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Tara Sharifi, a student at Aylesbury High School, recently took the Mensa IQ test in Oxford where she scored well above the “genius benchmark” of 140. The 11-year-old student scored 162 points on the test, which is two points ahead of Einstein, a theoretical physicist who is considered as one of the two pillars of modern physics, and famous cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking.

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TheoryNumber3 8 Sep 27
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Here's hoping the 'adults' in the room don't f up the kid too much. She needs all the emotional and empathic support she can get.
Live well and prosper.

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That's fantastic! I hope her intelligence serves her (and humanity) well for many decades to come.

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If/when children are tested for their IQ, the results should not be shared with the public. What is the point of doing so? It puts undue expectations on them.

I find it interesting that when it is pointed out that children--or adults--have a higher IQ scores than Einstein as he never took an IQ test and his score is "estimated." Somehow, despite not being identified early as being a genius as a child, he excelled in the field of physics.

On the other hand, Marilyn vos Savant, who has the highest recorded IQ, is a "columnist." I cannot find any evidence where she contributed anything as did Einstein and Hawking. Most people know who Einstein is even if the are not aware of the content of his contributions to science. Hawking is also very well known. How many know vos Savant?

I remember when two of my friends almost got into an argument about who was the smartest when one posted her IQ on my Facebook page. Apparently, she had been tested before she could read! The other person contested this and they exchanged some curt words. Ironically, neither of them did diddley with their above average brains (per their claims) and had boring jobs which did not pay well.

I hope that this young lady can utilize her intelligence to do something beneficial for humankind.

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Wishing her all the best....it can't be easy to interact with her fellow 11-year-old classmates.

Yeah she probably doesn't have much opportunity to be a little girl.

I just rethought my answer here and wanted to add that how she interacts with her peers is probably going to be a direct result of how adults interact with her. If adults convince her that she's smarter/better than her classmates, that will change her attitude towards them. If adults tout her achievements to other kids, that will change their attitude towards her.

Adults F up everything

@TheoryNumber3 Yeah, telling kids that they’re smart or clever often doesn’t end well.

Better to say that they worked hard or did something well.

My nephew was continually told that he was clever, he never applied his considerable intellect at university. Because he didn’t focus on his studies like his mates, took years to complete his undergraduate degree.

@Zealandia Sounds like bad parenting, doesn't it?

@pamagain I think the people involved perceived that they were being positive and didn’t realise the implications of how the message was being interpreted.

I only made the connection about the impact when my nephew was a lot older. Too late by then.

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