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.
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Intelligence goes multi-dimensionally way beyond any single numerical figure of merit.
She looks clean and articulate.
She’s fast at Sudoku, that’s all it means!
I always thought the E-man’s IQ was waay up there, like >200.
I mean 161 is high, but there are lots of them around. Relatively speaking.
If she is one in a million, with billions of peeps, it happens all the time.
Good looking, very accomplished and smart.
Hmmm. A blond hedy lamarr
She beat me by that much.
Studying architecture is a waste of her abilities.
Einstein’s ability was driven by how his brain was structure, not just IQ. There was an article recently on it — he had abnormal folds in certain areas of his brain tied to specific capabilities. I think the right way to look at Einstein is not as a genius but as a prodigy.
Genius is not always measurably by IQ. Richard Feynman’s was only 125 (determined in HS) and, though clearly a genius, he was always sensitive about his IQ.
Maybe she’ll be the one to design a space elevator.
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She’s up there too. It’s hard to find a distribution chart that goes that high. I did find one... according to which her frequency is about 3 in 100,000.
Not too shabby.
He made a perfect score on the math/physics part of the graduate exam for Princeton (IIRC, he was the only one to have ever done so at that point in history).
Correct. I believe IQ is meaningless with regard to Einstein. People with Einsteins genius are extremely rare.
When he first presented his General Theory of Relativity only a dozen or so people couldn't even understand it. He was a true rarity.
Art Vandelay. :)
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