Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his ā€œfanboysā€ who have attempted to use the billionaireā€™s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

  • LorindĆ³l@sopuli.xyz
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    11 hours ago

    We had to take a mandatory IQ test at the beginning of military service, my score was in the highest percentile and because of this I ended up in officer training. It wasnā€™t the Mensa type test, they measured our language, math and pattern recognition skills with a vast battery of questions with a time limit.

    Many friends of mine got average IQ scores in the army test but they are the ones who are really smart and extremely succesful.

    In university I got a chance to take the Mensa type test and got ~140 points. I just laughed it off since at the same time I was struggling to pass my courses, while my friends who got average scores passed them with ease.

    I do not consider myself really ā€œsmartā€ in any way, I just have a very good memory and Iā€™m pretty adept at solving problems. Otherwise Iā€™m just about as average a guy can be.

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      57 minutes ago

      Uh-huh and everyone stood up to clap buddy?

      You know, its a thing to jerk off to yer fantasies but your fantasy is a high IQ score? Really? Was Ariana Grande not in danger in your dreams or something?

      • LorindĆ³l@sopuli.xyz
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        22 minutes ago

        No.

        The whole point - which you seem to have missed - was that getting a ā€œgoodā€ score in some test can mean very little or nothing in real life.

        It just means that youā€™re good at that sort of mental exercise.