[agere_contra]

A striking photo. She does look clever.

[presently no screen name]

knows the location of every U.S. state and the names of their capitals. She even carries a map of America everywhere she goes.

My son had a puzzle of the US and he knew the capitals, etc, at 3 years old. And then learned the license plates of most states, not all.

[albie]

Idiot Father says she needs a reality show. Good idea...BONEHEAD! Let’s not help her get an education and just let her be an active, happy little girl. Typical. Jerk wants to capitalize on her. The reality show will happen by the way.

[Red Badger]

I applied but was turned down.........I was too smart for them.......

[RegulatorCountry]

145 is bright but no phenom. She’s more precocious than anything else.

[Hot Tabasco]

Mensa, the high-IQ society for people who feel the need to belong to a self admiration society that pats themselves on their backs because they think they are so smart.

[Darteaus94025]

Wow - one hundred points higher than the average Dummocrat.

[steve86]

I’ve noticed the smartest people on FR never post their IQ scores on these threads. Some others do.

[3Quartets]

I’m glad to hear that the IQ test ‘indicates a person’s mental abilities relative to others of approximately the same age’ because I was thinking can this four year actually be smarter than me, a 42 year old, lol.

[lafroste]

I only have one little problem with this. Having a great memory, as she apparently does, is not the same thing as being able to put those disparate pieces of knowledge into unique new arrangements, to recognize complex patterns that others do not see.

I have never seen anything about how good Einstein's memory was. Did he know all fifty states and their capitals? I don't know. But he had the ability to detect patterns that others did not. Memory and intelligence are not synonymous.

[Hegemony Cricket]

If she can fold that map, it puts her way ahead of a whole lot of folks...

[GotMojo]

if she’s so darn smart, why does she carry a map around?

[KingLudd]

Betcha one day she’ll wish she could trade some of those iq points for a different first name. Anala? Really?

[RginTN]

My 4 year old niece explained to me how ‘her’ iphone works.

[shhrubbery!]

knows the location of every U.S. state and the names of their capitals

My daughter could do that at age 2. As someone above said, that shows she's precocious, but doesn't mean she's another Einstein.

(Some of Einstein's biographers painted him as a dull child and a poor student. His genius didn't become apparent until he was in his teens and early twenties.)

Well, good luck to this little girl. I hope she doesn't get a big head with all the praise and adulation ... and then once she faces real competition, finds out she can't measure up to all the hype. I'm always suspicious of parents who push their little children into that rather pathetic, self-congratulatory assemblage of [mostly] losers called Mensa.

[Lazamataz]

Anala Beevers is 4 and smarter than you. ...has an IQ over 145.

She's only got me beat by 5 points. I'll take her on.

[workerbee]

Nice article, thanks. Such a lovely little girl — I hope her parents appreciate and nuture her natural abilities (IOW please let the “reality show” crap be just a nasty rumor).

[hosepipe]

Many homeschoolers can do that... I know a few that can..
She needs to know/do something extra ordinary.. she hasn’t..

[MtBaldy]

Good for her. She’s cute but she’s not smarter than me, and I have the paper to prove it. Also have a Mensa membership.

By the way, for some who don’t know what they are talking about, I’ve been to many Mensa gatherings and the subject of IQ almost never comes up. There’s certainly no comparing or bragging about IQ at a Mensa meeting.

[Guenevere]

My first thought.....beautiful little girl, but poor kid....her parents think she should have a 'reality show'.....

They want to market this little 4 yr old....they see dollar signs...

So sad....she seems sweet and so soft spoken, I hope they don't ruin her.