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Old 12-30-2007, 04:07 PM   #53
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I'm having a hard time believing that they have an accurate IQ score for a guy who has been dead for 2400 years...
This is what I find so unbelievably ridiculous about the link: does someone honestly expect us to believe that they can actually know the IQ of so many people who have been dead for so long since intelligence quotients began to be calculated only 100 years ago? Seriously.

Especially considering the cultural and social baises inherent in intelligence testing, coming even remotely close to accurate figures for Plato or even Copernicus or John Locke or Beethoven is nothing more than a crap-shoot.
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