What could be Freddie and Brian's IQ?

Since both of the men wrote usually commercial and fan favourite songs, Brian has a degree in Astrophysics and Freddie excelled in Art School, both are intelligent and genius.

What do you think could be their IQs?

My opinion is -

Freddie: Superior 120 - 129
Brian: Very Superior 130 - above

I think their IQ could be anything.

I don't believe that any single number can quantify a person's intelligence, let alone his artistic capabilities.

Yes! Artistic capabilities would not necessarily be all that correlated with IQ. But having said that, I expect that Brian's IQ would be very high. But I'm not sure whether Freddie would rate so highly on that sort of test, being more purely an artistic sort than Brian.

Having said that, I agree that both were geniuses in the artistic dimension, especially Freddie!

There is no way to tell. TS is just doing a little wishful thinking here. They plainly weren't retards, but other than that, there's nothing sensible we can say on the subject. The fact that Brian has an astrophysics degree suggests he might have a high IQ, but it doesn't provide any definite info.

We know that IQ tests and numbers are highly debatable these days for actual credibility, due to a a lot of reasons.

However...

I would say Mercury had an advanced EQ (emotional inteligence) which is something that blends with IQ becouse we are above all social animals.
His mixed cultural background, the fact his sexuality and love life ranged on a be a biger spectrum than a more "typical str8 man", and his inner struglles on that subject all gave him a wider perspective on things in generall.
Especially human ineteraction on any level.
Perhaps that is why his humor and imagination had always such an edgy layout.
Also beeing a frontman of that magnitude prooves a high amount of shelf-awareness and advanced communication/leadership skills.

Dr.May falls in the "more typical" IQ spectrum.
Clearly an intelligent man, with an highly analytical mind. More able to concentrate for a long period of time in a concept (music,physics, astronomy) and therefore undertand and highlight the details that make all the difference sometimes ( or all the times).
A more sceptical and sober man than Freeddie able to be in touch with his negative feelings ( before turn them into sarcasm or anger) therefore his stugles with depression.
Also seems more able to connect with abstract concepts.
However Freddie didn't have the opportunity to grow older for his "wisdom" to flourish, so we can't really say.

^^^

Great post Stelios.

To me it`s more important that they wanted to become "Rockstars"...a degree is possible for almost everyone with a regular IQ - of course some people have to work harder for it, but that`s life :)

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I'd say Brian easily above 140 given his phd subject and given his natural talent for music, numbers, and tinkering with mechanical engineering. Freddie, well this guy had an entire stadium full of people by the proverbial balls. They would clap, sing, and bark at his command. Not many people can rally the crowd like that aside from the very talented ones. The only other person who could be as effective in front of a stadium full of people in the XX century was Mick Jagger, Hitler and John Paul II, for different reasons off course but the artistic talent is what we are comparing here after all. All four were talented enough for the very last person at the back of the stadium to believe that the performance is directed personally at them. I'd say Freddie was 150 - 165. Deacon is probably 115- 130 tops, but Brian and Freddie easily top 1%. Not sure about Roger, he seems the only psychologically 'normal' in the entire band.

[QUOTE] [b]luthorn wrote:[/b]

I'd say Freddie was 150 - 165. Deacon is probably 115- 130 tops, but Brian and Freddie easily top 1%. .[/QUOTE]

150 - 165????

Mensa catagorise people above 98%. These parameters vary widely according to the particular scale used (Stanford-Binnet, Cattell.) 131/2 seems to be an average/mean so 150-165 to me seems ridiculously high and a tad unbelievable IMO.

Why would you feel Deacy was less intelligent (quotiently) than Fred? Electronics degree would seem to follow similar mathematical lines that BM's maths/science bent wouldn't you think?

[QUOTE] [b]luthorn wrote:[/b]

= Not sure about Roger, he seems the only psychologically 'normal' in the entire band.[/QUOTE]

In a way i agree about the psychologically 'normal' thing, about Roger.
But does that mean a lower IQ? Or better, a not that high one?
Not necessarily exclusively in the band but generally speaking.

After careful consideration and weighing all the evidence, I've changed my opinion. It's easy to see what their IQ's were/are.


Brian's IQ is somewhere around 109-112 because of his curly hair, Freddie's would be 110-113 considering his teeth, and Roger's IQ is EXACTLY 111.5 (or 111.7 with his sunglasses on).

John, on the other, has proven to have an IQ of well above the others by staying out of the Queen+ projects... It's obvious that his IQ is at least 115.

"Brian's wig" is the exact replicate of Sir Isaac Newton's. He loves science and fits in well with the science community. I give him the highest overall IQ although common sense seems to elude him at times.

BM is the highest educated of the four, so it seems logical that he would have an higher IQ. He also seems a very focussed character. I'm not sure about Freddie, everyone seems to have him not far behind Brian, but I wonder if he maybe lower than Roger. If we take education as a determining factor, then what we carry through life should reflect this. If you look at the lyric writing past the first four Queen albums, and into the 80's and beyond it's Roger who seems to cover more serious subjects. Maybe reflecting a character who is or was more willing to learn, in the same way as BM may have been.

As Ludwigs pointed out JD's electronics background and education stand him in good step as a contender for a high IQ. But i think someone who achieved an art diploma following a good standard of education, but little else until Queen became a success would maybe be the person with the lowest IQ

People here seem to have an extremely hard time understanding that artistic accomplishments and/or the attainment of a Ph.D. in any subject do not provide any but the vaguest indications regarding IQ. We don't know any of the Queen-members' IQs and we never will, that's something you're going to have to live with. All this speculation, ranging from thought-through-but-still-unreliable-guesses all the way to bat-crap-crazy-deification, doesn't provide anything meaningful.