How Geniuses Spent Their Days

[L Verge]

I want to know how many of us know our own IQs, much less those of the great leaders. I have always been told that our IQs are listed in our school records. Is that true? When do they test for that? I was a teacher for nearly a decade and never remember any of those darn standardized tests being designated as one for IQ.

Those IQ lists (at least prior to 1900) make me suspect that they are compiled by people pretending that they know enough to rank people according to what they think the IQs should be.