Rory told The Sun: “Only a few of the questions were challenging and some were quite easy.
“When I first got the results I didn’t understand what it meant, but then I realised it was actually a brilliant result.”
The youngster, whose favourite subject is maths and wants to study at Oxford or Cambridge, said being clever felt good but he does not know what he wants to do when he is older.
Rocket scientist, Rory. That's what you want to be. The next Elon.
Hat tip: Splendid Isolation
That's the real-life Young Shelton!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope he gets some good advice about joining Mensa. It's a club for very bright people whose only achievement (mostly) is being bright. Famous for being famous in other words. My experience has been that really smart people don't need Mensa to validate them; the second tier smart ones do. I got an invite decades ago, met a few members and decided (at about his age) that I wasn't insecure enough to join. Still looks like a good call.
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DeleteI also got an invitation for a validation test decades ago. Arrived at the venue only to find that the MENSA representative had forgotten to bring the door key! Figured if that was typical of MENSA then I wouldn't bother, so went home and never returned!
DeleteReaders Digest had tests in the sixties. I always scored enough to Join. I never heard of the club,thought it was a joke. I didn't have time for messing around with a club anyway. Outside, riding the bike or running the bayou, football in a front yard,, I was busy being a kid. I still qualify, I'm just still not interested. Well, I just became a widower,,maybe it's time to look into it. I wonder where they meet.
ReplyDeletePhhht, can't even Look at it without a password.
Gotta join to know anything.
Gotta pass the bill to find out what is in it?
My Mom encouraged me to go to a Mensa convention and take the admission test. (It was fun; I've always enjoyed that kind of testing.) The attendees included every kind of geek / nerd stereotype you could imagine (though all the ones I met were nice, interesting people.) I'd worn a white dress shirt and trousers, and when I got home that night and got undressed for bed, I found that I was the victim of static cling: I always mixed whites and colors in the drier, and I had a black sock stuck to the inside of the back of my shirt. (Undoubtedly, it would have been visible through the thin cotton.) I saw that, pumped my fist, and yelled "YES! I'M IN!"
ReplyDeleteIf he is that smart joining Mensa (1 in 50) would be a huge mistake, they aren't his peers. If he does want to join a high IQ society there are more selective ones like Triple Nine Society (1 in 1,000) or Prometheus Society (1 in 30,000) available.
ReplyDeletesome people are just born with the gift of memory retention,
ReplyDeleteIQ tests determine memory of what is taught. real IQ is the ability to reason.
the bushmen of the Kalahari desert live in an environment devoid of surface water and very few resources. they don't know basic math. yet they have thrived and raise families for thousands of years. introduce an Albert Einstien or a fit Steven Hawkings into that environment and they would last, what, maybe 3 days? given that environment who has the highest IQ.
intelligence is subjective to the environment a person is subject to.
IQ tests to not test the ability to think or reason, outside the box, to reason problems. only to remember what has been told or taught to them in most cases. it's all about common sense.
You've got it exactly backwards. Bushmen have excellent memories - which is how they survive. They are absolutely terrible at abstract reasoning, having no hereditary use for such. And abstract reasoning is of little use for survival in a foreign and hostile environment.
DeleteModern IQ tests do actually test common sense, but only if you're too dumb to pass the reasoning intelligence portion. They even have hands-on tests for the illiterate and innumerate. The tests go all the way down to square peg/round hole toddler toys.
Hopefully this is the silliest thing I'll read today. Why, it's as if you have no brain at all.
DeleteSounds like Anony-boy took a real IQ test and got his fee-fees hurt when it showed he wasn't the genius his momma always told him he was...
DeleteMensa is the self-congratulations club for midwits.
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DeleteElon didn't invent anything, his father just bought the company for him.
ReplyDeleteEinstein never took an IQ test but his was estimated to be 160. I don't think you can say this kid, at 162, is any higher, given measurement error. He's certainly genius level though. (Generally accepted to be 140 or above.)
ReplyDeleteI hope his parents have a good understanding of child psychology because they'll need it. No one with a genius level IQ has normal social skills, and I speak from personal experience.
Absolutes are almost never right. "No one" overstates things a bit. While some very smart people may be socially awkward, others are quite adept socially. I worked in a very large (800+) medical group practice, the best of the best. Very few of the physicians were less than brilliant; most -not all- were well socialized and delightful people personally. There may have been a Mensa member or two, not many, and never discussed. The reputed social awkwardness of the highly intelligent is, I think, a compensation mechanism: it's unpleasant to realize that very bright people are successful in multiple areas of life.
DeleteI too scored off the charts at 14. Hogwash. IQ is a scam. Ain't no way I am more clever than Al.
ReplyDeleteHe's a white male in a country rapidly reverting to Turd World status, and in which he is already in the decided minority.
ReplyDeleteIf he's lucky, he'll GTFO the first chance he gets, and never look back.