The questionable measure of intelligence has now been uncoupled from any test and functions as a general-purpose human ranking system that implies invincibility, prosperity and virility.
We have long been obsessed with IQ – but what does it actually mean? The New York Times
For months, an internet-wide guessing game has swirled around the question of where Elon Musk’s intelligence falls on the bell curve.
US President Donald Trump has called Musk a “seriously high IQ individual.” Musk’s onetime biographer Seth Abramson wrote on the social platform X that he would “peg his IQ as between 100 and 110,” and claimed that there was “zero evidence in his biography for anything higher”.
