Do you need high IQ to be a genius writer?
Do you need high IQ to be a genius writer?
Noah Brooks
Wyatt Bell
IQ is a meme for insecure STEM autists. Sure if you have a low IQ you're less likely to be able to write a good novel but it's not going to have a huge bearing.
Andrew Turner
No. But you need to stop frog posting.
Hunter Nelson
You don't.
Zachary Thompson
how much IQ do shakespeare, dante and cervantes had?
Jason Roberts
No, but you need high EQ
Sebastian Gray
>study and practice iq tests
>you can now ace the iq tests and have a high iq
Luis Lopez
Over 9000, each.
Gavin Perez
yea. not fluid intelligence.
Jaxson Robinson
This isn't really accurate
Practicing for an IQ test before taking it has been known to give test-takers a small performance boost... which with time fades back to their authentic performance level, almost exactly to dot.
Somebody with a sincerely high IQ will repeatedly achieve at high levels over time, and they won't require preparation either
IQ tests are incredibly reliable, much more so than just about any other psychological measurement. It's virtually impossible to make lasting improvements to your IQ; either you're born with a high one or you're not
To answer OP's question, J.D. Salinger had a mediocre IQ of 104 and he was still a very talented and influential writer. I would assume boy geniuses like Norman Mailer or academics like Susan Sontag had higher IQs, but Salinger was still a better writer than both of them