“One fundamental problem with the estimates I've seen is that they tend to conflate intellectual ability with domain-specific achievement,” explains Simonton, who in 2006 published a study in the journal Political Psychology in which he estimated the IQs of 42 U.S. “If you google ‘Einstein's IQ’ you get plenty of results, but nothing that I would consider credible,” says Dean Keith Simonton, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Davis and author of The Genius Checklist: Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You Can Become a Creative Genius. News articles often put Einstein’s IQ at 160, though it’s unclear what that estimate is based upon. A score of 135 or above puts a person in the 99th percentile of the population. The maximum IQ score assigned by the WAIS-IV, a commonly-used test today, is 160.
Since then, the tests have evolved significantly. Indeed, IQ testing was still in its beginning stages in the early 1900s, when Einstein first emerged as a scientific luminary. There’s no indication that he ever was tested. The problem is, nobody really can say for sure what Einstein’s IQ was. There wasn't a proper test to measure Einstein's IQ There is a long list of news headlines about children in various countries who reportedly have higher IQs than Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist whose ideas altered humanity’s conception of reality and led to numerous inventions, from television to lasers.
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