San Francisco, Stephen Hawking is perhaps the most brilliant physicist and mathematician of our times. He famously said that he has no idea about what was his IQ, when asked by a reporter.
“But people who brag about it are losers”. Hawkins said
Some people crow about their above-average IQ. The median IQ is 100. President Trump is famous for bragging about his IQ of 156. but that is offending to others and unethical of him for bragging.
Declaring oneself of IQ score implies that the other person is a moron, an idiot, a fool. Joachim Krueger is a professor of Psychology at Brown University. Kruger says that declaration of IQ is like saying that I am a better person than you are.
This is aggressive and insulting to a person whom it is told. .Kruger says that “your good qualities will reveal themselves without declaration in long run”.
IQ test is reliable source to measure a person’s intelligence in general. The test is used in all spheres of life but declaring one’s own IQ measurement score indicates a person’s lack of confidence about himself. It alienate other people. No leadership of any worth will ever declare his IQ scores.
IQ measurement cannot be called hundred percent accurate. But it remains the best judge for capacity to critical thinking with somewhat scientific and measurable methods.
Declaring your IQ without discretion make people say you an incompetent immoral and immodest person.
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