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[edit] IQ

The widely reported IQ of 180 isn't very useful without knowing which scale it's on. Tests are usually either 15 or 16 points per standard deviation, but sometimes 24 points. Sharon Stone & Jimmy Woods might have tested 180 on a 24 point/sigma test, which converts to a very respectable 150 or so on Stanford-Binet or Wechsler. A score of 180 on either of those two scales are very rare. Anyone have any source for which scale Woods tested on?

The article suggests that it is on the Stanford-Binet test that he got 180, but that is so many standard deviations above normal that I think a citation is needed for this claim. --SVTCobra 22:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Why was he tested and at what age? I really stubbed my eye on this one and agree that it needs a citation and some sort of context. Also, I was reading the article about Mr. Woods' appearance on the Tonight Show 9/11/2006 while watching that very show. It made me wonder how it got into the article before the show was aired. SeattleSue 07:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poker

What? No discussion of poker? Interesting game. But, me do not allow to play in her..

[edit] Change of picture

I was thinking of changing the picture on the frontpage to either this or [http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3424/Events/3424/JamesWoods_Grani_5642083_400.jpg? path=pgallery&path_key=Woods,%20James%20(I) this]. Before I do so, what do you think? --Blue387 05:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

The first one is very good, I think.--Bluetype 19:41, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


The second one captures a greater sense of the man himself. SeattleSue 08:01, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I like the first one--Lorraine LeBeau 16:28, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SAT score of 779

The article claims that James Woods had a math SAT score of 779. Is this possible? I thought the scores were always multiples of 10, and can find no other cases where this was not the case.

Someone definitely botched that one up. SAT scores are only based on intervals of 10, so there's no way he got a 779. I think it was a mistype because to 9 is close to the 0 on the keyboard. Can anyone verify if his score was a 770, or find out if it was something else? I tried looking, but I couldn't find anything about his SAT scores.

Nishkid64 18:59, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm wondering why we need to know his SAT scores, especially as he did not complete a degree and is not in a professional field where it is required. Broader context would be helpful. SeattleSue 08:04, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Short Factor

It did say that his SAT scores were based off of an older form of measurement/scale, but I don't know how that one works... or was that only regarding his English/Reading scores?

I took the SATs in 1963 and my scores were definitely 697 and 735 (English and Math), so clearly at that time they were not multiples of 10. The year before, I took the PSAT (Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test) and Those scores were only two digits (like 69 and 74). Maybe that is where the multiple of ten idea comes from or maybe it changed some time after 1965 around when Woods would have taken them.

[edit] 9/11

9/11 source http://prisonplanet.com/transcript_actor_james_woods.html

Although Snopes also believes Woods' story [1], in the New Yorker article on the matter [2] (paragraph 11) an FBI agent stated that they can't connect any of the known hijackers with any of Woods' flights: "We don't know for sure."
If that is the case it is interesting that Woods was not asked to review video of the passengers boarding the flight in question. (I hope that is not too stupid an observation.) -Wfaxon 00:23, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

The Snopes' three sources seem pretty weak alongside The New Yorker. Every article recounts the story in identical words, a real cut-and-paste. It makes me wonder how big a role Woods' publicity agent played. These are the Snopes citations,

Brelis, Matthew and Michael Kranish. "Hijackers Reportedly Made Trial Air Trips." The Boston Globe. 11 October 2001 (p. A1).
Derbyshire, John. "At First Glance." National Review. 5 October 2001.
Griffith, Victoria. "Inside Al-Qaeda." [London] Financial Times. 30 November 2001 (p. 11).
Johnson, Glen. "Probe Reconstructs Horror, Calculated Attacks on Planes." The Boston Globe. 23 November 2001 (p. A44).

SeattleSue 08:40, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Family Tree

Short Factor

I didn't see anything in this article about his family history, children, or siblings (except where it refers to his mother not interested in his actor career and his brother dying in 2006). A family tree, or something about his children would be useful. In fact, it's almost confirmed that I'm his grandson (his son was Jesse Woods, who changed his last name to Lange, who married Tamara Lange, and Tamara Lange is my mother) but I don't know how many people know that. I was even able to visit Jesse recently.

[edit] James Woods in Family Guy

I kind of added a section that references James Woods in popular culture, though it's really just Family Guy due to the prominence of his name's appearence in the school's name. I also added a summary of his little fictional biography in the show. Immblueversion (talk) 22:30, 25 January 2008 (UTC)