Around the World, People Have Surprisingly Modest Notions of the ‘Ideal’ Life
&gt; Even when participants imagined that they could take a magic pill guaranteeing eternal youth, their ideal life expectancy increased by only a few decades, to a median of 120 years old. And when people were invited to choose their ideal IQ, the median score was about 130 – a score that would classify someone as smart, but not a genius.<p>Medians? The distributions would be more interesting.