Abdesselam Jelloul is the man with highest IQ score in the world. He scored 198 in IQ test held in 2012. He holds the record to have highest score in Advance IQ test. The test included 13 different dimensions of intelligence including analytical, linguistics, spiritual, philosophical and 9 others.
Abdesselam Jelloul sounds like he could be a black man…

Sounds middle eastern to me…not to be racist :slight_smile:

It’s an Arabic name. It could belong to a ‘black’ guy, say from Eritrea or Somalia.

whats more likely, hes from morocco? or something liek that

There do seem to be a bunch of Jellouls around Morocco.

what are the chances of him being black

spiritual intelligence?

IQ can’t be measured anywhere near as high as 198, so someone’s fallen for a scam. Which doesn’t demonstrate particularly high intelligence, regardless of melanin content.

Where does this claim about someone’s I.Q. come from? Here are three websites I’ve found which make this claim:

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-930711

And these are the most coherent of the websites I’ve found which mention this, and one of them says explicitly that the score isn’t reliable. Who is this guy and where does he live? Who gave him the I.Q. test? Why should we think the people who tested him know what they’re doing?

A good rule of thumb is that any claim of an I.Q. over 160 is probably nonsense. Ordinary I.Q. tests can’t measure any higher than that. There are some odd tests that claim to be able to measure higher I.Q.'s, but their usefulness is disputed.

Oh, thanatic, it’s not that anyone here cares that a man who isn’t melanin deprived may be smart, it is that none of us are impressed by outrageously high IQ test scores.

Bizarre OP. And what is “spiritual intelligence”?

I think Dr. Strange has that.

It’s probably obvious, but the OP’s first paragraph is directly lifted from at least 2 Web sites.

I don’t mean to give racists any arguments, but here’s another problem: just because the smartest (most intelligent, whatever) man in the world is black doesn’t mean anything for black people in general. If you were to claim (and you would be very, very wrong) that black people are less intelligent than white people, a single outlier one way or another does not disprove that argument.

I thought the smartest man in the world looked like this.

There is one person named Abdesselam Jelloul in the United States, and he lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Note, people, this is the *White *Pages!

Cite, please.

Actually it sounds more Southeast Asian.

It must be 'nam, cause Jelloul don’t shake like that.

Or someone made up an IQ test that may not mean anything. They’re called Advance IQ and my assumption is that they’re full of shit.

Well, I for one think that the whole “racism” thing has finally been defeated, once and for all. I look forward to our brave new future, free of prejudice and full of harmony for all mankind.

Except the fucking Dutch.

so do you guys call BS on this test…