Commenter Ainttellin wrote:
Hey PP, random question, whereabouts would you predict the IQ of Ken Jennings (Jeopardy G.O.A.T.) to be. Here’s a clip that blew me away:
James Holzhauer (2nd best) claimed he tested in at 158. Both James and Ken seem to have incredible memories for facts, but aren’t necessarily creative geniuses. It’s an interesting sort of intelligence, which I’d like to get your take on.
Virtually all of the questions of Jeopardy! resemble tests of General Information which been a staple of IQ tests since WWI. So Jennings being arguably the best Jeopardy! player out of all 245 million U.S. adults is like scoring +5.73 standard deviations on an Information test. Given that in Jennings’s age group, the Information subtest on the WAIS-IV IQ test correlates 0.69 with full-scale IQ (after correcting for the fact that said subtest is used to calculate said IQ), we’d expect Jennings’s full-scale IQ to be 0.69(+5.73 SD) = +3.95 SD or IQ 159 (U.S. norms); 95% confidence interval: 137 to 181.
Speaking of Jeopardy!, the show’s long-time Canadian host Alex Trebek passed away several days ago. He will be missed by millions. Here’s rare footage of him talking to Oprah way back in 1984, before her show went national:
Years later I recall some celebrity bragging to Oprah that she was a Jeopardy! question to which Oprah replied, “I was a Jeopardy! category”.
Pumpkin Person 
“Given that in Jennings’s age group, the Information subtest on the WAIS-IV IQ test correlates 0.69 with full-scale IQ (after correcting for the fact that said subtest is used to calculate said IQ)”
Pepe, what formula is used to correct for this? Thx
Don’t know but the reference provided (in one of the wechsler manuals) is p. 164 of the 1955 book Psychological statistics by Q McNemar.
Dope thanks
That book is from 1955! How in the hell would you characterize that as being credible enough to extrapolate from.
I suppose theyre entirely right when they say common sense is lost on those who are wickedly intelligent.
Losette son
When you die your parents will do a party
Useless weight in their backs
Euclid’s geometry was written thousands of years ago and it’s still usable for some problems today. Basics never change.
I actually tried out for college jeopardy not too long ago.
I did well on the online test and qualified for the in-person audition. I thought I did really well, but the moment I got there I knew I wasn’t Jeopardy material. Most people had seen every episode since they were like 12 and I hadn’t watched a single show in at least 4 years.
They deserved it a lot more.
I love how your post somehow still ended up being about Oprah.
Me too.
This obsession is beyond my understanding.
I’m still convinced his fawning over Oprah is just a beard to cover for his edgy views on black IQ.
trabek’s disease was pancreatic cancer which also felled steve jobs, RBG, michael landon, patrick swazy, benjamin orr, BUT…
what?
there are…STFU…
of all cancers classified by organ, pancreatic cancer is the deadliest…
there are types, but…
what happens is…
the pancreas can tolerate cancer until it’s spread to the liver.
my next door neighbor died before i knew he was sick.
but he was a somker, a yuge risk factor.
benjamin orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer at age 53 and he was the lead vocals of the cars'(s) two best songs.
but i can’t find the link because male lesbians.
sad!
i mean it’s sad that they will be gasses.
shit happens!
aryan happens!
What is This
An echo of insanity for sure
autism is sad.
i know from an “incident” in my own life in college.
there were these incredibly horny ugly girls…i called them “muffs”.
what happened next was a bunch of nude man pictures stuck to my dorm room door and people trying to break through.
where did those pictues come from? they weren’t printed. they were from magazines.
did the muffs get their gay guy friend to put this shit on my door and slam into it?
no!
women have to learn that men aren’t whores.
i hate typing.
do i have to “spell it out” for you?
Jeff bezos is a Jew, the richest man in the world and he has a half Chinese daughter. I wonder what her IQ is?
According to a quick Google search regarding him being Jewish and having a Chinese daughter, one finds that he is actually not Jewish and the Chinese daughter is adopted.
He has three kids with his former wife, Mackenzie Bezos. The Chinese one is adopted as mentioned above.
Well that makes more sense thanks
God MeLo read a book for once! Jk. And no worries sometimes we all forget that the truth is just one Google search away from being manifested.
So pathetic loser son
i think tucker quit.
thank God.
Jeopardy is a bit weird with how youre supposed to respond. The gameshows popular here are Who wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link – straightforward Q&As, Theres also a board game Trivial Pursuit which I’m quite good at.
Regis Philbin, the original host of american Millionaire, also died this year.
After they got rid of Regis and then Meredith Vieira, they switched up the format a lot which ruined the show. You guys stuck with the original format though.
Waiting lolser and its childish retard-like insultz
Please, don’t post your ugly face again
Nobdy cares about you
Really
I think Cooijmans is a good example of how super high IQ aspies can actually be pretty perceptive.
Some of his ideas are really dumb (votes weighted by IQ, aborting fetuses with “crime genes”) but his characterization of the Conventional Wisdom is spot-on. He’s incapable of lying so he’s completely immune to propaganda.
Chomsky’s sorta the same. Contra pp I don’t see him as a dishonest ethnic activist. He says what he genuinely believes.
But he sometimes gets mislead because he has the aspie tendency to hold onto one piece of evidence and take it to absurd conclusions without looking for other information.
Like he’ll use an ambiguous “state department memo” to infer 15 different war crimes without pausing to think how silly that sounds.
I find chomsky boring
If you believe he’s incapable of lying you might have a tad bit of Asperger’s too. I don’t think anyone can truly be incapable of lying whatsoever. Im sure he’s exaggerating the truth on his end.
And I think Cooijmans belief that aborting fetuses leads to lower crime is actually a reliable statement and voting weighted by IQ is quite an impressive idea as well. But then again these are all subjective.
“Incapable to lie = completely imune on propaganda”
Cooijmans think conserfs are good progressives are bad. Common.
Do you really think just leftists who lie??
And that they are never capable to say truths??
Redpilled = “alternatve” right??
Of course not. Conservatives can be just as dishonest as leftists.
I shoulda said he never tries to be dishonest. And afact he sees things completely dispassionately. Some of his premises are just wrong.
Can be
No
They are
But because they are far less sensible they tend to be appear more convincing.
Ordinary leftist is basically what RR is.
Most of your audience is american, PP
my liver does have fat but no detectable scars.
but untrasound can miss small scars.
bezos not a jew.
but wikipedia (still?) claimed gundlach was a jew iirc.
gundlach is my favorite billionaire.
gundlach KNOWS!
“bonds are the truth.” — pal
gundlach claims he was an actuary.
the records might be online.
what exams did he pass?
what did he score?