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Girl, 12, beats Einstein and Stephen Hawking to get top score in IQ test
- eugeneionesco 11y agoThat just proves how useless the test is.
- chroma 11y agoCattell III B measures english vocabulary, not raw cognitive horsepower. I've no doubt this girl is extremely smart, but the test she took can be gamed rather easily. As the article mentions, two other children aced the same test. I'd be much more interested to see the results of Raven's Progressive Matrices. One more thing: I'm pretty sure this article is a submarine[1] for a TV show about child geniuses. 1. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html