Now football (soccer for my American readers) players are not known for their intelligence. Although my beloved Watford FC boasted a Cambridge graduate in the heart of the field a few moons back, the average pro player can barely string a sentence together.
However earlier this week the the Chelsea Football Club doctor administered an IQ test to all the players. Frank Lampard, one of just a couple of London born players (as well as being an English international), scored an impressive 150 and a mark well above all his peers! To put this in some perspective, this puts Lampard Jnr. in the top 0.0000287% of the population. Pop Artist Andy Warhol scored an 86, Napoleon rated 145, and Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield narrowly behind Lampard at 149. Albert Einstein had an IQ of 160. However Frank and Bert both pale into insignificance when compared to Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg with a whopping 205!
Now as a Sociology graduate I have been “warned” of the discrepancies on the test, cultural bias, etc. but as a proud owner of a 139, I´ve got time for them.
I can´t provide the source, but it must have been one of the international magazines, possibly Time. It claimed to have calculated the IQ of every America president. Poor George W was at the bottom of the class with a lowly score in the early 80s. Doh!
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