Intelligence is the mental ability to reason, solve problems, think abstractly, learn and understand new material, and you can benefit from past experience.

IQ tests are from the late 19th Century, the works of Sir Francis Galton examined the differences in the achievements of generations of the English aristocracy. Alfred Binet expands on the work of Galton, develop a test to be administered to French children, to assist in predicting their academic success. AmericanPsychologist Lewis Terman at Binet test in the early 1900's to make them applicable for adults, and standards of performance in comparison to the founding of age. He also developed a scoring system, which he called the intelligence quotient or IQ

Today's IQ tests no longer be calculated scores with the IQ formula. Today's tests give a score that measures the participant's performance relative to the average performance of others of the same age who have made the test. The average value isarbitrarily set to 100 to make the results apply above the average of 100 to genius and smarter than those who are less than 100 guests as less intelligent.

The best of the United States has launched a new website SmartestofUS.com in an effort to focus on the importance of the individual intelligence to bring the future of the economy of the United States.

"The U.S. will never again a nation, care for the way in manufacturing, to our position as a world leader in the harvest, we need ourmost valuable asset, the individual intelligence. We must do something to recognize and encourage people who are likely to make decisions that affect us all in our businesses and our government to make. "