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Intellectual Brilliance

A composite of creativity, verbal fluency, and conceptual breadth that is often used to estimate presidential IQs.

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Feb 6, 2026

What have psychologists and historians said about the usefulness of IQ estimates for evaluating presidential performance?

Psychologists who have tried to estimate argue that intelligence-related measures—especially constructs like “” and Openness—correlate with historians’ rankings of presidential performance, but they a...

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