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An example answer from Liam Hudson, included answers ranging from "violent imagery to sex to people jumping off buildings."

When a similar question was asked to prodigy Florence (a boy with the highest iq in his school), his answers were ordinary.

This has taught me that even though someone's iq is above another's, both can still be above threshold.

Relating to my previous post, some of the other things that may matter besides iq include creativity, because plainly scoring high on tests doesn't get you anywhere. For example a creativity/divergence test may include a question that asks:

Write down as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects:

1. a brick
2. a blanket

Relating to the idea I mentioned earlier, the author states that if iq only matters up to a certain point, then past that certain point, other things that have nothing to do with iq must start to matter more.

We can relate this idea to basketball again: When somebody is tall enough to play basketball, then other things such as speed, court sense, agility, ball handling, shooting,and awareness start to matter more.

I learned that most nobel prize winners come from Harvard University,

The book explains a key principle that iq is useless up to a certain point. A basketball player must be tall, but a 6'10" player has no significant advantage over a player that is 6'8". This is similar with iq. A person with an iq of 200 has no significant advantage over a person with an iq of 180.

I'm surprised how smart Chris Langan is. The book provided some iq puzzles that he was able to solve and to say the least, I'm impressed.

I like the person Chris langan. It's cool how his iq is above 200

I never knew that the Beatles started their career in a night club.

Bill Gates is only so famous because of the series of lucky events that occurred in his life. I never knew that.