LOL! To rephrase, I'd call her "about as smart as I am, likely not frighteningly more so, and certainly not significantly less so" and I don't consider *myself* PG.
It's been 20 years since I had an IQ test (no clue which one), and I think the scoring at the high ends is different now than it used to be.
There used to be ratio IQs, i.e. something that really pretended to be telling you that a 10yo with an IQ of 125 had a mental age of 12.5; the effect of this was to make scores over 200 not unheard of. I don't know when the switch over happened, but I think that's the big difference. FWIW I've never had a "real" IQ test, but I remember being told things like that my school only took people with IQs over 130, whereas it certainly was nothing like as selective as that would suggest now, so I guess that was old-style.
So much of the crazy-making of this is wrapped up in my own atrocious subject acceleration experience in math, where the teacher whose class I was accelerated out of resented the acceleration and publicly mocked any errors I made, and the teacher whose class I was accelerated into said "Well, if you're that smart, you can do the the class work and homework for the 3 weeks of material we've already covered, on top of the work we're just starting."
Gah. Yes, we all carry our baggage. Mine is about my lack of any kind of acceleration, and being pressurised into neurotic perfectionism instead of being exposed to things I might fail at. Hang around here and you'll meet lots of people working to overcome lots of different personal baggage; I find the variety of it very helpful.
