Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his āfanboysā who have attempted to use the billionaireās IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.
The article literally says ā110ā which is indeed above average. Furthermore, I donāt think anyone is underestimating Elon at this point: he built a cult of personality over twenty years that last to this day (smaller than it was a decade ago, but still there) and he bought the presidency.
He can do all those things and not be generally smart. His skill, like trumpās, is lying in a distracting way. Neither of them is likely to ever invent a new thing or necessarily even be good at anything else. But they donāt need to, society values distracting liars above most everything else.
You cannot reason a man out of a position he did not reason himself into.
If youāre looking at a guyās resume and it includes graduating from UPENN and getting admitted into Stanford, then launching/guiding/acquiring multiple successful companies and youāre then concluding ānah this guy aināt smartā or āiām not sure if heās smartā itās a position you reached not through logic/reason.
The author is taking a shot in the dark on Muskās IQ and what the author wants it to be. 110 is normie. Isaacson, a very respected biographer, claims Muskās SAT was 1400, which would have put him somewhere around ~93 percentile. I want to see proof of that score, but Iād guess Muskā IQ is around 125-130 and around 95-97 percentile.
Trying to boil Muskās success down simply to lying is vastly underestimating him and playing in his favor.