What was Steve Jobs IQ?

"Steve Jobs likely had an IQ roughly 160 or above. In Walter Isaacson's biography, near the end of 4th grade, Jobs was tested. Jobs said: 'I scored at the high school sophomore level. ' This means he was a 4th grader performing at the 10th grade level.

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There's been some discussion about whether or not Steve Jobs was "conventionally" smart. It all started with Walter Isaacson's statement in the New York Times:

"So was Mr. Jobs smart? Not conventionally. Instead, he was a genius."

Christopher Shea at the Wall Street Journal and Sean Carroll at Discover have brought up some interesting points about this which are definitely worth a read, but for now, the question remains: Was Steve Jobs conventionally smart?

I think what people mean when they mention conventional smarts is basically general intelligence or an IQ score. All an IQ score represents is a rough rank order of where a person falls in a general intelligence sense among the population. As I wrote in my last post, "Steve Jobs Leveraged His Intelligence to More Effectively Create": "Steve Jobs likely had an IQ roughly 160 or above. In Walter Isaacson's biography, near the end of 4th grade, Jobs was tested. Jobs said: 'I scored at the high school sophomore level.' This means he was a 4th grader performing at the 10th grade level. The average 4th grader is 9 or 10 years old and the average 10th grader is 15 or 16 years old. Using the standard mental age/chronological age x 100 = IQ formula, we can create rough boundaries. Lower bound: 15/10 x 100 = 150 IQ. Upper bound: 16/9 x 100 = 178 IQ. Average of the bounds is 164 IQ. Of course, if Jobs was a young 4th grader then his IQ would be even higher. Steve Jobs clearly had exceptional intelligence, regardless of what his exact IQ score was. This makes sense, considering that Bill Gates, the other wunderkind, said 'Software is an IQ business.'" In 2010, the world population was roughly 6,840,507,000. An IQ of 160 places Steve Jobs in the 99.99th percentile or above as a rough lower bound. Let's do some simple math: .9999 x 6,840,507,000 = 6,839,822,949.3. This means that Steve Jobs was conventionally smarter than about 6,839,822,949 people on earth.

Steve Jobs was not "the 99 percent" intellectually or financially.

So was Steve Jobs smart? In the famous words of Napoleon Dynamite, "Heck Yes!"

© 2011 by Jonathan Wai.

Note: A perceptive reader pointed out that ratio IQ scores (what I calculated above) are not the same thing as deviation IQ scores. Hence, according to this table, a ratio IQ of 160 should actually translate into a deviation IQ of about 150. An IQ of 150 is at about the 99.9th percentile rather than the 99.99th percentile. .999 x 6,840,507,000 = 6,833,666,493. So perhaps Steve Jobs was only conventionally smarter than 6,833,666,493 people on earth.

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How rare is an IQ of 140?

about one in every 250 people The first genius IQ score was around 140. That's about one in every 250 people. But one leading researcher in the 1940s suggested that a genius should have an IQ over 180. That's about one in every 2 million people.

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The term genius refers to someone with extraordinary intellectual or creative power. Psychologists in the early 1900s were the first to measure and define genius in terms of a person's intelligence quotient (IQ).‌ The first genius IQ score was around 140. That’s about one in every 250 people. But one leading researcher in the 1940s suggested that a genius should have an IQ over 180. That’s about one in every 2 million people. There is no one definition of genius. But many doctors study highly intelligent, or gifted, children to understand genius better. They define genius as a wealth of originality, creativity, and the ability to imagine or think in new ways and areas. Could your child have the behaviors and skills of above-average intelligence or genius? Here are some of the traits of extremely high intelligence to watch for.

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