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Sub-200? Speak for yourself.

It's probably safe to say he'd get bullied, but what do I know :).

Unless his looks, fitness, and social skills are also lvl 1000. Why not? Doesn't seem far fetched for a designer baby. In fact, giving him the perfect jawline is probably way easier than giving him 1000 IQ.

We could give him 200 IQ and five heads.

Guys, the IQ scale becomes statistically meaningless and undefined past 160. Stop.

meaningless... or merely incomprehensible to minds too simple to grasp its true nature?

This comment.

Edit: (to be read with melodramatic emphasis)

If only we could ask Dr. Morbius...

Well tell that to Stephen who said, "it would be possible to achieve, very roughly, about 100 standard deviations of improvement, corresponding to an IQ of over 1,000."