Marilyn vos Savant
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Marilyn vos Savant ( VOSS sə-VAHNT; born Marilyn Mach; August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn", a Parade magazine Sunday column wherein she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects, and which popularized the Monty Hall problem in 1990.
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Born
Marilyn Mach (1946-08-11) August 11, 1946 (age 79)St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation
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Spouse
mw- Robert Jarvik (m. 1987; died 2025)
Children
2
Tables
· Famous columns › "Two boys" problem
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· Famous columns › "Two boys" problem
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References
- Brooklyn Eaglehttps://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/08/11/milestones-august-11-birthdays-for-viola-davis-tomi-lahren-joe-rogan/
- "New York Magazine"https://books.google.com/books?id=qugCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39
- Financial Timeshttps://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4add9230-23d5-11de-996a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2h4SGOygh
- Legacy.comhttps://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/stltoday/name/kate-koupa-obituary?id=2965695
- Paradehttps://web.archive.org/web/20080423054835/http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_11-25-2007/Ask_Marilyn
- Paradehttp://parade.com/39855/marilynvossavant/keeping-it-in-the-family
- FamilySearchhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJ7Q-Y2H
- FamilySearchhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6DR-X9S
- FamilySearchhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JFT3-YW1
- FamilySearchhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLXB-B6Q6
- FamilySearchhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2CSY-3V7
- digi.ceskearchivy.czhttps://digi.ceskearchivy.cz/DA?menu=3&id=2175&page=214&x=2121&y=1629&z=41&r=0
- Paradehttp://www.parade.com/10477/marilynvossavant/the-first-sandwich-generation-true-trend-or-marketing-invention/
- New York Magazinehttps://books.google.com/books?id=qugCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36
- The Chicago Tribune
- FamilySearchhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6VLY-TQC8
- The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/science/robert-jarvik-dead.html
- Parade: Entertainment, Recipes, Health, Life, Holidayshttps://parade.com/373247/parade/love-stories-we-love/
- Parade: Entertainment, Recipes, Health, Life, Holidayshttps://parade.com/373270/kmccleary/marilyns-rules-for-a-happy-marriage/
- "About – National Women's History Museum – NWHM"http://www.nwhm.org/about-nwhm/press/press-publicity/cyber-launch-more
- "CSI Fellows and Staff"http://www.csicop.org/about/csi_fellows_and_staff/
- Parade: Entertainment, Recipes, Health, Life, Holidayshttps://parade.com/tag/ask-marilyn/
- Financial Timeshttps://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4add9230-23d5-11de-996a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1m5xleLR0
- Test Critiques Test Critique: The Mega Test
- Paradehttps://web.archive.org/web/20071011225653/http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2005/edition_07-17-2005/featured_0
- The Courier-Mail
- parade.comhttps://parade.com/ask-marilyn/
- "Game Show Problem"https://web.archive.org/web/20100310140547/http://www.marilynvossavant.com/articles/gameshow.html
- The New York Timeshttps://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEFDD1E3FF932A15754C0A967958260
- "MontyHallPaper.pdf"https://web.archive.org/web/20090530100031/http://www.usd.edu/~xtwang/Papers/MontyHallPaper.pdf
- marilynvossavant.comhttps://web.archive.org/web/20100310140547/http://www.marilynvossavant.com/articles/gameshow.html
- Paradehttps://archive.org/details/askmarilynbestof00voss
- The problem appeared in Ask Marilyn on October 13, 1991, with a follow-up on January 5, 1992 (initially involving two ba
- The Power of Logical Thinkinghttps://archive.org/details/poweroflogicalth00voss
- Human Biologyhttp://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol81/iss1/1/
- Fermat's Last Theorem and Wiles' proof were discussed in her Parade column of November 21, 1993, which introduced the bo
- American Mathematical Monthlyhttp://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~andrew/PDF/VS.pdf