This claim was made popular by being said in the movie The Social Network. It exactly says:

> Did you know there are more people with genius IQs living in China than there are people of any kind living in the United States?

Many movies take liberties with facts. This particular quote is not factually correct – or more precisely, it has to be qualified much more than it is here. While there may be more people with scores above 130 (using the IQ cutoffs of the WAIS-III test) living in China than there are people in the United States, there’s not enough data available to claim that about people with “genius IQs,” defined as those exceeding
It sounds very impressive, doesn't it? People often quote it as a fact that highlights the vast population of China but it's not entirely correct.

More than 32 million people in the United States have an IQ score above 130, according to a study in Psychological Science in the Public Interest back in 2005 (PDF). Estimates of the number of Chinese who score in the same range vary widely, with some suggesting