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
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> — Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network

This statement is highly incorrect in its implications, and to set the record straight, let's break it down.

First, there are several definitions and measures of intelligence, so it is not a simple matter to determine who truly has a "genius IQ." However, for the purpose of this discussion, let us use an IQ score of 130 as a benchmark for genius. According to the