You know you're itching to see if you would beat Donald Trump. By Linnea Zielinski , Metro What’s the average IQ? If Pr...
You know you're itching to see if you would beat Donald Trump.
By Linnea Zielinski, Metro
What’s the average IQ?
If President Trump’s going to start a new trend of
challenging people based on IQ test scores, you might want to know what
you’re up against.
Why are we talking about Donald Trump’s IQ?
[post_ads]In case you missed it, Trump has a long history of daring
people to compare IQ scores, deriding others based on his assumptions
about their IQ scores and boasting loudly about his own sky-high score,
which he claims is “one of the highest.”
Well, he did it again. Following reports that Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “moron” (or “f—ing moron” depending
on the report) in a closed door meeting with the president’s security
team, Trump took to Twitter to challenge Tillerson. Mensa’s totally on
board to test both of the bureaucrats, in case you’re wondering, though
neither have taken the organization up on their offer as of Wednesday,
October 11.
But even if answering the question what is Donald Trump’s
IQ is difficult, you’re probably curious as to where you stand compared
to the general population.
So, what’s the average IQ?
Yes, there is a scale for evaluating IQ test scores. Lewis
Terman, who came up with the idea for the IQ, proposed the scale. He
considered scores between 90 and 109 to be average. Anything below 70 is
considered well below average and potentially indicative of a cognitive
issue. Score 140 or above, on the other hand, and you fall into the
genius category. (Other scales set this ambitious mark at 145.) The
average person falls within a range of 85 to 115 on an IQ test. In fact,
70% of IQ scores are within this range.
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Richard Lynn, a British Professor of Psychology, and Tatu
Vanhanen, a Finnish Professor of Political Science conducted research on
IQ in 80 different countries around the world between 2002 and 2006.
Although they drew some controversial conclusions
from the data about the relationship between national IQ and income as
well as rate of economic growth, we’ll ignore those here and just look
at the averages they found while conducting IQ tests.
The average American, according to their findings, has an IQ score of 98, as IQ Research+ reports.
That lands the U.S. in ninth place among the countries studied — but
don’t get too excited, because multiple countries tied for multiple
places on this ranking.
The United States shared ninth place with Andorra,
Australia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Latvia and Spain.
The highest national average on the list? A solid 108, still considered
“average” by good old founding father of the IQ Terman.
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