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| Topic: Four-Year-Old 'Genius' Accepted into Mensa | |
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UK - By the age of two, she could count to 40, draw pictures of people, recite poems and read books meant for seven-year-olds.
Within a year, she was adding and subtracting. Now she is four, Heidi Hankins has an IQ of 159 - only one point below Albert Einstein's - and has become one of the youngest members of Mensa. She took an IQ test after nursery staff struggled to find tasks to stretch her. And her parents Matthew, 47, a University of Southampton lecturer, and Sophy, 43, an artist, are hoping their daughter can skip a school year when she starts in September. Heidi sat a Wechsler IQ test, which uses puzzles to measure a child's intellectual potential. Dr Hankins said: 'We always thought Heidi was bright because she was reading early. I was curious about her IQ and the results were off the scale. 'I got her the complete set of the Oxford Reading Tree books when she was two and she read through the whole set of 30 in about an hour. It's what you would expect a seven-year-old to do. She was making noises and trying to talk literally since she was born and by age one her vocabulary was quite good. She was using full sentences almost as soon as she started to speak.' Dr Hankins said Heidi was drawing princesses and animals aged 14 months - an age when most children can only mark the page. And at 18 months the family found her using the computer to teach herself to read. Heidi is a head taller than her classmates, and at 3ft 10in is closer to an average six year old. The Hankins, from Winchester, Hampshire, also have a nine-year-old son, Isaac, who is a chorister at Winchester Cathedral. Dr Hankins said: 'Heidi has really flourished quicker than other children - academically, artistically and physically. 'We don't push Heidi at all. She has taken up everything herself and teaches herself. 'She is not precocious, she is just a little girl who likes her Barbies and Lego but then you will find her sitting down and reading a book.' The average adult IQ score is 100 while a 'gifted' score is 130. John Stevenage, chief executive of British Mensa, said: 'Heidi's parents correctly identified that she shows great potential.'  A little bit special: Four-year-old Heidi Hankins has an IQ of 159, just one point below Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein |
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Sloe00
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Sat 04/14/12 10:35 AM
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Wow
what a brain. i wonder what she`ll be like as an adult oops, repeated myself, lol |
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UK - By the age of two, she could count to 40, draw pictures of people, recite poems and read books meant for seven-year-olds. Within a year, she was adding and subtracting. Now she is four, Heidi Hankins has an IQ of 159 - only one point below Albert Einstein's - and has become one of the youngest members of Mensa. She took an IQ test after nursery staff struggled to find tasks to stretch her. And her parents Matthew, 47, a University of Southampton lecturer, and Sophy, 43, an artist, are hoping their daughter can skip a school year when she starts in September. Heidi sat a Wechsler IQ test, which uses puzzles to measure a child's intellectual potential. Wow what a brain. i wonder what she`ll be like as an adult Dr Hankins said: 'We always thought Heidi was bright because she was reading early. I was curious about her IQ and the results were off the scale. 'I got her the complete set of the Oxford Reading Tree books when she was two and she read through the whole set of 30 in about an hour. It's what you would expect a seven-year-old to do. She was making noises and trying to talk literally since she was born and by age one her vocabulary was quite good. She was using full sentences almost as soon as she started to speak.' Dr Hankins said Heidi was drawing princesses and animals aged 14 months - an age when most children can only mark the page. And at 18 months the family found her using the computer to teach herself to read. Heidi is a head taller than her classmates, and at 3ft 10in is closer to an average six year old. The Hankins, from Winchester, Hampshire, also have a nine-year-old son, Isaac, who is a chorister at Winchester Cathedral. Dr Hankins said: 'Heidi has really flourished quicker than other children - academically, artistically and physically. 'We don't push Heidi at all. She has taken up everything herself and teaches herself. 'She is not precocious, she is just a little girl who likes her Barbies and Lego but then you will find her sitting down and reading a book.' The average adult IQ score is 100 while a 'gifted' score is 130. John Stevenage, chief executive of British Mensa, said: 'Heidi's parents correctly identified that she shows great potential.' A little bit special: Four-year-old Heidi Hankins has an IQ of 159, just one point below Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein what a brain. i wonder what she`ll be like as an adult maybe sheldon, from big bang theory? |
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dang, that`s lost on me. i`m not a tv watcher
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dang, that`s lost on me. i`m not a tv watcher most kids that smart have problems, because of their brilliance. they are in a league of their own, and most everybody cannot understand them because of the level they are at. schooling, everyday people she will have to deal with, and people that can't understand her because she is levels above them. she can deal with it now, because she will have adults to help her, but when she turns 10 or so, she will way smarter than everyone else around her. that will be the problem, because how can people with less intelligence teach her? i hope she fares well, but they don't always... |
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I hope they have Mensa for kids in England. The social half of the person has to be nourished as well. That's where most highly intelligent people have their weakness. Also I think it's a lot harder for girls in general. There's still a lot of social pressure for women not to display their intelligence. I wish her the best of luck, she seems like a cute little thing.
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Knock knock... Sloe00... Knock knock... Sloe00... Knock knock... Sloe00... aka- A Sheldon intro!
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Hopefully she will do well. She sounds like she if off to a great start. As for this article mentioning gifted. I don't take too much stock in it. Most of my friends were in gifted and i wasn't. Most of them have no career. Most took some kind of art or humanity major. Art, acting, history, English, etc. While I went into engineering. Though I am not sure the gifted program I school is for IQ. I have been told its more about how you think and I believe is geared more towards people that use the arts side of the brain.
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Knock knock... Sloe00... Knock knock... Sloe00... Knock knock... Sloe00... aka- A Sheldon intro! lol.. i guess only those who watch BBT will get that... |
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dang, that`s lost on me. i`m not a tv watcher most kids that smart have problems, because of their brilliance. they are in a league of their own, and most everybody cannot understand them because of the level they are at. schooling, everyday people she will have to deal with, and people that can't understand her because she is levels above them. she can deal with it now, because she will have adults to help her, but when she turns 10 or so, she will way smarter than everyone else around her. that will be the problem, because how can people with less intelligence teach her? i hope she fares well, but they don't always... Thats the very first thing I thought, upon reading the headline. I felt sorry for her. Being that smart, compared to others, isn't really helpful. To what end? To accomplish things in the world other qualities matter more: discipline, passion, ambition, etc. To be happy in life, other qualities matter more: empathy, character, community, etc. Being that smart can just make it harder to function socially. Oh, and she may be in for a shocker when she realizes how stupid (comparatively) her parents are, or how stupid her teachers will be. It's not a bad time for brilliant people to be born. Thanks to the internet, she won't be held back as much by ignorant teachers. |
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I think part of 'intelligence' is social adaptability.
I think she will do fine as long as that is part of her education. |
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