{"id":281284,"date":"2016-12-30T14:51:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T19:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281284"},"modified":"2020-10-28T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:00:54","slug":"12-year-old-british-gypsy-has-a-higher-iq-than-stephen-hawking-and-albert-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/12-year-old-british-gypsy-has-a-higher-iq-than-stephen-hawking-and-albert-einstein\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old British Gypsy has a higher IQ than Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And I am sure this genius suffers every day from dumb adults who tell her how to behave and what to do; because even if she is a genius, she doesn\u2019t have their \u201cmaturity\u201d\u2026 Like Georges Brassens sings: an idiot is an idiot, whether he is a teenager or an old man\u2026 The age of the majority should not be about the number of years but the intelligence level. Why an 18-year-old idiot can be independent and manage his life the way he wishes, and a 12-year-old genius cannot? That makes a very stupid planet.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n

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The 12-year-old daughter of migrant Roma workers in England is raising the bar on human intelligence.<\/p>\n

Nicole Barr of Essex aced her IQ test with a perfect 162 score, outsmarting such noted geniuses as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.<\/p>\n

The score places Nicole among the top 1% of the population. The average IQ score for adults is 100, and anything higher than 140 is considered genius level.<\/p>\n

“When I found out I got such a high score, it was so unexpected,” Nicole told the Western Daily. “I was so shocked.”<\/p>\n

She took the Mensa IQ test with her father James Barr, 36, who had a hunch she’d be accepted into the illustrious society, for intellects who score in the 98th percentile.<\/p>\n

“She’s always loved numbers and puzzles, and she’s always been excellent at math, performing several years ahead of her age group in school,” Barr told Yahoo Parenting. “She likes challenging herself.”<\/p>\n

Nicole lives in a Gypsy caravan with her father and baby half-sister. The proud father said her academic achievement has been the talk of the community, also known as Roma.<\/p>\n

“It’s nice for us to be in the news for something good for a change,” Barr said. “This shows that it doesn’t matter where you come from, anyone can be academically brilliant.”<\/p>\n

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She was always more academically mature than her fellow peers in elementary school and she could calculate complex algebra before she was 10.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The preteen attends Burnt Mill Academy in Harlow, where she acts in school plays and aspires to be a doctor one day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Nicole is a brilliant pupil,” said Helena Mills, head of Burnt Mill Academy. “She works incredibly hard and has thrown herself into many different activities in her first year with us.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Only 110,000 members worldwide have been accepted into the exclusive Mensa society; 20,000 are from the British Isles, 35% of its members are female and only 8% are younger than 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Only children can get a score higher than 161, because that is the maximum IQ score for an adult. The test is age-adjusted for children,” said Ann Clarkson, a Mensa spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mensa said child geniuses are academically mature for their age, well-versed in a particular subject, have an incredible memory and prefer spending time with older people.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/twelve-year-old-gypsy-proves-smarter-einstein-article-1.2316644<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: And I am sure this genius suffers every day from dumb adults who tell her how to behave and what to do; because even if she is a genius, she doesn\u2019t have their \u201cmaturity\u201d\u2026 Like Georges Brassens sings: an idiot is an idiot, whether he is a teenager or an old man\u2026 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}