Who has the highest IQ?
it is Marilyn Savant who has an IQ score of 228, the highest ever recorded for an adult. Savant’s parents decided to withhold the information from the public in order to avoid commercial exploitation and to assure a normal childhood. Bored with college life at Washington University, she left after two years to launch a career in stocks, real estate, and investments. Her real interest had always been writing but realized that she first needed a financial base to support herself. Within five years, her personal investments afforded her the financial independence to become a full-time writer. Savant wrote novels, short stories, and magazine/newspaper pieces, mostly political satire, under a pseudonym. Savant’s attempt at anonymity ended in 1985 when the Guinness Book of World Records obtained her IQ test scores from the Mega Society, a group whose membership is restricted to those with only the highest IQ scores. The members’ IQ has to be higher than 99.999%. Savant’s IQ score was more th
