More IQ Stuff

   In the film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar the chimpanzee (played, of course, by the incomparable Andy Serkis) is a hyperintellegent chimpanzee. Like, hyperintellegent. By age two, so narrates Will Rodman (James Franco's character), Caesar was completing puzzles and models designed for children eight years and up. He shows "cognitive skills that far exceed his human counterpart." Far exceed. In terms of IQ, let's lowball that and say that's 120, or the first decile of intelligence (top 10%).  It's probably quite higher, since 40% better than average isn't that "far." Remember, this is human intelligence here, what with the exceeding of the human counterpart. In other words: IQ so high, it's scary. That's at age two.

   Several montage sequences later, Caesar's IQ is said to double in a year, between ages seven and eight. Going by what we estimated his IQ to be around earlier, that would be an IQ of 240, or, in other words, 80 more points than Albert Einstein's estimated intelligence quotient.  Keep in mind, we're still dealing in human IQ here, applied to a chimpanzee. If we were to increase IQ between the ages of two and seven, which little doubt happened, the IQ would be even higher. Like, say, 300-400, IQs so high that not only would they entail eidetic memory, but also extrasensory powers and clairvoyance.

   Alright, maybe it's not that terrifying. So he's better at puzzle games than most kids. That's probably just the picture-based ape mind he's got. Most people with Asperger's can probably do the same thing. And the IQ they're talking about there? Probably ape IQ. Different from human IQ. I don't know how ape IQ is measured. It's probably a storied and fascinating field. But it's probably very likely got different earmarks from how human IQ is measured.

   Probably.

   Even then, his IQ would start out well above average for an ape, then continue rising from there. So my earlier estimate of 300-400 wouldn't be that far off. Though this time no supernatural abilities are entailed by these numbers. Still scary smart, but not scary scary smart. Well, yeah, scary scary smart, but not scary scary human smart. There'd still be plenty of humans who'd be able to outfox this ape.

   That is, until the ALZ-113 gets them. Argh.

   Oh well. It's just a movie.