You're right that there's a lot of mythology about IQ, but presumably a person could show documentation of such a thing - e.g. a score on a "real" IQ test administered by a professional qualified in psychometrics[1].
Same thing with a CPA exam - presumably, the professional organization keeps records of scores for some years and it would probably be possible to pull their file. (Similar to how you can contact a university registrar's office to verify a person's claim to a degree.)
Keep in mind, I'm not saying that the journalist actually did their fact-checking to this level of persistence - just that they could.
Same thing with a CPA exam - presumably, the professional organization keeps records of scores for some years and it would probably be possible to pull their file. (Similar to how you can contact a university registrar's office to verify a person's claim to a degree.)
Keep in mind, I'm not saying that the journalist actually did their fact-checking to this level of persistence - just that they could.
[1] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Modern_t...