Little known story about the person with the highest IQ in the world recognized by Guinness

Marilyn vos Savant is recognized as the person with the highest IQ in the world. This gives her aura as well as a lot of trouble.

American author Marilyn vos Savant is famous for being the highest IQ owner in the world as noted by Guinness Book of Records. She held the title for almost 5 years before the item was removed from Guinness.

Not graduated from university

Marilyn vos Savant was born in 1946 in St. Petersburg. Louis, Missouri, USA. She carries the surname Savant because the family has a male tradition according to their father and mother family.

Marilyn carries the blood of Italy, Czechoslovakia, Germany and has an Austrian ancestry. According to the Chicago Tribune, she is a descendant of physicist, philosopher Ernst Mach.

Possessing IQ is twice as high as a normal person, but Marilyn never graduated from college.

From a young age, she was very intelligent and had a great passion for Mathematics and Science. At the age of 10, "little scholar" performed two Stanford-Binet IQ tests. The results show that Marilyn has the intelligence equivalent to 22 years and 11 months. With 228 , Marilyn is the child with the highest IQ ever.

However, prodigies are not aware of that.'At that time, nobody said anything to me. I thought this was a common indicator that many others achieved , 'she said.

She still spends most of her time working in her father's laundromat and earning extra income by collaborating with local newspapers.

At the age of 16, Marilyn married before attending Meramec Community College and moved to pursue a philosophy in Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Louis.

But despite having an IQ twice as high as a normal person, American prodigies have never graduated from university. She dropped out of school after two years and started building her own finance through investment and real estate.

Within 5 years, she accumulated enough to support herself and to pursue her writing career. She wrote novels, short stories, collaborated with magazines, major newspapers about political satire.

By 1985, she was famous when the Guinness Book of World Records recorded the highest IQ on the planet. The name Marilym vos Savant became the focus of the media.

At the same time, two children from her first marriage had grown up. Marilyn decided to move to New York City, enjoying her new, well-known life.

In 1986, the world's highest IQ owner started work on answering questions submitted by readers to Parade magazine. It is worth mentioning, after Marilyn's profile journal, the 'smartest person on the planet' quickly attracted a large audience.

The Ask Marilyn category is officially open, a place to answer questions about all areas, from quizzes to life problems. American genius associated with the column for about 30 years. This is also her greatest career.

In 1987, she married her third husband, surgeon Robert K. Jarvik, and became the CFO of Jarvik Heart Group. The next time, she took part in the board of directors of the National Economic Education Council, the advisory board for the National Association for Talented Children.

In 2003, Marilyn vos Savant received an honorary doctorate from the University of New Jersey.

Doubt about the intellectual wisdom

Possessing a high IQ and being praised for supernatural wisdom, Marilyn vos Savant inevitably has trouble coming from the genius.

Many people expect her to be a mobile encyclopedia or a living computer.

She has repeatedly stated that IQ is not a determinant of all and besides her smart index, she is completely normal like many others. In addition, IQ tests are also unreliable.

'People expect me to be a mobile encyclopedia or a living computer, something very mysterious. But really, I am not, 'said Marilyn.

Besides, high IQ does not help her avoid mistakes. Once, when talking about the house she used to live in St. Louis, Marilyn described 'that's where you can see the stars, not like here. In New York, we only see Venus' . Immediately, the former prodigy admitted that he said wrong, Venus is not the star.

She wrote a series of plays, wrote nearly 10 books, but never published a lecture, discussing culture, history, politics. Humility, calmness makes people often forget her superhuman intellectual property.

But no matter how humble she is, she still does not avoid special attention from some individuals. Many people have asked questions with such a rare brain, why Marilyn vos Savant does not pursue any higher goals but always stick with question and answer categories.

In 1995, Herb Weiner, a software engineer in Portland, Oregon, created a website: Marilyn is Wrong (Marilyn mistakenly) to search for errors in the process of answering readers' questions. He said that the high IQ was not the reason for others to trust absolute Marilyn.

However, what really makes the engineer uncomfortable is that she is only in charge of a section of the magazine instead of doing bigger things like many other geniuses do.

It is also an excuse for Herb Weiner to think about Marilyn's wisdom about the removal of the item The highest IQ in the world in 1990.

He said this decision showed that the index was not reliable and it also ensured that no one had a chance to defeat Marilyn vos Savant to win the title of "the smartest person on the planet".

Of course, Weiner's actions were not unfounded. In fact, Marilyn also made mistakes in the process of answering readers' questions. With each mistake being pointed out, the genius girl studied carefully and frankly admitted.

Faced with academic persecution

What happened to her in 1990 was a terrible nightmare, a true academic persecution.

In September of that year, when Marilyn answered the readers' questions about the classic Monty Hall probability problem, she never expected it to bring such great trouble.

Marilyn's genius vos Savant was heavily criticized by academics .

The puzzle is as follows: Suppose you take a TV game. The host shows you one of the three reward doors. After a door is a new car, after the other two doors are two goats.

You choose the first door. The host knew what was behind the door and said after the third door was a goat and asked if you wanted to change the option.

The question asked by readers is whether the selection will help players win more.

Marilyn replied: 'The player should change. Selecting the first door, he has a third chance of winning but the chance of winning the 2nd door is 2/3 '.

Although the outstanding woman gave the correct answer, her answer was not acknowledged. In return, she received more than 10,000 feedback letters with heavy slander. Many people call her 'snobbish fool'.

Even the deputy director of the National Information Center at that time and a researcher from the National Institutes of Health also sent letters, saying that she did not have the capacity.

Dr. Scott Smith from the University of Florida participated in this criticism. According to him, the change does not make sense, the odds of winning at two doors are the same.

He wrote: 'She exaggerated her ability so much that she did not seem to grasp the basic principle of probability. This country has too many math blind people. We don't need more "the world's highest IQ" to join the team.

Many sarcastic scholars Marilyn should read the textbooks or ask high school students for help.

'She answered wrong but looked at the positive, if all other doctors were wrong, our country would really be in serious trouble,' said Dr. Everett Harman of the US Military Research Institute.

Opposition from scholars was so intense that Marilyn vos Savant had to spend the next three periods explaining her reasoning. Even if the answer was clear, she was constantly disturbed.'I think she is still wrong, obviously, the woman's way of thinking , ' a reader contemptuously.

Monty Hall and Marilyn's answer continue to be debated for the next 25 years. It is integrated into student work for thousands of classes across the country. People also built computer programs to prove Marilyn's inference. The rate of her supporters gradually increased.

At the end of 1992, the proportion of readers agreeing with the Marilyn response increased from 8% to 56%. At research institutes, this number increased from 35% to 71%.

Robert Sachs, a mathematics professor at George Mason University, is one of those who changed their minds. Unlike the initial disparaging words, when he realized he was wrong, he immediately sent another letter expressing repentance.

'After escaping the original blindness, I am learning to be humble. I vow to repent and be ready to answer all the questions asked by others (related Monty Hall). This is indeed a great shame for a scholar , 'Sachs wrote.

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