Girl with IQ of 161: Essex teenager's IQ is higher than Albert Einstein's

upi.com ^ | 2/12/2013 | blog staff

[UnwashedPeasant]

A 16-year-old girl from Essex stunned teachers by scoring 161 on her IQ test, more than Bill Gates and even Albert Einstein, SWNS reported.

Lauren Marbe, the teenager who enjoys fake tanning and manicures, is very proud of her high score, especially because it contradicts all the stigmas associated with being blonde.

"My teachers knew I was quite clever because of my grades but they had always thought I was blonde and a bit ditzy," she told SWNS. "Now they keep saying 'I didn't realize you were that clever'."

Marbe is a pupil at Roding Valley High School in Loughton, Essex where she is a straight A and A* student. Though she ultimately dreams of being a performer in the West End, if she decides to go to college after high school, she plans on studying architecture at the University of Cambridge.

The teenage prodigy is also a gifted singer, she performed in the West End for two years as part of the chorus for Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash-hit Joseph.

[TexasCajun]

Looks like a young Paris Hilton.

Poor Paris, if only she had a brain.

[Vendome]

Doesn’t mean she’s smart....

[Vendome]

Relativity speaking....

[SMARTY]

I hope she doesn’t get any ‘tramp stamps’! THAT would ruin everything!

[Blood of Tyrants]

That would require the talents of a structural engineer. I look at the job of an architect to be to make the structure aesthetically pleasing.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It is the verdict of this court that she is NOT GUILTY! Brains and beauty, a British Ann Coulter. Now buy her a steak and kidney pie and a pint.

[Buckeye McFrog]

lemme guess....she wants to be a Pop Star

[Erik Latranyi]

In today’s connected world, she will be under tremendous pressure to “succeed” at something.

Previous geniuses never had such stress.

[litehaus]

Was one really fine fella my old memory chip tells me,,,,

[bgill]

She’s still not smart enough to understand IQ has nothing to do with being ditzy.

[Bobalu]

From Wikipedia --Frequent references have been made to Jayne Mansfield's very high IQ, which she claimed was 163. She spoke five languages, including English, fluent French and Spanish, German learned in high school, and studied Italian in 1963. Reputed to be Hollywood's "smartest dumb blonde", she would later complain that the public did not care about her brains. "They're more interested in 40–21–35", she said

[doorgunner69]

Hmmm. A blond hedy lamarr

That's Hedley!

[al baby]

She aint as smart as the one

[Rich21IE]

A future in England is a waste of her talents.

[goat granny]

Years back they had several different IQ tests and each was scored slightly different. I don’t know if its still that way or not.

[righttackle44]

Possibly a waste of her abilities, but probably not a waste of her interests. I used to have a resume writing business. You would not believe the number of highly educated, bright, smart, vastly intelligent people who absolutely hate their jobs.

I cannot tell you how many professionals I had for clients who told me that they should have gone ahead and become teachers like they had wanted, or gone into music, taught art, should have opened the little cafe, book store, music store they thought about or had a chance to. On the other hand, I never had a professional musician--I mean a classically trained professional, not a caterwallering idiot--who wanted to change professions.(Had two who wanted additional income.)

So bless her heart and her ambitions. I hope she succeeds.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Oh, Laz!

We all know the drill, but just in case you missed it.

[Hot Tabasco]

My nephew is pretty smart, well kinda, and is now a thorasic surgeon here in S.E. Michigan and got his Fellowship from Harvard.

He's not a genius, he merely had the desire and drive to really study hard, at the exclusion of everything else kids his age took advantage of.

Oddly enough, following his graduation from Williams College in Massachusettes, he was forced to take a year off before his admittance into U. of M. Medical school, so he went to Europe to play hockey and was offered an opportunity to play in the NHL..........(He made all-state defenseman in his senior year when his team won the state championship and played for Williams...)

[RoosterRedux]

She’s still not smart enough to understand IQ has nothing to do with being ditzy

She'll learn.

Einstein was a real airhead...often stopping people he would encounter walking home after work at Princeton and asking, "Do you know me? Do you know where do I live?"

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

When he first presented his General Theory of Relativity only a dozen or so people couldn't even understand it.

That is a misconception that even Einstein fought his entire life. It was largely based on a misreported story by the New York Times. Arthur Eddington, the British physicist who attempted to use the eclipse of 1919 to verify General Relativity, took advantage of this misconception. According to Eddington, after he presented his results to the Royal Society a member of audience approached him, saying, "I understand that there are only three people in the entire world who understand this relativity business." Eddington stood speechless for a moment, and his inquistor insisted, "Now, don't be so modest, man!" Eddington snapped out of reverie and replied, "No, I'm just trying to think of who the third one might be!"

Eddington retold that tale at high tea in Oxford for decades.

Einstein's son, who became a professor of civil engineering at Caltech, insisted that his father's distinguishing trait (a lot like Richard Feymann) was his absolute refusal to take anyone's word for anything. He would not accept something until he had thought it through for himself.