A 6 yr old boy [with an IQ of over 160] becomes one of Mensa's youngest members. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/boy-genius-aged-6-joins-7376455 The boy has been learning pretty fast all his life. When he was one year old, he knew [all?] the colors. When he was 2, he could name all the countries on a map and by the time he was 4, he was taking Mensa tests.
Intriguing! I started taking the Mensa tests when I was 10, so he has me beat by a few years. Just playing, I'm mad dumb. Only scored a 128 and 134 on IQ tests. I really don't even know if that's all that great. I took them 18 years ago.
Last year a 12 year old girl scored 162 in a Mensa IQ test. It does appear that we have more geniuses in the world and these tests help identify who they are and the knowledge that they are gifted might compel them to do things others like them have done. Maybe we'll have some great inventions in a decade or two.
A bit like sports. In the last 40 years, we have gone to the far reaches of the world to find the strongest and fastest genetic freaks. This, along with technology (Maybe a little bit of drug use too) is why we are constantly breaking records when it seems impossible. It's curious to see these geniuses popping up in places that they do.
I didn't check out the link yet... but it does make me wonder if these are real Mensa tests or those fake things they have online? I've known a few people who scored way above what the fake tests call "genius" online but I happen to know it's a bit lower when they sit down with a real Mensa-sponsored testing event. I guess it goes back to that "don't believe much of what you see on the Internet" thing.
As someone trained to give the Stanford-Binet and a few other kinds of IQ test, the Mensa tests--especially the abbreviated ones--give pretty wild over-estimates. Even the full on in-person ones are... generous. That said, I am sure he's a bright kid. I don't see the point in Mensa myself, but people like different hobbies and social clubs, I guess.
Goodness, memorised the map when he was just two years old? Wow, seems like he was born a genius and nurtured like a genius as well. It's no wonder that he was able to score such a grade on the test. I hope he uses that big brain of his to better the humanity and the world. WE know just how much we need a genius like him to help uplift humanity these days.
