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I had something similar happen, while coming downhill a car popped out of no-where and instead of just breaking, i also turned sharply and flew over the handle bars, luckily on the good side! The way we react in a split second of panic is not the way expect we will usually react.

One question though, her IQ was 173? Einstein's was between 160-180.

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> One question though, her IQ was 173? Einstein's was between 160-180.

It's not about how big it is. It's about how you use it.

What's your point?

This

Or as TBBT mentions, Sheldon has an IQ of ~180 but he didn't know you could call soup delivery (or something like that)

Or to make a simpler analogy: Being 6ft tall helps if you play volleyball (may be even a requirement), makes no difference if you play soccer.

Einstein appears never to have taken an IQ test. See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6415373

(posted earlier in this thread) for more about the late Amazon executive's IQ score.

How do people actually get to know their IQ? Are they so full of themselves that they go and get tested so they can know just how superior they are? Or is it something standard in some part of the world?

I think the point was to speak well of the dead: their acheivements, humanity and even their attributes. She was quite beautiful as well.

I got tested as part of an entrance exam to my elementary school.

You can usually estimate based on other standardized tests for people who haven't taken (or publicly disclosed) an IQ test. It's possible that the 173 figure is based on her CPA exam results or SAT scores.

School, typically. Had to do them at 9, 12, 17. I got dumber with each successive one.

IQ is just another meaningless metric. I'm supposedly 183, but I'm still a moronic cracked-out buffoon who struggles to remember what he ate for lunch.

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