100 Historical Geniuses Ranked by IQ | Cox’s Table

► In this video we explore the original ranking of 100 historical geniuses by their estimated intelligence quotent (IQ) as per studies made by expert psychologists Catherine Cox Miles and Lewis Madison Terman, published in 1926 under the title “Genetic Studies of Genius: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses“, based on Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale. ► How did some of the most brilliant people in history measure up in terms of intelligence? This is a question that has fascinated researchers for decades. One of the most influential studies on this topic was conducted by Catherine Cox Miles and Lewis Madison Terman, two pioneers in the field of psychology and intelligence testing. In the 1920s, Cox and Terman led a team of Stanford psychologists with a mission to estimate the IQ scores of 300 historical geniuses who lived between 1450 and 1850. They did this by carefully reviewing 1,500 biographies and evaluating each genius’s life achievements and childhood ab