What is the doctor's IQ?

What is the average IQ for a doctor? According to research studies, the average IQ for medical doctors is around 120 to 125. It can vary between physicians and nurses. Generally, doctors can also score on IQ tests above 85, and top doctors can score over 105.
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Are doctors high IQ?

Doctors are smart. The IQ of the average American physician falls somewhere between 120-130, putting most doctors in the Very Superior Intelligence category on a standard IQ test.
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Can a person with an average IQ become a doctor?

The average IQ of MDs/DOs/JDs is around 125. You need to be an intelligent individual to graduate college and do well on the MCAT even before you can manage medical school.
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What is the average IQ of a nurse?

If the average nurse has an IQ of 110-120, that is average with a few being slightly above average.
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Do I have to be smart to become a doctor?

You don't have to be smart to become a doctor. You can still get into (some) med schools with average grades. If you have a desire to learn and a commitment to the task then you can make big strides. Don't let your own perceived lack of intelligence stand in your way!
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Are Doctors Smart? IQ by Profession



What IQ do you need to be a surgeon?

According to research studies, the average IQ for medical doctors is around 120 to 125. It can vary between physicians and nurses. Generally, doctors can also score on IQ tests above 85, and top doctors can score over 105.
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What is the IQ of a lawyer?

Some professionals, such as lawyers, exhibit high average IQ scores (in the 115-130 range), while at the same time scoring lower than the general population on EI (85-95). Nor does emotional intelligence correlate with any particular type of personality.
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What is the IQ of an engineer?

So, for engineering, law or becoming a top executive, you need an IQ roughly one standard deviation above average, around 115.
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Is a IQ of 120 good?

An IQ score of 120 is a good score since it means superior or above-average intelligence. A score of 100 is said to be the average IQ and anything above that is above average intelligence for the person's age.
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Can you raise your IQ?

Although science is on the fence about whether you can raise your IQ or not, research does seem to suggest that it's possible to raise your intelligence through certain brain-training activities. Training your memory, executive control, and visuospatial reasoning can help to boost your intelligence levels.
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Which profession has highest IQ?

Medical professionals, particularly doctors, bagged the number one spot. A study conducted by the University of Wisconsin indicates that doctors have the highest IQ on average.
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How high is a 145 IQ?

130 to 144: Moderately gifted. 145 to 159: Highly gifted. 160 to 179: Exceptionally gifted. 180 and up: Profoundly gifted.
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What is Elon's IQ?

Elon Musk's IQ is often brought up in conversation. But what does the evidence say? A study by Forbes in 2018 found that Musk had an IQ of 160. This is well above average and puts him in the top 2% of all people on the planet.
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What is a normal IQ for a 7 year old?

The average or normal, range of IQ is 90 to110; IQ scores of at least 120 are considered superior.
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What is Stephen Hawking IQ level?

Albert Einstein is believed to have had the same IQ as Professor Stephen Hawking, 160.
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What is a genius IQ for a 13 year old?

Any score of above 140 is considered to be that of a genius.
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What is the top 1% of IQ?

An average person scores 100 on an IQ test using the Stanford-Binet IQ scale. A score of 137 to 160 is considered the top 1 percent to . 01 percent of all scorers.
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What is the average IQ of a pilot?

As can be seen, pilots are on average quite intel- ligent, with Full ScaleIQ scores of 119. Table I also includes the stabilitycoefficient, the standard error ofestimate,and the 95% confidence band for each of the scores.
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Are doctors or lawyers smarter?

A recent analysis (via KevinMD) of average IQs of individuals in certain professions revealed that doctors have a mean IQ of almost 10 points higher than lawyers.
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Are doctors smart or hard working?

Somewhere out there there is a study that says that doctors on average have an IQ about 120-130 which is pretty intelligent (about 2 standard deviations above the mean). Building a multimillion dollar buisiness is harder than you think and there is a lot more risk than going through school.
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What is the highest IQ ever recorded?

Marilyn Vos Savant (IQ score of 228)

This American entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the person with the highest IQ back in 1986. To this day there are only two other people with a recorded higher IQ than her.
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