What do you think GM Hikaru IQ is?

10000000

That's ok. You made multiple posts just now on the matter. That's got to count for something.

TICCPROW 

Ok, but apparently not all of them will score higher than 102... and one of those "low" scorers is Naka

Bruh I took an online iq test and got 140 something, ain’t no way my iq is higher then Hikaru’s. Online ones seem and probably are bogus.

BTW I'm pleased I guessed about 100, and then it turns out he scored about 100... lol.

But seriously, you can tell by the way he talks... and I don't mean words, I mean the ideas.

... and I don't even think he would be insulted for me to say this... I certainly don't mean it as an insult, and I don't think I'm a genius... that's just the way it is... most people are close to average and there's obviously nothing wrong with that... average general intelligence is even enough to be a GM.

     There is NO proof that IQ and chess abilities are at all related. Everyone here who says "his IQ must be higher than that" or "you have to have a high IQ to become a GM" is simply basing their opinion on an unproven assumption. 

     Just look at the real world all around you. There are certainly many successful people in many fields of endeavor who display no signs of high IQ. You would think someone would need a high IQ to reach the upper levels of government--assessing voters' desires, coming up with winning policies, persuading other politicians to follow their lead--but I'll warrant that everyone here can point out people at the highest levels of their country's ruling class that are clearly well shy of genius IQ.

Online tests are not actually IQ tests, but you can grade a person's ability to solve problems with a test, it's pretty easy. You give lots of people the same test, and you do statistics to find out which questions correlate best with the overall score and which correlate worst. You remove the bad ones and keep the good ones, add some more questions, and give it again with a new group.

Over and over you refine it, until you only have questions that correlate highly with a person's general ability to solve problems... then you give that test to tons more people to standardize the score.

An IQ test isn't just, hey, you scored 20 out of 30 so that's 66%, that's not how it works at all. It's more like you scored 20 out of 30, which is as good as or better than 50% of the people who took it, so your IQ is 100.

Yeah, and most people can do most things.

I'm not saying everyone can be a medical doctor, lawyer, engineer, titled chess player... but most people can... particularly if they start young and have the passion and structure. Ok if your IQ is 90 it will probably be harder for you than if it's 160, and you probably wont be the best but potentially you can be pretty good.

I’d be more interested in what our global IQ is now compared to 50 years ago. Is there a trend or is it constant? My apology for seemingly veering off from the OP.

AFAIK, thanks to diet and healthcare things, global human IQ has gone up a few points in 50 years or something.

     The average score will always be 100. That's the way the grading system is set up.

True, when comparing 20 year olds to 20 years olds, and 90s to 90s. How do we compare the 90 year old to the 20 year olds? 

It helps if you're at least not stupid (talking about chess). We can agree on that, maybe?  That there are no straight-up stewpid GM's?

     IQ tests are graded on a curve. Whatever the average number of correct answers on a particular test is (tests are regularly revised) will equal a score of 100. How far above/below that a person scores will give a result regardless of age.

Unless stewpid is as stewpid does.

We're all stewpid sometimes. Some more than others.

Very high

How can this test be valid, hes not even trying. If he did try and apply his mind I think he will crush the test.

∞ iq