8 9 10 12 12 14 16 Adult 15 Superior Adult 12 --- ---- Total 15 7
Since his actual age is 8 years 4 months and his Mental Age is 15 years 7 months, his IQ is 187. On the curve of the distribution of intellect he stands eleven times the probable error (11 PE) removed from the norm, a position occupied by but one child in more than a million. He stands as far removed from the average in the direction of superiority as an idiot stands removed from the average in the direction of inferiority.
An analysis of his performance shows that E had extraordinary appreciation of the exact use of words and of the shades of difference between words. He gave correct meanings for 64 words out of the 100 in the vocabulary test. His vocabulary thus includes 11,520 words. The score of the Average Adult is 65 words. Thus he just missed scoring on this Average Adult test. Samples of his definitions are as follows:
scorch--is what happens to a thing when exposed to great heat. quake--is a kind of movement, unintended. ramble--is a walk taken for pleasure. nerve--is a thing you feel by--for instance, cold. majesty--is a word used to address a king--your majesty. Mars--is a planet. peculiarity--is something you do that nobody else does. mosaic--is a picture made by many small pieces of marble. bewail--is to be extremely sorrowful. tolerate--is to allow others to do what you don't like yourself. lotus--is a kind of flower. harpy--is a kind of half-bird, half-woman, referred to in Virgil. fen--is a kind of marsh. laity--is _not_ clergy. ambergris--it comes from a whale. straw--the stalk of a cereal plant. lecture--someone giving a very long talk about something to an audience.
E also has a prodigious ability for comprehending and formulating abstract ideas, and for working with symbols. He gave the differences between the abstract concepts under Average Adult as follows:
_a_--laziness and idleness. Laziness is that you don't _want_ to work; idleness is that you _can't_, for a while.
_b_--evolution and revolution. Evolution is making things from the beginning; revolution is changing them.
_c_--poverty and misery. Poverty is when you don't have anything; misery is how you feel when someone insults you.