Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Marilyn vos Savant on This Day in History


This Day In History: Marilyn vos Savant was born on this day in 1946. She is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the highest IQ (228). I have several of her books that make for great bathroom books as they are in short question and answer format...and the answers are often entertaining. "Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying."

MVS also gave the best explanation of wealth inequality there is:
Question: Why has the income disparity grown so much in developed countries?
Answer: I think the disparity is a normal result of overall economic growth. The bottom incomes (zero) can’t go lower, but the top incomes can go up and up. And so they do, of course.

See also: The Smartest People in History - 300 PDF Books on DVDrom
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-smartest-people-in-history-300-pdf.html

The Ultimate IQ Test Book
https://archive.org/details/TheUltimateIQTestBook


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