I think IQ is a terrible way to analyze someone. I have been tested to an IQ of 181 but my learning disabilities cause me to excel in some areas and falter in others. Though the places I faulted are compensated in other ways, it is difficult for others to grasp how difficult those compensation activities are and the impact on the speed for which genius function. For instance, my memory is hierarchal. To recall some facts my brain searches for information using sort of a bread crumb approach to remember something. This appears to others as if I don't know or cannot understand. Yet, I come up with better solutions and have more thorough understanding than they know. This brings me into conflicts with others during argument. Because I appear to be an idiot in the short term and a savant in the long term.
Adult IQ's of Famous Geniuses:
Bobby Fischer (Chess Player) 187,
Galileo Galilei (Astronomer/Philosopher/Physicist) 185,
Rene Descartes (Philosopher/Mathematician) 180,
Immanuel Kant (Philosopher) 175,
Charles Darwin (Naturalist) 165,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer) 165,
Albert Einstein (Physicist) 160,
George Eliot (Writer) 160,
Nicolaus Copernicus (Astronomer) 160,
Rembrandt van Rijn (Painter) 155