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Two-year-old with same IQ as Einstein

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kateoplis:

Oscar Wrigley, a two-year-old with the same IQ as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, has become the youngest boy in Britain to be accepted into Mensa. He has been ranked in the 99.99th percentile of the population and has been ranked off the scale as the Stanford-Binet test cannot measure higher than 160.

Oscar’s father Joe, 29, an IT specialist from Reading in Berkshire, said: “Oscar was recently telling my wife about the reproductive cycle of penguins. I’m fully expecting the day to come when he turns around and tells me I’m an idiot.”

Except IQ has very little to do with practical intelligence in the long run. You should all read Outliers.

10/12/09 at 8:25pm
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    i just wonder how they test young kids like this, can i be tested too?
  4. 93diagonalley reblogged this from sugarspun and added:
    mensa people scare me
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    delayprocrastinate:yewknee:kateoplis:
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  13. indianjesus reblogged this from 102828 and added:
    I have read the Outliers, and I to agree with Alec. Intelligence is necessary but there is a point of smart enough....
  14. 102828 reblogged this from yewknee and added:
    Except IQ has very little to do with practical intelligence in the long run. You should all read Outliers.
  15. ninyako reblogged this from failurebydsgn and added:
    Oscar Wrigley, a two-year-old with the same IQ as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, has become the youngest boy in...
  16. jmek reblogged this from failurebydsgn and added:
    delayprocrastinate:yewknee:kateoplis: Oscar Wrigley, a two-year-old with the same IQ as Albert Einstein and Stephen...
  17. ichliebe reblogged this from delayprocrastinate and added:
    Omg, look at the offsprings of IT specialist.. hahahaha. Amazing!
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    yewknee:kateoplis:
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    key quote here is:
  24. samflower reblogged this from kateoplis and added:
    oh come on, that takes ALL
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