QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS...

WHAT IS ELON MUSK’S IQ?

- STORY: AMANDA HESS / NYT

For months, an internet-wide guessing game has swirled around the question of where Elon Musk’s intelligence falls on the bell curve.

President Donald Trump has called Muska “seriously high IQ individual’ Musk’s one-time biographer Seth Abramson wrote on the social platform X that he would “peg his 1Q as between 100 and 110’ and claimed that there was “zero evidence in his biography for anything higher”

Economics commentator Noah Smith estimated Musk’s 1Q at more than 130, a number gleaned from his reported SAT score. A circulating screenshot shows Fox News has pegged the number at 155, citing Sociosite, a junk website.

Pollster Nate Silver guessed that Musk is “probably even a genius’, and theorised that he may not always appear that way because, as he put it on X, “high IQs serve as a force multiplier for both positive and negative traits”