[jbroson]

The desperate grasping of straws trying to explain away Feynman's unimpressive IQ score is pretty entertaining here.

" I say again: do you really think that Feynman had a middling ability to remember patterns, deduce and track logical models, and memorize things, which are the skills tested by the IQ test?"

See, now I'm confused because for all your effusive (and IMO misplaced)praise of the IQ test you don't seem to grasp how the scores work.

A 125 on the test is in the top ~5% or so of all test takers.

In no world is that a "middling" score. It's not far from two standard deviations above the mean, but below what many would say is "genius" level and below the Mensa cutoff for whatever that's worth.

It's a really great score, nowhere even close to middling!