Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell playing chess at her home in Northampton (Picture: SWNS) Posted on 08/09/2013 10:53:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell playing chess at her home in Northampton (Picture: SWNS)
An 11-year-old girl has become one of the smartest people in the UK by getting the maximum score on a Mensa IQ test – higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell, from Northampton, scored a mind-blowing 162 on the Cattell B scale.
The schoolgirl sat the supervised test with her father Dean, 45, who is already a member of the elite intelligence club with an IQ of 142.
Her father, who is a lawyer, came out of the test thinking Cerys had ‘fluffed it’ because of the speed at which she completed it.
‘I always joke and say “oh, you know you’re not as smart as me”, we always have that banter’, Mr Cooksammy-Parnell said.
Cerys has a higher IQ than Albert Einstein (Picture: AP)
However, she teased that he was the last to finish each section as the competitive pair sat apart in the Milton Keynes test room.
While the Year 6 school pupil was pleased with her score, she was more pleased to have beaten her dad.
‘When I was applying to Mensa he said “oh I’m already in Mensa, Cerys”, he was like showing off a bit, so it’s good that I got my own back on him,’ she said.
While she said she might aim for a career as prime minister or a job in banking, she brushed off any comparisons to Einstein or Stephen Hawking.
‘You can’t really compare me to Einstein because he’s already achieved so much, you can’t really judge someone on their potential.’
Having discovered her gift, her parents are now considering whether to let her continue living a normal life or ‘push her intellectually’.
‘I was expecting her IQ to be upwards of 145, there’s no doubt about that, but to actually hit the maximum it was a surprise. We’re all really excited and proud of her,’ Mr Cooksammy-Parnell added.
She might be a smart girl but Mensa’s a fraud.
grade inflation
Where’s a picture of Barry Bostock from Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick. He was also from Milton Keynes IIRC.
Is she smart enough to know what to do with it?
An 11-year-old girl has become one of the smartest people in the UK by getting the maximum score on a Mensa IQ test
If you can get every question right then it isn't a good test. A test has to find your limit, so any test you get 100% should have been harder. Or at least that's what one physics professor told me who took it as a personal insult whenever anyone got 100% on one of his exams.
Hermione Granger alert!
I also knew several highly intelligent people in High School who got mixed up in drugs and fried their brains. What a waste!
She’s very good at outsmarting stupid tests, and solving puzzles!
Really; why do you think that ?
“‘You can’t really compare me to Einstein because he’s already achieved so much, you can’t really judge someone on their potential.’”
That statement right there shows a LOT of real intelligence!
I tested at 134 on Cattell but did not qualify for Mensa due to poor testing on the entrance exam.
Intelligence is so multifaceted that value-testing on specific tests is not a reliable indicator of overall intelligence.
I may be “smart” by a number, but, for instance, my brother could hang a door, install a floor, or fix a toilet quicker than I could, because I tend to overthink everything.
So now, there will be a a teenager who really does know everything.
“An 11-year-old girl has become one of the smartest people in the UK by getting the maximum score on a Mensa IQ test”
That is NOT how she became one of the smartest people in the UK. (eye roll)
with her father Dean, 45, who is already a member of the elite intelligence club with an IQ of 142
Well this statement just goes to show that a high IQ does not mean intelligent!
A Lawyer for goodness sakes!
Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell
Say What??
Well, that is a smart comment.
It’s easy to determine that Mensa is a fraud. Go to a Mensa meeting and then go to a meeting of retarded people and notice that they buy their clothes in the same places and that they have equal social skills.
See, true intelligence isn’t just about scamming an IQ test.
It’s not so much the brains, but it’s what you do with them. I know a lot of smart people who do nothing but talk about philosophical issues and accomplish nothing.
I also knew several highly intelligent people in High School who got mixed up in drugs and fried their brains. What a waste!
I know a more than a few supposedly smart people who have so little common sense that inthe real world they a functionally impaired.
Then I know a few really smart people who also have common sense who just don’t give a crap and excel in their field but don’t look to change the world because the environemnt these days seems to reward sucess so they bow out because the deck is stacked against success.
I would rather have someone who has a high “common sense IQ” than a idiot savant who has a high “book learning IQ” who couldn’t pour piss out of boot until they read a several thousand page book on liquid dynamics and gravity.
So, she’s ALMOST AS SMART as Obama. Good for her.
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