What was the IQ of einstein?
Everybody thinks that Albert Einstein’s IQ was very high, but this is deffinitly not the case, his adult IQ was just above 160. He was deffinitly a genius, but this was not primarily due to his IQ, but his amazing level on transcendental thinking. Transcendental (= raised, sublime) thinking means that he can raise his thinking (i.e. the paths it takes) above the ordinary level. Basically it means that he was extremely creative and imaginative. An IQ score is a combination of brainspeed and brainpower. You have a certain amount of time to take an IQ test, but if you don’t mind the time and just make the test and take more time than allowed, you can score up to 30 points higher. So Albert Einstein’s IQ was just above 160 (which is also very high) but he takes his time and he raises his thinking to an amazing level and then you can compare him to somebody with an IQ of 200. So Einstein had a lot of brainpower but his brainspeed compared to brainpower was low.
Before talking about IQ one must know what the intelligence and creativity are all about. Intelligence is our ability to learn a piece of knowledge that already exists, for example if 5 persons start learning a new language (say Russian) then under controlled condition the most intelligent of them will learn it the fastest.On the other hand the creativity is our ability to produce some thing new or de novo. Experts opine that highly intelligent people are not creative and most of the creative people are of average intelligence.
