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.
Do you mean that
or do you mean:
Mensa is a fraud.
It means you can get to 55 really, really, quickly?
Also, Christopher Hitchens destroyed them in an essay many years ago. It was hilarious.
Christopher was a self-deprecating anti-semitic inebriate.
But aside from that, he was a nice guy.
Had you ever met him in person ?
Are you saying that “social skills” and sartorial chic are the determinants of intelligence?
BTW, many “retarded people” have their clothes bought for them by others who love them.
Scientology, as a bait to lure you into their offices, offers free IQ tests. Enough said.
Say What??
Say it ten times really fast, that's what. LOL
Well, that was meant ironically, Mr. Grammar Police.
Yes, I did meet him once when he signed my copy of No One Left to Lie To. He was very nice, very gracious. He was also smoking and drinking out of a vodka bottle. He had style!
Uh... do I know you...er, like, d'you know me?
(dang, I coulda used alla them brain cells about now.)
Yeah, that IQ thing is OK, I guess. But I don’t really worry about what mine is since I have such a HUGE Johnson......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2gIdMRwfuM
You got it right.
Well, I hope she has better educational luck than I did. Perhaps her parents can steer her education in the direction it needs to go. I couldn’t get taught the things I desperately wanted to learn.
As for Mensa. I found them to be creepy! They somehow got my IQ test results, and tracked me down, after I’d left home, and gone to another city, in another state, and disappeared into the music scene. I went to their “get together party” and snuck out the door after 20 minutes. Bunch of stuck-up jerks.
LOL. That sounds like one of my high-school teachers. His philosophy was that no one was capable of perfect work so he would not give a perfect score. If you aced the exam he would return it with "-1 GP" (general principles) and a grade of 99.
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