Posted on 10/13/2012 2:57:36 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
ACHIEVING an IQ score higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking seems almost impossible, but not for one young girl.
Northwood College School pupil, Fabiola Mann, of Harrow on the Hill, scored a remarkable IQ of 162 in this summers University of Londons (UCL) Mensa medical test. It is the highest possible score anyone can achieve in the UK and European test. The 15-year-old beat physicists Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein, who both scored 160 when they took it.
Being a whizz kid at puzzles and mathematical tests, Fabiola decided to give it a go, she sat the test on July 30 at UCL in Gower Street, central London, and received her results on August 20, she said: When I got the results I couldnt believe it. The three-hour test was quite intimidating as it was in a very formal setting. There were about 30 other people taking the test and with the exception of one other candidate they were all adults in their 20s and 30s.
Mensa is a society for people with a high IQ, to take the three-hour test you have to be over 10-years-old. The scoring is amended marginally for 10 to 18-year-olds who can score a maximum of 162. Those over 18 can only score a maximum of 161.
After completing her GCSEs and A-levels, Fabiola wants to study medicine at Cambridge University. She said: I am excited to explore the new possibilities that something like this has opened up for me, beating Einstein and Hawking is pretty scary, I dont think I will ever be able to measure up to what they have achieved but I hope to achieve my dream of being a successful doctor and helping others.
Along with being a fan of science fiction books, Fabiola loves to play chess and martial arts.
Fabiolas mother, Rene Mann, 46, said: As parents we are very proud of Fabiola and we hope she will be able to use this gift in a meaningful way that helps others and utilises her potential.
The headteacher of Northwood College, Jacqualyn Pain, said: I was delighted to hear about Fabiolas success. At Northwood College we focus on raising young women who know their own minds and are creative and flexible thinkers, as well as being able to achieve outstanding results. We are all thrilled with Fabiolas achievement. Fabiola received her official certificate on Wednesday last week.
You’re right. How come somebody hasn’t started a “wisdom” club?
My experience is the higher the IQ the less stable, but that’s for very high IQ’s.
Is it genetic or environmental?
Dang! She beat me too.
no “return trip” mentioned.
The ‘return trip’ mentioned was part of the comment I referred to. It wasn’t my post. I only copy and pasted his post and answered it.
My opinion, for whatever it is worth - (I could probably qualify for Mensa, but don’t get the point).
The question isn’t worth spending one minute of our precious time here on earth, for it offers no information about human talents unrelated to intelligence.
Only fools think IQ tests are a measure of their worth. God makes fools of these sad people.
Wrong-o, wrong-o.
The average speed for NASCAR drivers isn't calculated by averaging their lap speeds, but by calculating their average speed according to elapsed time over distance covered.
It has ever been thus...
See #87
“The car is still at the top of the hill.”
No. It is in Alpha Centauri and still decelerating.
Here is another of the questions Wertheimer sent to Einstein.
The answer is deceptively simple. hint..if you are doing a bunch of calculations you are going about it in the wrong way.
4.Amoeba Propagation An amoeba propagates by simple division; each split takes
3 minutes to complete. When such an amoeba is put into a glass container with a nutrient
fluid, the container is full of amoebas in one hour. How long would it take for the container
to be filled if we start with not one amoeba, but two?
57 minutes
its not asking for the average speed. its asking for the speed for the second half of the trip to be averaged with the first half of the trip to complete the trip at an average of 30 mph. An average of 30 mph means you you complete the ENTIRE trip in 4 minutes. it takes you 4 minutes to do the first half, so there is no time left to do the second part.
So that's my problem ;-)
Oh, I get it. It’s a trick question. The ‘length’ is artificially divided in ‘half’, limiting the speed during that first half so that it takes at least 4 minutes.
Then both miles are lumped together and the time is used to calculate AVE MPH.
I understand that AVE MPH is based on distance per time, so I see how the 15 mph limit ensures that there is not a possible answer.
However, I don’t like rigged tests. SO.... here’s my answer (I have my own ‘tricks’)
Take the car to a Custom Auto shop and have nitrous installed. Don’t tell the guys who are timing you. Once you head off up the hill, engage the nitrous. This will give you plenty of speed to ensure you can go fast enough on the downhill side to make it there in four minutes.
Now to it. I hope be forgiven going off topic. It was the redoubtable Potter St Elementary School, Northwood Hills, where in 1946, 14 year olds were pushed out into the world. I was one of them. For it was work, work and more work. Listening to old men moaning about things had changed. How well did I come to know Northwood. We took our place in the hard scrabble post war years. Luckier than our predecessors in the horible 1930's. Elton John got his start at the Northwood Hotel, but was from nearby Pinner.
Another ramble, but enough said by me. Good luck to the "young uns".
Your riddle does not resemble the problem posed at all: the problem stipulates that the vehicle in question has already traveled 1 mile, while your riddle is completely a priori.
Tch, tch. Any time someone speaks of velocity, time is DISTINCTLY part of the issue. Re-take Physics 101, wherein you will be sharply disabused of any notion to the contrary.
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