Can IQ tests settle whether Trump is a moron or not?

Following reports that Rex Tillerson questioned the US president’s brain power, the latter has offered to settle the matter with an IQ test. But are they really a way to reliably quantify intelligence?

Testy relations between Donald Trump and his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, have reached a new low. So bad has the braggadocio become that it seems the two silverbacks may be about to go out and settle things the old-fashioned way – with a pencil and a series of rotated geometric shapes.

Tillerson’s reported allegation that Trump was “a moron” resulted in Trump declaring to Forbes magazine that “I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.”

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