So I was flipping through the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans and most of the top 10 are centibillionaires:
Jeff Bezos $201 billion
Elon Musk $190.5 billion
Mark Zuckerberg $134.5 billion
Bill Gates $134 billion
Larry Page $123 billion
Sergey Brin $118.5 billion
Larry Ellison $117.3 billion
Warren Buffet $102 billion
Steve Balmer $96.5 billion
Michael Bloomberg $70 billion
Despite being 2 to 3% of America, Jews are an astonishing 60% of the top 10! Given that Jews have likely the highest IQ of any U.S. ethnic group, this dramatic overrepresentation suggests centibillionaires have very high IQs.
And indeed two members of the top 10 (Gates and Balmer) scored a perfect 800 on the pre-recentered math SATs which equates to a math IQ of roughly 154+ (U.S. norms). Elon Musk never took the SAT but if he had, he too would have likely scored 800 also considering he got the highest score they had ever seen on IBM’s computer aptitude test (at least if the tweets of his doting mother can be believed). Mark Zuckerberg is widely believed to have scored 800 on both sections of the SAT but the only source for this is the biopic The Social Network, and even if true, he took the easier recentered SAT, though still extremely impressive!
So let’s say about 30% of the 10 richest Americans (according to Forbes) have math IQ’s of 154+. In the general population, the top 30% are about 8 IQ points smarter than the average American, so assuming something similar in the centibillionaire population, the average math IQ should be 146.
Now usually when dealing with group data, it matters little whether you’re looking at math IQ, verbal IQ, spatial IQ, or just IQ. All these measures are so intercorrelated that they’re essentially interchangeable at the group level, however given that all these high math IQ centibillionaires earned their fortune in high tech, math IQ might give a biased measure. But given about a 0.9 correlation between math SAT and composite SAT, we can conservatively assume they have an average IQ of (0.9) 46 + 100 = 141 (U.S. norms; 140 U.S. white norms) though this feels like an over-correction.
To put this in perspective, the average U.S. homeless person has an IQ of about 80 (U.S. white norms).
If there were a perfect correlation between IQ and money, we’d expect a 129 point IQ gap between the 10 richest Americans and the poorest 0.17% (the homeless) but instead we get just under half of that, consistent with a correlation of 0.48 between IQ and permanent income, at least in men (the correlation in women is distorted by the fact that many enjoy money through marriage instead of direct earnings)
To quote Daniel Seligman, “people who are at the top in American life, are probably there because they’re more intelligent than the rest of us”
As I’ve said many times, intelligence is arguably the ability to adapt; to take whatever situation you’re in and turn it around to your advantage.
As for the conspiracy theorists who think there are secret billionaires even richer than Jeff Bezos, any errors on the Forbes list would likely have the effect of underestimating the correlation between IQ and money (unless this supposed hidden wealth is inherited or illegal).
Pumpkin Person 
So why am I not a centibillionaire? 😦
Because regression works both ways. Just as rich people have more money than smarts, smart people have more smarts than money.
ye :(((
& the correlation is at best linear. Whereas some correlation are non linear, even exponential.
Like shortness and dwarfism. Pass a certain height, you ll find exponentially less midgets and more dwarfs. Same at the other extreme with acromegaly.
I think about that because of another correlation, among IQ and mental health.
My intuition is that the correlation between IQ and mental health maybe be non linear and even very positive in a certain zone and then midly negative pass another point.
It may not be genetics but due to loneliness entailed by VHIQ …
PS: it doesn’t imply I suggest “The philosopher” is a genious 🙂
balmer ellison and page are half jews [redacted by pp, 2021-10-21]
that’s 3% and > 5% of whites.
“given that…”
this too is a lie. there are plenty of studies which find jews have lower IQs than larger subgroups of whites.
Jewish can be defined in different ways
#1) Anyone who subscribes exclusively to the Jewish faith or both considers themselves & at least one of their parents (or upbringing) to be Jewish. (2.4% of America)
#2) Anyone who subscribes exclusively to the Jewish faith or considers at least one of their parents (or upbringing) to be Jewish (3.5% of America)
https://www.pewforum.org/2021/05/11/the-size-of-the-u-s-jewish-population/
Balmer, Ellison & Page all fit the second definition and possibly the first one too.
Peeps I thought only gates and buffet are not jews, who else isnt?
Bezos & Musk
PP How the hell do you know they are not jews?
The totality of evidence shows U.S. Jews are at least half an SD above the U.S. white mean.
If 3% of a population represents 60% of the top 10, it means it does 48 times better than the rest.
With a 10 IQ points advantage, there is not point were that would be true in any possible world with a population of 330M (with a 10 IQ points advantage, you get a 48 times over-representation at the 190 IQ selection level)
With 16 IQ points, it’s imaginable but improbable because it’s a 160 IQ threshold (144 is around 1 in 600 and 160 is 1 in 30 000).
So the obvious conclusion is that Jew IQ is a fraction (probably much less than a third) of their success in reaching Wealth and Nobel-like Prizes peaks .
Peterson was really not genuine when tackling this subject.
peepee’s bizarre explanation of why ashkenazi jews in israel are dumber than she lies they are in the US and her obsession with everything [n word redacted by pp, 2021-10-21] is:
1. peepee is a [K word redacted by pp, 2021-10-21]
2. peepee is a low IQ psychopathic [n word redacted by pp, 2021-10-21] who hates wypipo
this site says the 95th percentile in canada is 128.6k CAD. and the canaddian ppp adjustment is almost nil.
The top 5% of income in Canada in 2021 = $128,634
https://www.thekickassentrepreneur.com/income-percentile-calculator-by-province-for-canada/
Jeff Bezos $201 billion retail
Elon Musk $190.5 billion manufacturing
Mark Zuckerberg $134.5 billion mass media
Bill Gates $134 billion systems software
Larry Page $123 billion mass media
Sergey Brin $118.5 billion mass media
Larry Ellison $117.3 billion applications software
Warren Buffet $102 billion investments
Steve Balmer $96.5 billion systems software
Michael Bloomberg $70 billion mass media
and unlike gates, ballmer was not a programmer. he was just a bean counter and salesman.
that non-technical people can be top man at technical cos is a sign of a shitty society.
after having a non-technical ceo for long time, INTC appointed a very technical CEO in january of this year. i expect INTC stock is a good investment as a result…where it has been an incredibly shitty investment for 20 years.
peepee is so incredibly afraid of jews or is a jew she won’t post the real reason why jews are so rich. GREED.
I believe high intelligence is correlated with being nonreactive.
Depends if youre introverted or extroverted
expand on that, please
Im highly reactive and appreciate when people are reactive in an informative or collaborative sense and that may mean the person is an extrovert because they engage with the outside world well. Introverts may be interactive with only internal phenomenon and therefore not engaged with the environment as much.
All being said there is a difference between how people behave in differing situations and choices including feelings and mentalities. But overall extroverts are less intelligent and will begin to deteriorate their capacities when trying to be understanding of so much stimuli.
what about being neurologically reactive
not reactionary politically / personality – but “(reactive in neurology)”
extrovert/introvert is an orientation, it is not a reactivity to in or out.
a reaction can be fast or slow but in neurology, if it is fast it makes you random.
it’s like this: sodium in water explodes, neurologically it’s like seizures.
reactivity is like a seizer, a reactive person has something random going on inside them, stopping them from thinking.
This is my explanation, what do you think?
i mean yeah intellectually demanding tasks require nonreactivity neurologically but you have the same case with introverts and extroverts. introverts are nonreactive neurologically but that is due to brain focus and activation right? so if you focus enough with reactivity it shouldnt make too much of a difference and maybe wont make you more intelligence but gives you more things to contemplate holistically.
So you thought Anime’s comments are worth publishing more than mine?
yes
Seriously?
Yes. He scored better on the social judgement test than you would. But that’s a very low bar.
Pepe, you said my score on the social judgment test wasn’t retard-level. So why am I always perceived as a social retard?
I guess the obvious answer is that my high IQ compensates for my Ass Burgers in some domains, but not in others. I might do well on a test of common life-skill judgments, but everyone who talks to me instinctively recognizes that there’s something off about me, no matter how hard I try to hide it.
I recognized there was something off with you when you kept your covid mask on during a youtube interview even though covid can’t be transmitted over the internet.
I wont know your exact social IQ until my social judgement test is normed. Bet even then it will only tell me your VERBAL social IQ. I also need to test your non-verbal social IQ to get a fuller picture.
Hahaha youre so cute.
The reason I kept my covid mask on was for some extra privacy from facial recognition tech. Kinda like you suggested to me a while back. I was well aware that covid can’t be transmitted over the internet or through my car windows haha
I wanted to appear by audio only, but the interviewer was insistent that I had to be on camera.
Non-verbal social IQ is probably where I’m lacking. Even reading emotions from facial expression is an uphill battle for me.
Come to think of it, my Internet connection during that over was over the cellular network, so I suppose it could have been a covid transmission vector if you buy into the 5G conspiracies
that interview*
People with Autism have a thicker cortex and abnormal white matter tracks. Temple Grandin has fibers back to the front of her brain. A connection vastly exaggerated because of her autism.
In schizophrenia, the cortex is thining in different areas creating a patchwork.
It is because of these asymmetries that conditions of mental health arise.
If my cortex is thicker than average and I have abnormalities in my white matter tracks then I have autism.
If I have thin spots in my cortex then I have schizophrenia.
If both then I don’t know what I have.
Then you have both like pill