Posted on 02/13/2013 12:30:20 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
BTW, UnPeas:
Is this Essex Ohio?
Essex-on-buggery in Jolly Old England?
he had abnormal folds in certain areas of his brain tied to specific capabilities
Do you think that has to do with folded space and time the info can flow better ?
That's 'Headly!'
I agree with you, I believe the term "genius" is used much too frequently. The true geniuses ARE the Einsteins and mathematicians or the physicists and scientists of the world whose discoveries are off the scale in terms of what other people with similar IQ's can accomplish.
In two years, sure.
wait until she discoveres booze
A man with ethics. My normally high regard for you has incerased!
Too bad American voters aren't like that.
:: wait until she discoveres booze ::
Hah! True, that.
Ol’ Cletus is still struggling with his Bacardi IQ: 151 (proof).
Healthy skepticism, and reserved judgment are lost virtues.
According to this course, Einstein had an IQ of “only” 160:
http://mostextreme.org/highest_iq.php
but, according to the same source, IQ tests are not reliable for very high IQs. So, the difference between Einstein and, say, Hawking at 200 is probably not meaningful.
Other uber IQs are inferred from child IQ tests extrapolated into adult IQs, which only give tendencies and are not reliable in individual cases; or, are inferred from writing samples and so forth.
Even with all the qualifiers I just listed, the score achieved by this girl is remarkable, and we should hope that she is will be able to develop her potential and enjoy a happy and productive life.
Jayne Mansfield was decapitated in a car accident because she was too dumb to wear her seat belt.
Smart people do dumb things. You heard it here first.
125 is plenty high. Jack Kennedy had an IQ of 119 (though liberal psychologists infer a higher IQ for him based on analysis of “his” writings and speeches that we now know were written for him).
125 is plenty high. Jack Kennedy had an IQ of 119 (though liberal psychologists infer a higher IQ for him based on analysis of “his” writings and speeches that we now know were written for him).
She is piker when compared to Marilyn Vos Savant who has been rated from 190 to 228.
BFD. I have five daughters. 141; 144; 151 and the other two are very smart.
I really question the validity of that statement. But I'll keep my doubts to myself.
I don’t think the word CLEVER quite describes a person with an IQ of 161.
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