Nationality: France
Birthdate: October 02, 1984
Birthplace: Le Puy en Velay, France
Residence: Geneva, Switzerland
Turned Pro: Pro (February 2000)
Plays: Right-handed (two-handed both sides)
Coach: Dr. Walter Bartoli
2010 Ranking: 16
Marion Bartoli: Tennis Star Reportedly Has IQ of 175
By Dan Tylicki (Featured Columnist) on March 22, 2011
Is Marion Bartoli’s IQ Really Over That of Albert Einstein, Plato?
Women’s tennis sometimes brings us major stories from areas we would not expect, and that has stayed true to form today. According to Chris Chase of Yahoo! Sports, after a semifinal matchup at the BNP Paribas Open, she noted her IQ of 175 yet acted reluctant to talk about it:
“I did a test when I was younger, but I’m not really someone that is really telling everyone, ‘Oh, I’m so smart.’ I’m kind of hiding it. But that’s how I am, you know. It just comes naturally. That’s how I was born with.”
The first question likely rushing to everyone’s mind is whether or not this is possible. It actually is, seeing as how her father is a doctor who also happens to be a chess buff; chess players tend to be those that have all-time highest IQs.
Source: http://bleacherreport.com
I tested 177 on the Stanford-Binet scale when I was younger. I won’t say it’s meaningless, but it doesn’t mean as much as people think. It correlates to a certain degree with success, but it doesn’t predict it. The only thing you can say for certain about a person with a very high IQ is that they are extremely good at doing IQ tests. You definitely can’t say, as the article seems to imply, that they are more intelligent than Einstein and Plato!
If true, if the IQ measured to be 175 Stanford Binet, then it would be amazing. But… Stanford Binet IQ is a number unrelated to age. The IQ used for children testing is/was an actual quotient defined as (the tested age)/(the actual age) X 100, a number relative to age. Obviously the absolute and the age-relative IQ-scales are different scales. See “Mental age vs. modern method”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
There are other IQ-scales as well. To sum up, if the scale is not mentioned, the IQ number is meaningless.
/I Lind
i am a dumbass and i am a rich medical doctor in florida who contibutes to chess often intelligence is overrated.
She said, “That’s how I was born with.”
IQ of 175. Right.
English grammar of pissant.
Priceless.
“chess players tend to be those that have all-time highest IQs”
Oh yes, anyone whose father is a “chess buff” must be a genius. And when did Plato take an IQ test, anyway?
TO: Anonymous at 12:45:00 AM CDT
“English grammar …”
I guess your reading skills are lacking; you failed to notice she is from France? Perhaps English is not her first language?
IQ is something stupid made up by stupid people to fool stupid people.
The non-verbal parts of it may have some merit, but the idea that someone is less smart because they don’t know some word? Pull the other one…
It was originally designed to split up children into different classes in a crude and fast way, and it worked ok for that. But it’s when they seriously started thinking they were onto something with it is when it became a joke.
The non-verbal tests would only make any sense if you couldn’t improve on them with practice, or with exposure to similar problems in your day-to-day life. But obviously, you can vastly improve your “spatial relations” and “abstract thinking” by practice, these are really all just a load of hooey. Anyone could get an IQ of over 140 if they studied enough for it.
Me too, IQ 175. 🙂
I agree that a score of 175 on the SB test would be truly amazing since the ceiling is 160. Measurements over 160 is on the WISC IV test.