145 is bright but no phenom. She’s more precocious than anything else.
We should all take IQ tests. They used to be given in schools back in the 50’s, 60’s and part of the 70’s. Mine was 136 in HS, and several years later was still at 136 in the military. Then at the beginning of the modern Internet, I took an on-line test and was still at 136..........
This little girl a smart cookie, but just isn’t a phenom. I’ve watched a ten year old chess wiz kicking the tail out of middle age master...the kid was working the crowd at a bookstore while the old guy was sweating bullets.
Yasser Seirawan
I’ve spoken with a 19 year old college senior taking 28 credits...spoke 5 languages, ten Chinese dialects and worked doing Cancer Research at Stanford for a summer job... 170 roughly.
Saw a five year old at at an organ store playing a wonderfully difficult song, two handed.
Being told she’s really bright, is probably not going to help her much. She is not a luminary. But she is brighter than about 99.99% of the people writing these stories.
DK