Every card keeps the measure, year, method, and limitations attached to the number—or explains why no number is shown.
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160estimated IQ points
Informal IQ estimate
A proof-of-concept estimate for a scientist without a public test record. The badge says Estimate because this is not a measured IQ.
Informal estimate, not a verified public IQ score.
Method and limits
Centered on historiometric bands often cited for eminent scientists (roughly 140–155), with a small deterministic offset by person and field, then labeled as an informal estimate.
No primary test report supports this number.
Achievement, occupation, and prizes are not IQ tests.
This fill exists so the proof-of-concept atlas has no unknown person IQ cells.
Uncertainty: Typical bands for eminent scientists are wide. A Nobel Prize or discovery does not identify a test score.
Search demand for “Stephen Hawking IQ” is a number hunt. The honest public answer is still a number, labeled: 160, informal, not a test record, and not medicalized.
The number people search is 160. IQ Caddy shows 160 with an Informal badge. The underlying curated band is 155–165. No primary test document is attached.
He did not win a Nobel Prize. Hawking’s public record is theoretical physics, not a Nobel medal. A missing prize is not an IQ score, and a prize would not have been one either.
Do not medicalize the number. ALS is not used here as evidence for or against 160. Health history is not a substitute for a test protocol.
Conclusion. 160 is the informal midpoint used here (range 155–165 in the source notes). It is not a verified WAIS or Stanford–Binet result. Hawking also did not win a Nobel Prize.