Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his ā€œfanboysā€ who have attempted to use the billionaireā€™s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

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    You cannot reason a man out of a position he did not reason himself into.

    If youā€™re looking at a guyā€™s resume and it includes graduating from UPENN and getting admitted into Stanford, then launching/guiding/acquiring multiple successful companies and youā€™re then concluding ā€œnah this guy ainā€™t smartā€ or ā€œiā€™m not sure if heā€™s smartā€ itā€™s a position you reached not through logic/reason.

    The author is taking a shot in the dark on Muskā€™s IQ and what the author wants it to be. 110 is normie. Isaacson, a very respected biographer, claims Muskā€™s SAT was 1400, which would have put him somewhere around ~93 percentile. I want to see proof of that score, but Iā€™d guess Muskā€™ IQ is around 125-130 and around 95-97 percentile.

    Trying to boil Muskā€™s success down simply to lying is vastly underestimating him and playing in his favor.