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By definition, a genius is a person with "transcendent mental superiority." Our most scientifically advanced method of identifying a genius is by an intelligence test. Those IQ tests most widely used at this time are the Wechsler, the Cattell, the Binet, and the California Test of Mental Maturity. Differences between tests can result in different IQ scores, but an assessment of approximately 100 denotes a person of average intelligence. A score below 80 indicates a clear degree of mental handicap, and a score of about 130 reflects intellectual giftedness. "The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Revised" is renowned as
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world's most accurate and valid intelligence test
of the twenty-first century. It is a
grueling one-on-one examination, consisting of extensive and prolonged face-to-face
mental interrogation of the subject by an eminently trained psychometrist.
This highly specialized IQ-test administrator not only judges every answer given by the subject for accuracy, conciseness and
completeness, but also times every answer with a stopwatch.