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!
“‘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!
“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.
So, she’s ALMOST AS SMART as Obama. Good for her.
They need to start a think tanks with a bunch of these “super genuiuses” and task them with the problem of making a Faster Than Light drive and anti-gravity drive for spaceships.
We need this technology, forst and foremost to escape the politcal persecution that being a common sense conservative will soon be brought down upon us by the totalitarian control state.
If I want to flee the unified communist big brother earth government, I would like to do it in style at speeds faster than light....
IQ means little... mine has been measured at 158. Wait... did I just dis myself? I must be a dummy to do something like that! ;-)
Hawking isn’t nearly as smart as most people think he is, including himself. Einstein on the other hand was the real deal, but considerably smarter in visualizing geometry than anything else.
Too bad she’s not a boy who could throw a football better than Aaron Rodgers. She’d make gazillions and her dad could really be proud of her then.
The highest IQ ever to be scored in the advanced IQ test was by Abdesselam Jelloul. Who scored an adult IQ of 198 in a 2012 test which included 13 dimensions of intelligence (analytical, spatial, logical, memory, musical, linguistic, philosophical, moral, spiritual, interpersonal, intra-personal, bodily and naturalist). Unlike other tests, the advanced IQ test includes more measures that other tests cannot assess.
Guinness retired the category of "Highest IQ" in 1990, after concluding that IQ tests are not reliable enough to designate a single world record holder. So do not expect to find any reliable information about the highest IQ.
Previously, the highest IQ ever recorded was by Marilyn vos Savant with 228; however that is a mental status ratio IQ (used for children). Adult IQs are measured by standard deviations, in which her adult IQ would compute to about 185, which is lower than famous chess master Bobby Fischer (187). Kim Ung-Yong is a Korean former child prodigy. Kim was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ"; the book estimated the boy's score at about 210. Albert Einstein was considered to "only" have an IQ of about 160.
Other contenders would be Leonardo da Vinci, estimated at ~190. Another would be William James Sidis, estimated also at a similar level. Theoretically speaking, 200 is the maximum IQ possible. All the preposterous stories about people with IQs of well over 200 are impossible. In fact, no one has probably ever reached an adult IQ of 200.
Here is a list of individuals with the highest IQ as well as other popular prodigies:
| Name | Score | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Abdesselam Jelloul | 198 | Scored in a 2012 test including 13 dimensions of intelligence. |
| William J. Sidis | 197 | Child prodigy with exceptional mathematical & linguistic abilities. |
| Christopher Langan | 195 | Called "the smartest man in America". |
| Garry Kasparov | 190 | Chess grandmaster, writer and political activist. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ~190 | A genius polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, scientist... |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | 190 | Philosopher primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics... |
| Sir Isaac Newton | ~190 | Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist... |
| Bobby Fischer | 187 | A chess Grandmaster and a child prodigy. |
| Marilyn vos Savant | 185 | Magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright. |
| Kim Ung-Yong | 170 | Korean civil engineer and former child prodigy. |
| Albert Einstein | 160 | Theoretical physicist (the general theory of relativity). |
| Akrit Jaswal | 146 | Child prodigy who performed his first surgery at the age of 7. |
| Grigori Y. Perelman | ? | Solved the Poincaré conjecture. |
Einstein said imagination is more important than intelligence.