Prudentia High IQ Society

The late Michael Wells Ferguson was the author of the article "The Inappropriately Excluded", which I consider a classic and a must-read. Many highly intelligent people dream of reaching high positions in society, such as becoming university professors or winning the Nobel Prize. Ferguson shows that professors, doctors, judges, etc. are on average not that smart and that people with far above average intelligence usually do not get into these positions. The reason is not that these people have shortcomings but that highly intelligent people are systematically discriminated against. <<In the popular culture, IQ has become a point of contention. Many people credulously accept that the eminent have very high IQs and that people of ordinary accomplishment have ordinary IQs. For example, it was widely reported that Garry Kasparov has an IQ of 190. In truth, his IQ is verified to be 135.>> <<Over an extensive range of studies and with remarkable consisten...

How the Internet was celebrated in the 1990s: access to knowledge suddenly became much easier. Everyone could educate themselves. In addition, freedom of expression reached a new level: anyone could create a website and write whatever they wanted on it, accessible to everyone. But from the very beginning, dark forces were at work in the background, viewing the Internet primarily as a means of controlling the population. Intelligence agencies built up extensive databases on every single inhabitant of the world, based on what they revealed about themselves on the Internet. As realistic-minded people have long recognised, running a website or blog now poses a risk: because everything you reveal about yourself can be used against you. But that's not all: posts on social media or other channels can also be monitored and evaluated. As people spend more and more time on the internet and many administrative procedures are already carried out online, the dark forces have more and more oppor...

According to ChatGPT, an IQ of 140 is well above average (approximately 2 - 3 standard deviations above the mean) and corresponds to roughly the top 0.5% of the population. This does not automatically mean that a person is ‘capable of anything’, but rather that they have a very high level of general problem-solving, abstraction and learning abilities. However, whether someone is suitable for a profession also depends heavily on personality traits, interests, motivation, social skills and resilience. Professions that are typically performed particularly well by people with very high IQs are those that: involve highly complex analytical or creative tasks, require a high degree of abstraction, enable independent thinking and pioneering work. Typical fields: Science & research Theoretical physics, mathematics, AI research Basic research in natural sciences or humanities Philosophical or logical basic research Technology & development Complex software development, algorithm design C...