• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

2 year old becomes youngest member of MENSA

Elise Tan Roberts can name 35 capital cities and identify the three types of triangle. The toddler, from Edmonton in North London, can already spell her name aloud, read the words ?mummy? and ?daddy? and recite the alphabet.
Click to expand...

I can do all that stuff too!! Do I get to be in mensa?
 
Hmm pretty sure I was reciting the alphabet by 18-24 months. I'll have to check my baby book. Does this mean I should be part of Mensa? Well probably not because I can figure out how to turn on a computer(inside joke, every mensa member I have known cant do the most basic functions in life).

 
Originally posted by: ggnl
Elise Tan Roberts can name 35 capital cities and identify the three types of triangle. The toddler, from Edmonton in North London, can already spell her name aloud, read the words ?mummy? and ?daddy? and recite the alphabet.
Click to expand...

I can do all that stuff too!! Do I get to be in mensa?
Click to expand...

It's not as notable for a nine year old.
 
funny at the comments....people if you are going to comment on a topic like this (speaking about the newspaper one's) fucking understand what an IQ test is about...

Anyway, I am curious about MENSA allowing for this exception...also if it will prove out that IQ doesn't change over time.

It's usually important also to include which test one is refering to when giving a score. A 140 can be genius on one test but so-so on another.
 
Originally posted by: Genx87
Hmm pretty sure I was reciting the alphabet by 18-24 months. I'll have to check my baby book. Does this mean I should be part of Mensa? Well probably not because I can figure out how to turn on a computer(inside joke, every mensa member I have known cant do the most basic functions in life).
Click to expand...

Most that know members of mensa actually know people that claim to be part of it.
 
Originally posted by: Genx87
Hmm pretty sure I was reciting the alphabet by 18-24 months. I'll have to check my baby book. Does this mean I should be part of Mensa?
Click to expand...
I think they deduction points for being a member of this forum.

Sorry.
 
The alphabet crap and capitals is not what makes her a genius....

The child is in the top 0.2 per cent for her age, according to Professor Joan Freeman, the child psychologist who used the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale to test Elise.
Click to expand...

Also I seriously would not go on what your parent's may have claimed you did as a child. Anyone that's an adult knows how parent's can paint a very fictional past for their little retards.
 
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Genx87
Hmm pretty sure I was reciting the alphabet by 18-24 months. I'll have to check my baby book. Does this mean I should be part of Mensa? Well probably not because I can figure out how to turn on a computer(inside joke, every mensa member I have known cant do the most basic functions in life).
Click to expand...

Most that know members of mensa actually know people that claim to be part of it.
Click to expand...

I saw the plaques.

btw having a major case of deja vu
 
Originally posted by: dainthomas
Originally posted by: ggnl
Elise Tan Roberts can name 35 capital cities and identify the three types of triangle. The toddler, from Edmonton in North London, can already spell her name aloud, read the words ?mummy? and ?daddy? and recite the alphabet.
Click to expand...

I can do all that stuff too!! Do I get to be in mensa?
Click to expand...

It's not as notable for a nine year old.
Click to expand...

ha 😀
 
Do Mensa members get access to a private bathroom or something?
If so, I may just stop aiming for Lifer status on AnandTech 😱
 
Originally posted by: Genx87
Well probably not because I can figure out how to turn on a computer(inside joke, every mensa member I have known cant do the most basic functions in life).
Click to expand...

That's because such mundane tasks are above their intellectual level, so they'd rather not waste the neutrinos even pondering it 😛.
 
Wow...

It's not till the age of 7 that ones IQ usually stabilizes (as to get reliable data). An IQ test at age two is highly suspect and unreliable at best...

(Psychology: Eighth Edition In Modules by David Myers) <-Source. Brand spankin new textbook that I had to pay for in full 🙁.
 
Originally posted by: Genx87
Hmm pretty sure I was reciting the alphabet by 18-24 months. I'll have to check my baby book. Does this mean I should be part of Mensa? Well probably not because I can figure out how to turn on a computer(inside joke, every mensa member I have known cant do the most basic functions in life).
Click to expand...

I'm not supposed to tell you this, but highly intelligent people use tricks to get stupid people to do stuff for them, including pretending they don't know how to do things.
 
Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Memorizing random facts is easy for a toddler. Methinks her IQ is destined to plummet 😛
Click to expand...

Exactly my thoughts. Having a good memory doesn't mean you are able to reason with all this stuff you can remember.

For example, you could teach a bird to name all the parts of a car engine. (just like somebody naming the alphabet).. but if the engine breaks can the bird know how to fix it?


And, isn't this quite normal for a very very young child? All of the memory neurons or whatever they are called are pretty much 'empty' at this age. Young children learn more in their first 5 years than their entire lifetime.

Watch, at age 5 the child will have a speech impedament.
I'm just saying...
 
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: Genx87
Hmm pretty sure I was reciting the alphabet by 18-24 months. I'll have to check my baby book. Does this mean I should be part of Mensa?
Click to expand...
I think they deduction points for being a member of this forum.

Sorry.
Click to expand...

And you're not helping things at all, buddy!
 
Originally posted by: Kalmah
Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Memorizing random facts is easy for a toddler. Methinks her IQ is destined to plummet 😛
Click to expand...

Exactly my thoughts. Having a good memory doesn't mean you are able to reason with all this stuff you can remember.

For example, you could teach a bird to name all the parts of a car engine. (just like somebody naming the alphabet).. but if the engine breaks can the bird know how to fix it?


And, isn't this quite normal for a very very young child? All of the memory neurons or whatever they are called are pretty much 'empty' at this age. Young children learn more in their first 5 years than their entire lifetime.

Watch, at age 5 the child will have a speech impedament.
I'm just saying...
Click to expand...

The examples used in the article are not very good proof of intelligence, but she was given an IQ test -"...and welcomed Elise based on a standard intelligence measure." IQ tests are pretty much all reasoning...
 
The child is in the top 0.2 percent for her age, according to Professor Joan Freeman, the child psychologist who used the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale to test Elise.
Click to expand...


Then why isn't the other .2% with the higher IQ accepted into Mensa and got a news article out of it? 😕
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Genx87
Hmm pretty sure I was reciting the alphabet by 18-24 months. I'll have to check my baby book. Does this mean I should be part of Mensa? Well probably not because I can figure out how to turn on a computer(inside joke, every mensa member I have known cant do the most basic functions in life).
Click to expand...

I'm not supposed to tell you this, but highly intelligent people use tricks to get stupid people to do stuff for them, including pretending they don't know how to do things.
Click to expand...

I am sure they do but highly doubt it includes making themselves look dumb as a bag of bricks by not knowing the button labeled power is how one turns on the power.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top