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to be honest, his EQ was probably incredibly low because of that IQ score, usually people who are exceptionally gifted in the IQ department lack any form of social skill.

He would also have been among the top 3 most intelligent people in a room of 125,000 people.

Agreed. Having high IQ is no bad thing in itself but it guarantees nothing in life. You still need other mental skills, as well as the drive to succeed. Of course, different people have different perceptions on what defines success.

As he said himself, it's not about your level of intelligence but about how you apply it. Working as a barrister, you need to make sure everything is 100% correct before you proceed at every single point. If he wasn't so worried about being right, his score would have been higher. This is affected by his life experience and how he views being correct far more than being quick.

He doesn't... he just went far too slowly. I did a very similar test as a child and scored in the 130s and am nowhere near as smart as him. Had he rushed it, he'd have scored much higher. He probably got every answer correct, but because he answered so few, it took his score down massively, probably only answering 60% of the questions. The test I did was by a child psychologist which had 5 stages: A similar word test, a similar block pattern test, a very basic time strict maths test, a words test and a children's level general knowledge test. Granted it was definitely for children so may have been much easier, but the patterns that I saw did look very similar, even after over 20 years

I don't think Shaun really has an IQ of 96. It'll be at least 120. At the very least. He's just played the game completely wrong.

His scores were pulled down because he took his time, his IQ is probably above average realistically.

This Is Why Mark Is My Favourite Chaser. A True Gentleman

That's a bit of an odd takeaway from this considering Shaun's job is literally to run a case so obviously you'd pick him?? Literally everyone would choose Shaun even without knowing any of the Chaser's IQs. It's like saying "Who would you want on your team in a football penalty shootout, Lionel Messi or Michael Jordan?" - one of them is incredibly experienced in that specific thing, but it doesn't change the fact that the other is one of the best basketball players of all time.

@@xonaclan7317 That is precisely the point I was making. In most jobs you do not need to be a genius. You do not need a genius in court, just a trained lawyer who knows her or his stuff and is prepared to put the work in. So Shaun’s approach makes him successful, and he doesn’t need to be a genius.

@@mikeymcfadden6889 I have respect for Shaun because he does the work. Only a fool would want to be represented by a lawyer, no matter how brilliant, who hadn’t prepared their client’s caseand just winged it.

its kinda as he said as well, hes far from dumb, not even slightly deserving of being dubbed unintelligent, but hes a perfectionist, he works slowly to make sure he gets things absolutely right, and usually the idea of high iq or gifted is being able to get things right quickly, hes an insanely hard worker and insanely smart, just not "gifted" per se

Part of the test is the time pressure. I'm also not convinced that Shaun could not have done the problems faster, he was just more concerned with being 100% on them.

Anyone who watches the chase knows that Shaun's issue is that he is very slow when it comes to answering questions. He was always very knowledgeable, that was never an issue. It is not shocking at all to me he would rate low on a test where accuracy and speed are almost just equally important. 96 IQ with his knowledge and what he has achieved would be insane.

@@mikeymcfadden6889 now your just being facetious

I agree about the woman being a bit too rude.

Yeah, I would get annoyed with the constant interruptions lol

Absolutely, his IQ is almost certainly far above average.

You get about 1 min per question. She was helping him.

​@@RJRJthere is a difference between helping and being patronising. Just remember she is just someone who provides iq tests. Shaun is a barrister.

Incorrect

It depends on what you define as "intelligence"

Problem solving, deductive reasoning, pattern recognition, analytical thinking etc are all buildings blocks of intelligence.

She's the expert here, not us. She knows why she says what she says. Likely at that point too much time had passed, probably more than expected.

It should be somewhere on ITVX, but you neglected to provide your location to know whether that’s available for you.

lmao

Stephen Hawking - 'People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.'. 0.1% of the population have an iq of 140 or above, im calling cap on that one as well

@@Vornez Stephen Hawking was on epstein island I wouldn't quote him

​@pevebe The idea of a wheelchair accessible lolita express got me laughing man

​@@pevebe There's zero evidence of that. Most of it comes from a meme that people believed was real.

I just asked ChatGPT what their IQs could be, and ChatGPT estimated those of all of them are between 130 and 150. So lower than that of Mark, and maybe, just maybe Ann, but much higher than Shaun.

Depends how you class stupidity. Are we taking emotional intelligence into account?

It has to be a Mensa or Mensa recognised test.

Can't be some shitty test off the Internet. I've allegedly got an iq of 125... but I don't. The Internet lies.

How is it racist?

Is he saying it is racist because black people score lower? Is he saying black people are dumber then???

Its not racist but iq isnt a test of intelligence its just a test of memory and pattern recognition

because the black guy has the lowest score, it doesn't work like that lol

IQ tests are racist because they proves certain races are better than others