By Stephen Kunk►
Los Angeles (AP) - Records recently leaked from Marymount High in Bel Air reveal that Kim Kardashian, a former student of the all-girls Catholic school, has an IQ of 190. Apparently, she's got a brain as brobdingnagian as her backside.
Los Angeles (AP) - Records recently leaked from Marymount High in Bel Air reveal that Kim Kardashian, a former student of the all-girls Catholic school, has an IQ of 190. Apparently, she's got a brain as brobdingnagian as her backside.
In
her mid-teens, the soon-to-be reality TV star made a mockery of the
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale: Third Edition (WAIS-III), scoring
a whopping six standard deviations above the population mean. Put
simply, this means that only an infinitesimal fraction of people
score equal or higher than Ms. Kardashian in intelligence. An IQ of
140, for instance, is conventionally accepted as “genius” level.
Thus, with her 190 IQ, Kim Kardashian is an outlier even among
geniuses. This includes her husband Kanye West, a genius in his own
right, whose IQ is a self-reported 140.
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| Figure 1: Kim Kardashian destroys yet another curve |
“Some
people are shocked,” said Andreas Nabovsky, a professor of
neuroscience at Florida Pacific University. “This includes my
neuroscience colleagues. They say, 'oh, she's no intellectual titan.
She's dedicated her life to being famous for being famous. She stars
on a vacuous reality show in which she and her female kin fuss like
ninnies over beautification and petty personal projects.
“But
when we look closer, it is less surprising,” Nabovsky went on. “Kim
Kardashian has come from intelligent parentage, and has succeeded in
making money in multiple endeavors.”
Indeed,
Robert Kardashian, Kim's father, was a high-profile attorney. He
managed to argue for OJ Simpson's innocence, a feat that obviously took preternatural intellect and imagination. Kim herself has
made steps toward taking up her father's trade, and without even
going to law school at that. At present, she is reading the law in
preparation for writing the California bar exam. Of course, she
hardly needs the side-hustle, as she nets tens of millions annually
for her flagship reality show on E!,
Keeping Up
with the Kardashians.
Moreover, the woman has been paid up to $720,000 for Instagram posts
alone.
“Above
all else,” Professor Nabovsky concluded, “is it not true
intelligence to hold the widest possible market in thralldom?”
Kim
Kardashian is an object lesson in true intelligence: that is,
cornering the largest part of the market/intelligence distribution:
the airheaded middle and below. This accounts for over 95% of the
population (see Figure 1). It seems an outlier who enthralls the mean
by any means necessary is the genius of the highest order. Case in
point: a well-timed (if not especially well-made) sex-tape can prove
to be brilliant marketing stratagem. Certainly, it did for Ms.
Kardashian.
The
still-unbelieving reader would do well to remember that the absolute
last
concern of a genius of the truly highest order involves things like
astrophysics, quantum mechanics, and orbital calculus. That's 120-180
range stuff. The only mathematical construct a true genius is
concerned with is the lowest
common denominator.
All
told, the chic, savvy Kim Kardashian breaks down stereotypes about
what intelligence really is. In doing so, she also reminds us of an
under-quoted line from Edgar Allan Poe: “the greater the genius,
the greater the ass.” With Kim Kardashian, this proves true on all
applicable levels.
