Truman Capote on Taking Intelligence Tests in His Youth | The Dick Cavett Show

[@TheDickCavettShow]

Want to see more of Truman Capote on the Dick Cavett Show? Here he questions French actress Jeanne Moreau! kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3aTXmmbjbSimas

[@steveb1972]

I love how Dick gives his guests so much space to open up and talk. A lot of interviewers like the sound of their own voice too much.

[@Jeremyramone]

Very true. People consider h stern a great interviewer but he constantly interrupts his guest which derails their train of thought.

[@CHRISTINEAZ]

Definitely

[@TheSnowmanBKK]

your thinking of Michael Parkinson, Piers Morgan (like the sound of their own voice)

[@Nikki11369]

And if anyone should like the sound of their own voice it ought to be Dick Cavett.

[@seamusblack5876]

He was also really down to earth he would call up to his guests and socialise with them

[@douglasdearden4879]

Wow. A show with an open conversation between Truman Capote, Jeanne Moreau, and Lee Marvin. Incredible.

[@HeWhoFlewFromInwood]

Best talk show ever

[@bliss66]

I grew up watching this. I always say, "Back in the '70s, they'd have real conversations and have people like Truman Capote on..."

[@beatricewoods8377]

Awesome I miss those talk shows loved Truman Capote

[@noeldown1952]

God damn PSH did an amazing job channeling Capote's mannerisms and the manner of speech. Wow.

[@djamesv]

I thought I was watching Phillip during this!

[@rebelradio71]

Was thinking the same. He nailed it.

[@MelanieNichols-ej5py]

Right?! I am watching Capote right now and he is incredible !

[@Oyabungaijin]

You should see Tom Hollander in “Feud: Capote VS the Swans”. Even better than Hoffman (who was excellent) in my opinion.

[@MyLateralThawts]

I am always struck by the fact that Truman Capote was a childhood friend of Harper Lee and that the character of Dill Harris, in To Kill a Mockingbird, was based on him.

[@treetopjones737]

He said she was so nervous about living up to it that she decided not to write another novel.

[@blipblip88]

I'd welcome another Dick Cavett personae, but I doubt if one exists, or if it could even generate interest to air. One of 20th century's greatest interviewers!

[@VideoAmericanStyle]

Some of the best podcast hosts out there take a Cavett approach and it’s so refreshing. TV? Forget it.

[@johngrunwell6101]

I was just thinking that he was one of the worst!

[@wolfchrt]

@@VideoAmericanStyle which ones? They arent really A class. But i think lots of podcasts seem similar because his show was always quiet and laid back

[@RagedContinuum]

I prefer Tom Snyder

[@humantacos9800]

Podcasts have taken over tv. A lot of good podcasts

[@MrWhiskie]

An era of true discourse that needs to be revived

[@nhmooytis7058]

Forget it people are too dumb now.

[@Keithustus]

Well Charlie Rose was on TV until not long ago. But he was not a good person when off camera so we can't have nice things.

[@KamradO]

I can't imagine what Capote had to endure in Alabama because of the way he was. He kinda repackaged it as a funny story but there's hurt and resentment hidden behind the façade.

[@cappystrano1]

What do you mean, the way he was?

[@KamradO]

@@cappystrano1 soft-spoken, genteel, feminine , "four-eyed", educated beyond belief. Not masculine in a traditional sense.

[@cappystrano1]

@@KamradO interesting take on it. Cheers

[@errorsofmodernism9715]

@@KamradO you're kidding! LOL

[@errorsofmodernism9715]

do you mean his penchant for smoking sauseges was not appreciated?

[@LPJack02]

RIP Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 - August 29, 1987), aged 63 RIP Truman Capote (September 30, 1924 - August 25, 1984), aged 59 RIP Jeanne Moreau (January 23, 1928 - July 31, 2017), aged 89 You will be remembered as legends.

[@davidanthonystone5165]

Je l’adore

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

@@davidanthonystone5165 How did Lee Marvin die so young?

[@AntonioBarsanio]

@@jeffryphillipsburns He was a heavy smoker and drinker. Too sad, he was a legendary actor.

[@jeshkam]

​@@jeffryphillipsburnsI was gonna ask the same question lol.

[@timirish2563]

@@jeffryphillipsburns Marvin straightened out his life in his final years. With professional help (one of his best friends from his Marine Corps years had become a Jungian Psychotherapist) he made peace with having survived the war (with a massive wound to his posterior) while every other Marine in his company perished in battle. For Lee Marvin, his war was finally over. He reconnected with his high school sweetheart (herself a veteran of a bad marriage); they married and moved to Arizona, where Marvin lived his final happy years. He rests (as he should) among his fellows in a simple grave at Arlington National Cemetery. (If you really want to know what he was like in life, catch his excellent later performance in Samuel Fuller's film The Big Red One--that was all Marvin.)

[@Prellium]

I could listen to Truman Capote talk all day, such an interesting guy.

[@Mr_LMT_93]

Do you not like the sound of his voice though?

[@NotUrBiz]

What did he say here, that was interesting?

[@michaelcelani8325]

@@NotUrBiz ... Answer ::: Everything !! He was an INCREDIBLE Writer.."Other Voices Other Rooms" is an astounding writing achievement. Top 5 on my list, right along with Joseph Conrad.. Yes that good !

[@Jman417]

Philip Seymour Hoffman was his twin. Wonderful proformance

[@maddymiller1002]

Yeah, I bet you could..

[@davidb6576]

Delighted that you're releasing these bits of footage. Listening to actual personalities rather than "fabrications" converse is a delight. And I'll have to read up on Capote, I knew he was intelligent, but didn't realize he was at that level.

[@prezidenttrump5171]

You're not as smart as you think you are.

[@davidb6576]

@@prezidenttrump5171 You're correct.

[@daleandrews3552]

When he said his was in the 180's I thought WOW! The I.Q. tests they've developed up to that point had a ceiling of 200. I guess even the test makers figured that would test high enough. Absolutely incredible. I read somewhere when interviewing the 2 killers for the book "In Cold Blood", he didn't use a tape recorder b/c he knew he had around 80-85% recall of the conversations, so "Why bother?"

[@yesterdayitrained]

I’m not surprised. I think his intelligence helped him find his way and kept him alive. He lived at a time when existing must have been extremely difficult.

[@treetopjones737]

Read his autobiography.

[@jochenstossberg5427]

Dick Cavett was great, you feel he's desperate to interrupt but too scared to. He was such a class act, and so funny. Lee Marvin clearly 'got' Truman. Very entertaining.

[@anthonymorales842]

what a rare treat.. Truman Capote surprised me with a real common place intelligence with incredible depth to his being. Same with Lee Marvin

[@ellendearden6023]

He's making this up. IQ screening tests don't work that way and nobody was doing that kind of research. I believe he moved to NY with his family.

[@blipblip88]

Capote's lisp was always engaging because his intellect and charm was so naturally crafted.

[@charcolew]

How do you craft something naturally?

[@blipblip88]

@@charcolew by digging deep into the soul, accepting the flaws, weaknesses, recognizing the strengths and gifts and using these to hone one's success.

[@ZeranZeran]

No, it's just annoying. Sounds like that cartoon bulldog. He chose to speak like that. because.. he was a very femenine man.. and he.. wikes de attention

[@20alphabet]

Not really.

[@JD-nh7vb]

Dick Cavett is a legend!

[@RogerPeet]

I used to watch this show. That was back before children and young adults were addicted to electronics. Many people back then read books and talked to one another. Talk shows were the rage. Dick Cavett had just 1 guest at various times. It was cool to listen to Katharine Hepburn for an hour.

[@williamjc7195]

Mr. Capote has a very interesting way of speaking. Quite engaging.

[@brainsareus]

Truman could have been, a quirky; yet hysterically funny standup comic.

[@jochenstossberg5427]

He could have been. The tone of some of his reminisces are not too far way from shaggy dog stories.

[@alexisleal8799]

Extraordinarily interesting, and of historical importance in the literary field .........

[@meerkat7406]

Honestly wonder whether Captote's story about his IQ tests are true. He's a literary genius for sure.

[@MP-zf7kg]

Honest story: I took IQ tests in college and scored extremely well. Made nearly no difference in my life as it never translated into money-making activities, art, writing, or so on. There are a people a helluva lot smarter than me, and they succeed. There are people who aren't very smart at all, but have good personal appeal and they succeed. There are quite a few "me" out there, more than a few just end up homeless. Intelligence not applied well yields nothing.

[@cricketslayer1]

Yes no matter how smart you are if you never apply yourself and put out effort you will not be successful.

[@zovalentine7305]

Success is the amount of joy you feel 🌟 💃 🌟 ⚘ 🌟 ❣ 🌟

[@ronaldsmith6161]

@@zovalentine7305 I think 'A Course in Miracles' might appeal to you.

[@Dentropolis]

That was my brother. Always the smartest person in the room. Valedictorian effortlessly. Reading was his first of only a few loves. He sacrificed everything to read everything. Nice guy. Not materialistic. Honest. Not emotional. Never amounted to anything.

[@ronaldsmith6161]

@@Dentropolis Sounds like he actually amounted to being a decent human.

[@johngregory3564]

Too bad we never hear from artists, writers, or other intellectuals on talk shows anymore.

[@kamuelalee]

Too controversial

[@playdiscgolf1546]

There is, they’re just not mainstream like it was, because fewer people give a crap about higher thinking anymore

[@kingy002]

Hundreds of them on Podcasts, which are talk shows. You just need to seek them out.

[@Cometboy95476]

Love the way Capote snuck in the IQ thing to brag about how intelligent he is.

[@rickrick5041]

Why not?

[@nataliedelagrandiere4022]

He loved to brag but in a nice way.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

There is no doubt in my mind he was lying, much the way Trump lied about his own IQ being genius level....

[@rickrick5041]

@@maskedmarvyl4774 I don't know that he was lying. There have always been people with very high IQ's and he did have great ability

[@michaelcelani8325]

All you people here are IGNORANT BEYOND BELIEF !!! He was TOP Level Writer, Internationally famous. But he wrote stuff that YOU HICKS could not understand. Way, Way over your heads !

[@beetalius]

the stories people tell about themselves often tell more about the person than the story.

[@ettawing5955]

Child Guidance @ BCH

[@keithss67]

Love when Lee Marvin cracks up

[@nataliedelagrandiere4022]

Its so funny to see the 3 together because they had nothing in common.

[@lorihugo4814]

The show was set up this way! It made for interesting conversation. 😊

[@mr.grumpygrumpy2035]

Having a high IQ is much more a curse than a blessing.

[@mirozen_]

Not really, though I suppose for some it can lead to feeling a bit "set apart" from the majority of people. For the most part it simply increases your "options". You tend to understand things more quickly than most others. You have less of the "discomfort" that many people seem to feel when they are put in a situation where they are expected to learn new things.

[@mdogzino]

That's true only if you don't apply your "gift" to anything useful or productive

[@caseye6677]

Is it?

[@sgt.thundercok4704]

So I've heard... from afar.

[@jamesanthony5681]

How so? I would think it'd give you more options in life.

[@TotallyPeacefulchaos]

Truman was so smart that he was bored with school, then after a while had to numb himself for anxiety purposes...self medication, then all the prescribed medicines from doctors, he was an addict. I feel like there are many people out in the world like this...but they have never been given an IQ test.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

Truman Capote here looks and sounds like Anthony Hopkins being voiced by Marlon Brando

[@shuckslbj]

I was just thinking of Brando, especially Kevin Spacey's impression of him on Inside the Actors' Studio.

[@horrorhabit8421]

I once saw a clip of Tennessee Williams terribly, terribly drunk. He could give Truman a run for his money in the bar. Tennessee was slurring and his tongue was no longer cooperating with him. The thing is, I can't find that clip anywhere now and I think I might have dreamed it.

[@ptaylor4923]

I'd love to see those tests

[@nhmooytis7058]

Truman was the model for Dill in To Kill A Mockingbird.

[@dwightstjohn6927]

apparently they knew each other as kids, a block away. both also knew they were going to be writers, even as kids. !!

[@nhmooytis7058]

@@dwightstjohn6927 yes that’s why she used him as Dill.

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

TRUMAN CAPOTE! THE BEST! 🐯🐯🐯🔱🔱🔱

[@mimilini1]

Truly!

[@mariusjns]

that's what idiots say

[@michaelcelani8325]

@@mariusjns Stupid Ignorant Hicks Like You Need Not Apply !! Stick with People Magazine with Pictures.. Lol.

[@watthaile2053]

Hardly

[@cubnation]

I wonder how Jeanne Moreau and Lee Marvin felt sitting there with Truman Capote who said on Johnny Carson that all actors were dumb? 😄

[@watthaile2053]

No doubt they considered the source and dismissed it as the trite it was.

[@2Majesties]

Truman Capote and Lee Marvin on the same show. One would think stark opposites, but an interesting mix indeed.

[@Claytone-Records]

2Majesties, Capote really had old Lee chuckling over the tetanus/lockjaw joke.

[@brainscott8198]

Lee Marvin had a rough exterior but a soft heart.

[@765kvline]

Divergent personalities make the best conversational leaders.

[@uuunknown89]

The deep laugh after the mousy voice 😅

[@zovalentine7305]

Intelligence has many categories

[@c.c.6930]

Moreau smoked like a chimney and lived to be 89! Some good genes!

[@ronmackinnon9374]

Capote was right, 'lockjaw' is another word for tetanus. Which isn't what Dick was going for, he probably meant 'slackjawed.'

[@dorrielove]

I wish I were alive to meet Truman Capote 😊

[@Susieq26754]

I like how Truman said, "You probably don't remember the Depression, because you lived in France." That was a dig. 😂

[@Britalic]

She was awesome in Ever After

[@marcotee709]

Jeanne Moreau. One of the greatest actresses of all time.

[@baseboy1241]

Never heard of her.

[@obiwang5281]

derek poole I wish I could experience Jeanne Moreau for the first time again

[@baseboy1241]

@@obiwang5281 A good actress, weird Iv never heard of her.

[@augmentedkeys5971]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascenseur_pour_l'%C3%A9chafaud_(soundtrack)

[@Claytone-Records]

derek poole, Ever watch French films? From the 1960’s?

[@seamusblack5876]

I completely adore Truman Capote what an amazing human 1000s times more intelligent than you or me And the fact that a sensitive soul like lee Marvin was nervous in his presence is all you need to know

[@syourke3]

To think that this was TV when I was a youngster. Where did it go?

[@kristoferkristensen9021]

Are there even shows like this anymore where guests can actually talk at length about things?

[@skeptigal2785]

No, nor guests who can actually talk.

[@acchaladka]

My god, what a sofa, what a group, what a show! Only Graham Norton comes close on BBC but he's all comedy.

[@jamesharding17]

A stupendous writer and a great human being too. Sui generis in every sense of those words.

[@afvet5075]

Truman Capote was super cool. Very interesting man.

[@XX-gy7ue]

if he's fibbing or not , HIS WORK PROVES HIM A STUNNING GENIUS !

[@Claytone-Records]

X X, All two of them, yes.

[@janets9179]

Wonder if that story is true

[@Claytone-Records]

janets9179, He was known to really stretch the truth. For instance he once claimed that it was he who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. I thought Harper Lee wrote that. : ).

[@XX-gy7ue]

@@Claytone-Records , she did , but maybe he was referring to the similar style that they shared , as in the way it was told , sounds very much like one of his stories - since they were childhood friends , and he is actually one of the characters in ' to kill a mockingbird ' , he may want to take credit for his contribution , as she to his work ?

[@XX-gy7ue]

@@Claytone-Records , look again !

[@christopherone1]

Dick Cavett....the best!

[@marcweeks9178]

Wow, he only interrupted once (by the slightly insulting "cheat" comment) during his two and half minute story. Nowadays, with a dozen questions and a commercial break, we might have heard about 30 seconds' worth of that story.

[@samuelmonsalve9913]

This makes me miss Philip Seymour hoffman.

[@malvavisco10]

I love saying again like “a-gain”

[@Gannooch]

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were a part of the main cast?

[@logike77]

Shamefully, I didn't know about Capote until Hoffman played his character. There are some interesting cats out there worthy of attention.

[@foreveryoungbiking]

Ah poor fellow [trueman capote]

[@jamesprior2496]

Y'all should hear Rich Little's impression of this queen. Absolutely hilarious!

[@5thdimension625]

It was brilliant. I remember it!

[@arthurmorgan6594]

Will I ever get to know the theme played at the end? Please @TheDickCavettShow

[@turbotek-wj8vc]

Please will someone tell us? Is it Gerald Wilson?

[@arthurmorgan6594]

@@turbotek-wj8vc Let's hope so!

[@turbotek-wj8vc]

@@cappystrano1 Thank you, I'll look for this, I need to hear the whole thing!

[@arthurmorgan6594]

@@cappystrano1 I can't seem to find it...

[@turbotek-wj8vc]

@@arthurmorgan6594 me neither. But not giving up yet.

[@richardlionheart3965]

why do so many stars in these interviews sound soooooo doped up? like they're all on tranquilizers

[@thesmiler1579]

gee, i wonder why

[@maxcady9071]

Have a drink for every time someone in the audience coughs - 2021 will get better.

[@maciekjoker9095]

Capote, good writer but good alcoholic also.

[@axiomist4488]

185 ??? That makes him a genius ! What an interesting man, regardless .

[@davshaw5]

Back when smoking was breezy entertainment.....

[@sammavacaist]

Is it me, or did people used to be more interesting? Is it just Dick Cavett selecting these guests?

[@terr777]

They called TV the boob tube back then. When I think of interviews like this one and those of Vidal, Buckley and Mailer, etc. what would we call it now that there's nothing to even compare?

[@maureenoneill2847]

Maureen just writing for trick or treat remembering breakfast at Tiffany's movie where Mr O'Shaughnessy was detained by sing sing..it appears it was him was the only one by Broadway show directors to source book wrong acclaimed family's house 🏡

[@immabsippinchai611]

I find with so many people of a higher intelligence, if you would, always say they were bored in school. A 185 at age 6, insane. My oldest daughter scored 156 which is super good almost genius. What an impressive man. Anyway, back to my point. Lol. Obviously, I'm no Truman Capote. 🤣 But the boredom steams from them already knowing the subject matter that is being taught and also that the maturity of these "geniuses" is surprised most students and maybe even some teachers. My score was not so impressive but I also haven't tested in almost 2 decades. At that point though, it was a 132. It may have dropped with age. 🤣 I'm hoping that isn't the case because I'd like to think I know a little more now than I did then. Ty for sharing.

[@oregondani]

Your IQ is well above average (100). Don't sell yourself short. You're no dummy!

[@eileencoburn8631]

boasting and taking time from the two other famous guests.

[@terri6854]

I wonder how true that tale was. Any fact checkers in those days?

[@carlossummers4992]

To imagine he died of ignorance is incomprehensible.

[@AntonioBarsanio]

Lee Marvin, Truman capote, Jeanne Moreau and Dick Cavett in one room! Wow just Wow! This is the kind of art we had in the past, what happened, what went wrong?

[@josephpadula2283]

Antonio But that show didn’t have a DNA test reveal to see if he was the father !

[@SHEEPFETTISH]

what music was that playing at the end anyone?

[@sdjgamers7808]

The show's theme song played by the house band?

[@ifandwhen-kl2cr]

“Intelligence” is a military concept.

[@spanky9067]

6:40 No, the answer is no, being probed was his lifelong dream up till that point! HAHAHAHA

[@maciekjoker9095]

I see for the first time someone who smoke cigarettes in the studio.

[@SirPeter6464]

Unique character. Doubt we will see another. 🤔

[@caliden3785]

I never heard of this French actress. I must look her up

[@Claytone-Records]

Cali Den, See Jules and Jim by Truffaut, Chimes at Midnight and The Trial by Welles or the Fire Within by Malle. But probably most known for Jules et Jim. Enjoy.

[@seamusblack5876]

1:13.always think this is a load of crap they work all their lives to get on the silver screen climbing over all their competitors at every opportunity and THEN they don't like watching themselves on the screen BULLCRAP

[@jamesanthony5681]

There are a few actors who don't like watching themselves, in some instances because they can't go back and correct mistakes they've made.

[@bluetoad2001]

Monte Walsh. wow Truman shouldv’e written more screen plays.

[@barbaram8619]

So weird how commonplace cigarette smoking was.

[@david-pb4bi]

If I had a 100£ for every time someone said they scored high on an IQ test, could afford to pay the national debt on the interest.

[@moisturisedgnome1181]

MKUltra right here folks

[@johndoe-fq7ez]

These people talking about how intelligent and great they are is insufferable

[@jaysilverheals4445]

nobody ends capote starts at 2-30

[@humantacos9800]

Oh, Dill.

[@jadezee6316]

i believe truman capote had an iq of 185......he certainly is the most perceptive person i am aware of......

[@horrorhabit8421]

I love TC, I respect his talent, but I don't believe a word of this.

[@katfishkobain8809]

Put a mensa member in the bush and an aboriginal bushman in NYC and see who survives. Not to say there may not be aboriginal Mensa members (whom would survive anywhere!lol

[@johnelstad]

In the book, "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond he makes a compelling argument that Aboriginal bushmen have higher average intelligence than Europeans.

[@katfishkobain8809]

@@johnelstad hey thanks, I’ll check it out!They taught me bush skills in the army. I have no doubt about their intelligence and would never want to oppose them in the field. I got an Australian friend that unfortunately doesn’t feel that way! Honestly he’s not that bright

[@katfishkobain8809]

@@johnelstad they had a program that gave Shamans in the Amazon laptops,when a tribal member collapsed in the middle of village, and one ran into the forest , grabbed some plants,and covered his chest with mud and the plants he gathered. It was foxglove, the derivative of digitalis.It’s documented in a pharmaceutical digest somewhere, They can’t explain that one!

[@kevinbergin9971]

I don't know if it's the smoking, but Jeanne Moreau seems way past her then 42 years.

[@Birdtendo]

But when I saw the movie, it looked like Audrey Hepurn not only had Breakfast at Tiffany's, she hadn't eaten anything in a year OOOO I'm such a bitch.

[@jonharrison9222]

Liked himself, didn’t he…?

[@somethingyousaid5059]

He had no choice but to endure for as long as he could an absurd identity that was forced on him.

[@anda6963]

Wow l didn't know Phillip Seymour Hoffman was alive back then.. Lol

[@redskins973]

This story is probably complete horseshit. There are some people like this in the world, but there are far more liars. And the people like this don’t become novelists. That’s not to say that novelists are unintelligent, but being a good storyteller is not assessed on intelligence tests since it’s a completely different skill. The people like this generally spend their days solving extremely challenging intellectual problems as physicists, mathematicians, economists, computer scientists etc rather than writing novels.

[@Kulerdanue]

where dr phil got his notes

[@clintcalvert9250]

Discussions with no hard agendas. A lost thing

[@johnny316b]

is it any wonder why the hollywood is the way it is. please put a fence around it.

[@brainsareus]

As opposed to what; cops, military, politicians....?? Hollywood; does not have the market cornered on degeneracy; not that, I even see it from Truman.

[@nationalallianceforprogres3136]

Long live democratic socialism and freedom

[@nhmooytis7058]

When people smoked on TeeVee!

[@dwightstjohn6927]

a tremendous number of Hollywood and European stars died early from emphazema, throat and upper palette cancer, all directly related to smoking. And no, don't ask me why the Stones are still alive. A lot drank a lot, too. Veronica Lake died before 60. Heavy drinker all her life.

[@nhmooytis7058]

@@dwightstjohn6927 lung cancer too. The tobacco companies claimed smoking was actually good for you!

[@archenema6792]

That simply isn't how Binet scores work. They are not on an absolute scale, and there is no "maximum" score, whether it's 200 or not. All Binet tests, of which "IQ" tests are a subset, produce z-scores. That means that a standard deviation of the means is run on a data set. The standard deviation of this set is then added those of other sets, and a standard deviation of the means is run on these sets as data points. This standard deviation of the means of these sets is then added to other "meta-sets", and a third standard deviation of the means is run on these. This gives you a z-score against which individual test scores can be measured. While the mean is always set at 100, there is NO maximum possible score, it just becomes diminishingly improbable to score above a certain level, which is often highly dependent on sample size. In short, he was lying.

[@seop1721]

They standardise the scores. His population of scores, based on that national sample, will produce his z-score. They do have numerical values and depending on the era of the test, those numbers are the case. Remember that such tests were designed for most people to get 50%, thus the mean is 50%, thus the mean is 100, thus the max is 200. They were always geared toward a population for educational assessment where the mean of the population of interest will get 50%, and as the Flynn effect changes scores every 10 years in the 50 years since then they have had to be restandardised. He may have been lying, but not due to the tests.

[@seop1721]

In short, 200 is the maximum because 100 IQ was set to 50% attainment and hence 100% attainment would mean 200 IQ.

[@archenema6792]

@@seop1721 If that was the methodology, then this was NOT a Binet test, and the results, whatever they may be, are not "IQ" scores. And this is all just the superficial aspects of a valid "IQ" score. It would take many pages to detail the comparative factors that would likely have invalidated these results, but the most important is that IQ tests rate problem solving and language association skills. The former strongly implies that scores are only valid when compared against people of roughly the same age, since people generally acquire greater knowledge of methods for problem solving as they acquire life experience. The latter strictly implies that scores are only valid when compared against people from the same culture who use the same dialect of the same language, as otherwise those whose daily conventionalized use of a language is closer to those of the authors of the questions will have an advantage in perceiving the "proper" association in a way unrelated to the supposed "intelligence" being tested. That's how these tests work when CORRECTLY administered and analyzed.

[@seop1721]

@@archenema6792 No one really calls them Binet tests anymore. And the previous is standard psychometrics. You might think the tests are not valid, but the methodology is standard for g.

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@@seop1721 These tests, and their methodologies, were first developed by Alfred Binet in the 19th century, and refined over the next half dozen or so decades by legitimate scientists and mathematicians who sharply and critically analyzed their defects and shortcomings. Whatever may have been done to these methodologies over the last 30 to 40 by the sort of anti-scientific buffoons who call themselves "psychologists" or "sociologists" is merely politically motivated tripe that serves nothing but to diminish the validity of the entire field and all of its processes. In the past 15 years, virtually all of Academia has been reduced to craven sycophants who will say anything they think they have to say to avoid being "canceled". No "work" they might have done could possibly be considered to have the slightest value by any rational individual who understands the historical development of scientific methods. PERIOD.