[Alex Murphy]

Northwood College School pupil, Fabiola Mann, of Harrow on the Hill, scored a remarkable IQ of 162 in this summer’s University of London’s (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.

Oh, that's nothing. A couple of years back, we had a FReeper who claimed to have an IQ of 170. This same FReeper lost a $40,000 civil case, countersued the State of Washington for $15 million for being in collusion with the winning side based solely on a "knowing look", and predictably lost every appeal. He then tried to make a citizens' arrest against state Supreme Court Justice CJ Alexander, on RICO charges for not hearing his final appeal.

Let's just say that IQ numbers aren't all they're cracked up to be.

[James C. Bennett]

True, but this was on the UK scale, different from the US scale.

[1010RD]

My experience is the higher the IQ the less stable, but that’s for very high IQ’s.