Outliers: The Story of Success · chapter 3 · id outliers-c3-07-richard-feynmans-reported-iq-o
“Richard Feynman's reported IQ of 125 is frequently cited as evidence that Nobel laureates need not have extraordinary IQ scores, but this score came from a single school-administered test and may not reflect his actual cognitive ability.”
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Root-Bernstein (2015) reported IQs in the 120s for James Watson and Richard Feynman. However, these scores typically came from group-administered school IQ tests, which have lower ceilings and lower reliability than individually administered tests.
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