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Comment author: Caledonian2 20 December 2007 12:13:34AM -2 points [-]

Traditional IQ tests sensibly and reliably measure a range of around 60-140. Richard Feynman's measured IQ was 137, but you have to translate that as "outside the range of the IQ test"

No. It is far more likely that the qualities that made Feynman a genius were not those that were measured by IQ tests.

It's not a matter of his intellect being outside of a range. Intellect has a dimensionality far greater than IQ tests measure, period.