wanted
Don’t Jewish people have notoriety for being greedy and stingy as well as financially exploitative?
Pingback: Oprah’s IQ | Pumpkin Person
But…… Sample Size!!!
Interesting. Where do you get 130 iq for india. Even at most selective indian institutes, average is 109 .I. e. Equal to us high school grads. If indian iq = ashknazi iq, why indians despite a 2.5 mn population resident in us (ashknazi jews are six mn), have achievements similar to them.
What was the average background of these billionaire classes?
How did they build their wealth and how much of that was circumstantial? For instance, Bill Gates couldn’t invent Microsoft if someone else did. Bill Gates would have to invent something different. Also, without the specific legal climate and culture in place at his time and specific kinds of support, he would be virtually “meaningless” with respects to the metrics being discussed.
I have an iq of 165 , i’m not rich, i’m a good person.
God bless you!!
What a load of bullcrap hahaha xD
First, not one of these guy even has above 150. (and neither do you, “Tiger”)
Second, Bill Gates along with all other billionaires, is credited for stuff he never made 🙂 Windows was nothing new and he certainly didn’t revolutionarize anything.
Being a billionaire means being an opportunist and crushing others.
US citizens probably have an average of 80 IQ (they’re pretty dumb as a whole).
beeing selfmade rich is not just about intelligence, it’s more about persistence(fanatism) and social networks. jews stick together, they do business together and help each other.
Ah, here we go again. The idea that if you’re really rich it must be because you’re really smart. I’m convinced the average decabillionaire doesn’t have anything close to an IQ of 150. In that list the ones I think that might have an IQ of 150 or more are Gates, Brin and Allen.
Several of the people in this list have verified IQ of over greater than 160
jeff bezos looks like iq 100-110 guy
I disagree entirely. Blacks have the largest brains along with eastern Europeans . Blacks also invented electricity “bagdad batteries” Plumbing and writing as we know it . If you want to make a smart person dumb Lie to them. For years American africans had laws to prevent wealth. This had created heart 💔 pain and suffering to this day . If you base what is smart on money you are an ignorant man .
Actually mongoloids & caucasoids have the biggest brains