I now have data on 12 people who have taken both my crossword puzzle and a well normed verbal intelligence test (SAT verbal, Wechsler verbal index, WAIS-IV Information, WAIS-IV Similarities). Nine of these people are self-reported scores from readers and three are from family members I personally witnessed taking both the crossword and a verbal test. The Pearson r correlation between the crossword scores and the verbal intelligence test scores is an astonishing 0.86 confirming once again that vocabulary is a powerful test of IQ.
When all the verbal test scores are converted to the Wechsler IQ scale (U.S. mean = 100; SD = 15) and plotted along the Y axis, and crossword scores (out of 17) are plotted on the X axis, we get a remarkably linear relationship.
Source: https://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/linear2/
The sample has a mean verbal IQ equivalent of 126 (SD 13.8) and a mean crossword score of 11 (SD 4.4). From here we can make some rough equivalencies:
0 = verbal IQ 92
1 = verbal IQ 95
2= verbal IQ 98
3 = verbal IQ 101
4 = verbal IQ 104
5 = verbal IQ 108
6 = verbal IQ 111
7 = verbal IQ 114
8 = verbal IQ 117
9 = verbal IQ 120
10 = verbal IQ 123
11 = verbal IQ 126
12 = verbal IQ 129
13 = verbal IQ 132
14 = verbal IQ 135
15 = verbal IQ 139
16 = verbal IQ 142
17= verbal IQ 145
Because all the words in the crossword were selected at random and thus have a true zero point (retrieving none of the words in the sample), we can say some interesting things about the distribution of receptive vocabulary. Someone with a verbal IQ of 111 (average U.S. university graduate) has roughly twice the receptive vocabulary of the average American.
Someone with a verbal IQ of 120 (average person with advanced degree) has roughly triple the receptive vocabulary of the average American. These large gaps help explain why society is so stratified along educational and occupational lines.
These norms probably work best for people just under 40. Those above 40 may deserve a bonus of perhaps 1 IQ point a decade since retrieval ability declines with older age.
Pumpkin Person 
110 is twice the vocab of IQ 100
120 is three times the vocab of IQ 100
130 is four times the vocab of IQ 100
140 is five times the vocab of IQ 100
20 thousand is the average vocab of IQ 100 so:
110 = 40 thousand words
120 = 60 thousand words
130 = 80 thousand words
140 = 100 thousand words
I’ve seen Animes comments for years now and this man is a mindless idiot.
did you even understand his comment?
are white people fatter and lazier than others? is this actually the solution 2 why their accomplishments are squandered 2wards uselessness.
All anime does is use his autism to quantify ridiculous arguments and assumptions you make puppy. You could literally say the sky is pink and anime would make an equation for that. He is a mindless autistic idiot.
“You could literally say the sky is pink”
Gorgeous!
i have a verbal IQ of 130. im only 27 so as the years go by i may be able 2 accumulate a very solid amount of words that ive crystallized.
my fluid verbal is higher than my crystallized something i suspect very few people have going 4 them!
pp
I got 140 on the information subtest on the wais 4
What is the statistical likelihood that this is higher or lower?
If higher, is this five(+) times the information of IQ 100?
This is awesome, PP! Thanks for putting this together.
I’ve noticed that there tend to huge vocabulary differences between smart and average people, and that average people are much more likely to mispronounce words, misuse them, invent similar-sounding ones that don’t exist, get the prefix/suffix wrong, etc. I never figured the differences were quite this stark, but come to think of it, your estimates make sense.
Glad you found it interesting!
Lots of non-verbally smart people who dont have a great vocab size.
spatial intelligence people do not need to be verbally smart?
A very bright writer or in a genius level dont need to be visuo-spatially bright so the same logics is applicable to the opposite case. But a visuo-spatial genius still need to have a minimally decent verbal intelligence to understand what he is reading and to be intelligible to other people.
this was a crystallized verbal IQ test i would suspect my crystallized verbal is 115 because i only got i think 7 right but my fluid verbal would be 145.
stark difference in my abilities but still a necessary one nonetheless.
my communication ability is very very good when people lemme speak otherwise we all just look foolish.
You literally think VIQ is memorising the dictionary. Do you understand how problematic that is? [redacted by pp, 2023-08-14] Great job.
David Weschler would laugh at this test.
“My “test” correlates with other (invalid) tests, so my “test” is an “IQ test.”
Wow, alert the psychometricians.
If the crossword were truly *random*, then there would be no coherence between the words on them. Great job… IQism gets worse by the day.
no you get worse by the day. youre mentally handicapped.
There is no coherence between the words on it
2 of words are Brit things… Sure thing.
In any case, do you know what a true 0 point entails?
I also agree with philosopher in your last discussion. What do you know about language use in the home and how it relates to social class? See
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2372732217720699
This yet again shows the folly of hereditarianism using biased tests to infer genetic influence on cognition—which is impossible.
Basically, familiarity with the items on the test is due to one’s social class and life experiences, and that’s the foundation for my DEC framework.
Just to be clear I believe you can test for verbal intelligence and strip out social class unlike RR. But a dictionary test will test for social class.
How would it be “truly random”?
Give us an example.
If the selection of words for the crossword puzzle were truly random, then each word’s choice is independent of external factors, including social class, and has an equal probability of being selected. Social class can influence word usage, vocabular comprehension, and exposure to certain types of words. People from different social classes are exposed to different vocabularies. Individuals from higher social classes have greater access to education and exposure to a broader range of vocabulary through literature, education, and cultural activities.
The influence of social class on word usage and comprehension could introduce a bias in the selection process, favoring words more commonly used in some social classes over others. A completely random selection process would need to account for the influence of social class on word usage and comprehension to be truly random.
Thus, considering the influence of social class on vocabulary usage and comprehension, it can be argued that the selection of words are not truly random not only in this crossword puzzle but any other test of vocabulary. Factors like social class introduce bias which impact the equality of word selection probabilities. This argument shows how social class affects word usage and comprehension, which leads to a lack of true randomness in PP’s little crossword puzzle which he claims is a “measure” of IQ due to the correlation between his little puzzle and (self-reported) SAT scores.
i have a naturally olive oiled skin tone as an Italian RR must be very jealous.
i tan very very easily but sometimes i burn 2 not nearly as much but its been very hot my skin tone is very dark now but i still have very nice skin tones where my skin hasnt been exposed although 4 Marsha and any other women reading my penis is very very dark colored.
i actually had my penis rated by a few women on those sexting sites and they loved the girth and stuff im not into r-selected things though i prefer my symmetrical face over everything else.
Youre not olive skinned dumbass. You are straight out south asian. I.e. brown.
How words are used matters.
But some words are more rare than others.
pp would need to go in-depth on probability maths to explain it all. Since we are not high level at the study of linguistics.
Highly inteligent people also can from to modest social backgrounds and lots of vulgar people come from very privileged backgrounds and the first tend to have better and bigger vocabulary than their social peers without the same cognitive levels. Actually and today what most influence vocabulary in social terms is not social class but intelectual class, even they are correlated. Always the problem of correlation or causation and also the difference between false and real correlation.
I dont deny that social class influence can and influence our vocabulary but you are claiming that it nas a absolutely decisive impact and or mostly explain these vocabulary differences and then verbal IQ differences.
Also it also suggest poor people can’t be smart or have a “better” vocabulary, seems like an elitist fallacy based on Bernard Shaw’ s play “Pygmalion”.
I agree there is a kind of elitism on this comparative psychometric analysis but i think it’s also more about the size of vocabulary per si and as i said verbally smart people like you tend to memorize rare words effortlessly even social class affluency can motivate people to be interested and use those words.
i am olive skinned you barking bitch! youre probably naturally darker than me i have fair skin you stupid motherfucker!
North Indians and Pathans (whom i consider both 2 be part of my genome) can have fair skin and add that 2 my Greek ancestry which produces olive skin in a rather mundane variety that eventually you get 2 having a guy like me who has very nice olive skin that tans very easily and is very aesthetically pleasing.
cmon man youve seen that picture of me do you not remember.
Jesus, i’m echoing oing oing
Pumpkin can you believe theyve completely denounced race science as true? ridiculous! i was reading through headlines and they said that race science in this headline specifically that brain size differences did not exist and they are made up!
i think 2 myself logically and ask why would anyone fabricate brain sizes etc. when the proof will always be in the pudding! HBD is clearly a fact!
no matter how many RRs there are 2 denounce such claims its ridiculous. 4 example we know penis size differences exist between races as merited by the race science denouncers themselves so how and why would anyone fail 2 recognize there are huge differences in how cognition works brain sizes etc. between races!
absolutely ridiculous!
I got 15/17 and i took the old sat (19080) when I was 26 yrs and 11 months of age.
why is racism amongst whites so prevalent? theyre such culturally backwards people that its funny 2 me that theyre always so bitter and racist especially the old r-selected ones.
its true when PP says racism is a shame and that racism is a low IQ trait.
its disgusting 2 see these white people treating me as if im the inferior and also not concluding that im K-selected Ubermensch in comparison 2 them!
white people are becoming degenerates with their pervasive dysgenics. its going 2 be a crazy world from now on.
White people are the least racist dumbass. 50 years of danish mind control.
no you fucking idiot its literal brainwashing that makes you think that whites are the least racist.
in fact they are still the most racist and the Jews have lost because of this very notion.
whites are by far the most instinctually tribal people therefore they can never have mind control or whatever the fuck stupid terms you use 2 have an effect on their racism.
whites are racist! they are [redacted by pp, 2023-08-15]. they are dysgenic. the list goes on you funky Irish bastard.
LOADED do you realize one of the main reasons the US bombs your brothers and sisters is because of the influence of Israel on the West?
PP approve my comment 2 Lurker i need him 2 know where we stand.
redact whatever parts you think are simply perverse but keep the parts that are necessary which i think there is a good chunk available.
Old Sat (1980) 620V 530M
is this Mug? i scored way better on the SAT and i know my intellect is 2 big 2 fail.
we can go bout 4 bout in terms of creativity though.
my intellect is high but my creativity is even higher. imagine how much of a creatively immense person i am and then realize that i could be a creative genius.
my imagination the one true thing in this Universe is unmatchable.
Hey Pumpkin, I got a 14/17 and I am in disbelief at that score. I’m no slouch at language, but math is more of my forte. One thing I will say is that the definitions only loosely matched their respective words.