I.Q. of Famous People

OK. Can someone please tell me how we can measure the IQ now of someone who lived and died before the test was even devised? Leonardo DaVinci, Universal Genius, Italy, 220 Charles Dickens, Writer, England, 180 Albert Einstein, Physicist, USA, 160 Benjamin Franklin, Writer, scientist,... more

Reviewed by bonbonnie Jun 07 2008, 11:29am ( 22 reviews ) • aceintelligence.com

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Rated by grumpyrhonda on Apr 12 2009, 6:45pm

Interesting but I'd like to know from exactly where the IQ scores were obtained.
Rated by mikegreaves1 on Mar 24 2009, 2:32am

interesting
Rated by OlivierLiDupuis on Mar 21 2009, 10:05am

Sources anyone?
Reviewed by SMA11784 on Jan 20 2009, 8:31am

I too am curious as to how the gauge the IQ of people who've been dead for centuries.
Rated by Skyfallen on Aug 19 2008, 3:12pm

It's interesting to look through this list but I just can't imagine how have they known Da Vinci's or Plato's IQ... 8-|
Rated by rssn on Jun 17 2008, 11:26am

the IQ test didn't even exist when many of those people were around.
Reviewed by Xarious on Jun 16 2008, 10:14am

This either, A, demonstrates how pointless IQ tests are, B, that this list is BS, or C, that I am marginally more intelligent than Stephen Hawking. I'm going to go with B

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