I used to think Megyn Kelly had an IQ equivalent of around 133 (white norms), because I thought she claimed to have scored at the 95 percentile on the LSAT, but upon listening carefully to her interview with Howard Stern, she actually claims to have scored scored at “only” the 85th percentile and on the SAT, not the LSAT (see 8:45 mark in below video)
That’s still a very good score, though not quite good enough to qualify as Extremely Bright. About one in seven SAT takers scored as high or higher than Megyn, but since only one third of U.S. teens took the SAT, and virtually 100% of the top talent did (and whatever shortfall, was negated by bright foreign test takers, Ron Hoeflin argued), the rarity of Megyn’s score triples when compared to all Americans of her cohort (not just the college bound third).
Thus being in the top 15% of SAT takers might have been crudely equivalent to being in the top 5% of her entire U.S. cohort, and thus equivalent to IQ 125 (U.S. norms; 124 U.S. white norms). I suspect Megyn’s IQ is typical of U.S. media elites, though Megyn is more successful than most because in addition to being smarter than 95% of her generation, she’s better looking than perhaps 99%. That’s a powerful combination.
Meanwhile Howard Stern is perhaps the biggest ass-kisser in the history of media. Although he prides himself in being a media bad boy and rebel, he’s actually a boot-licker in the extreme, and a vulgar and crude one to boot. He can’t stop gushing about how smart and good looking Megyn is, and how hot Stern’s wife thinks Megyn is. He also gushes over the good looks of male stars too, and it’s embarrassing, and while this comes across as the authentic hero worship, it’s also a calculated attempt to get powerful celebrities to befriend him. I suspect Stern’s Theory of Mind IQ is a lot higher than his overall IQ though his use of it is shameless.
Although I do have some grudging respect for his black co-host Robin Quivers. While she obviously has some talent and the two of them have genuine chemistry, let’s be honest: she’s also largely a token he uses to avoid looking racist and sexist when he rips on blacks and women. And she shrewdly sucks up to him to keep the money rolling in, but deep down you can tell she doesn’t respect him and is forcing herself to laugh at his jokes.
One of the funniest moments in media history was when former daytime talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael invited Robin on her show, and went Robin appeared on TV, the Sally’s show placed the caption “I hate my race” under Robin’s image. What evidence did they have that Robin hates her race? The mere fact that she works for Howard. LOL. When Stern heard about this he went ballistic:
Pumpkin Person 
What is “theory of mind IQ” and what is the correlation with regular IQ? Got a source for “theory of mind IQ”?
What has howard said that was racist?
I used to listen to his show a small bit. He’s a good interviewer.
Remember his TV show from the mid 90s? The name escapes me at the moment, but it had to do with sex.
Also
>Stern
I don’t care about her SAT score. She SOUNDS smarter than most journalists. She’s very quick on her feet. Asks good questions and gives witty rejoinders. She’s definitely smart.
She does ‘sound smart’. More often than not, if someone is intelligent you can hear it in their voice and how they carry themselves.
Yea, if you wanna know how smart someone is, just talk to them. A lot of people score high on tests but they aren’t too subtle… They are “smart” on paper. Others probably underperform on tests relative to their intelligence.. There are many layers to a person’s intelligence.
She does ‘sound smart’. More often than not, if someone is intelligent you can hear it in their voice and how they carry themselves.
A lot of times when we say someone “sounds smart” or remark that they carry themselves in an intelligent way, we’re really saying they come from an upper middle class background and were taught at a young age to present themselves in their best light. Malcolm Gladwell did an excellent job explaining this in Outliers when he examined the differences between the three groups of “Termites.”
Of course, people from higher social castes are probably more likely to carry genes responsible for intelligence to begin with, so there is that as well.
I have a love/hate relationship with Howard Stern. On the one hand, I truly find him to be a deplorable person for reasons completely unrelated to his vulgarity. On the other, I admit his show makes for great entertainment at times and I have been a listener since 1997.
Meanwhile Howard Stern is perhaps the biggest ass-kisser in the history of media. Although he prides himself in being a media bad boy and rebel, he’s actually a boot-licker in the extreme, and a vulgar and crude one to boot.
Even by show business standards, Howard is one of the most inauthentic people who has ever lived. His physical appearance is actually a good place to begin the examination of his character. We’re frequently told you can’t judge a book by its cover; I beg to differ. Howard’s appearance—or more aptly, his modifications thereof—provide a window of keen insight as to the workings of his mind.
His face is a case study in experimental plastic surgery. He denied getting cosmetic surgery until 2006, at which point he only admitted to a nose job and liposuction on his chin. It’s obvious that he is lying and his habitual reiteration of this lie is actually quite insulting to the intelligence of his listeners.
Examine the timeline of changes to his face. He could rival Michael Jackson in a face morph time lapse animation.
It’s even more insulting that he expects people to believe his repeated assertion that he doesn’t wear a wig (even though his hairline is currently three inches lower than it was in 1997 and his facial hair is now completely grey).
Of course, he also uses studio magic to lower his voice by several octaves, resulting in a very compressed sounding voice when he’s on the air. You can spot the difference by comparing a clip of his voice from the early 90s with a later clip.
Example:
To his credit, those clips offer a glimpse of his sick genius: he’s an expert at exploiting other people’s misery for his own gain. Actually, I accuse your beloved Oprah of doing the same, PP; even her tears feel rehearsed to me. Howard just doesn’t take pains to mask what an evil bastard he is when he’s exploiting powerless people (that is, non celebrities).
So, to summarize: Howard’s face, hair and voice are fake. His radio personality, now that he’s “America’s judge” is fake, but then, it was equally fake when he was the shock jock who would dare anything. He also lied for years to anyone who would listen by claiming to only be half Jewish. It all paints the picture of a guy filled with immense self loathing. Or maybe it’s just immense resentment for his parents, who he frequently ridicules on the air.
One interesting thing about Howard is that his subreddit /r/HowardStern is filled with people like me. That is, people who may be considered hardcore fans yet who are also disgusted by almost everything about him, not least his glaring lack of authenticity. He must be doing something right to retain us as listeners!
https://www.reddit.com/r/howardstern/