Albert Einstein has been said to be the smartest person who has ever lived, but it appears that an 11-year-old girl in Britain has a higher IQ than him.
11-year-old Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell has scored 162-the maximum result on a Mensa IQ test. The results technically make her smarter than Einstein or Stephen Hawking, whose IQ scores measure both at 160.
Cerys had taken the IQ test with 45-year-old father, Dean, who is a lawyer. They had meant to take it together as a little joke, with Cerys hoping to beat her father's score of 145.
Dean had at first thought that Cerys had bluffed her way through the test after finishing it so quickly, but was shocked, and thrilled, of the results.
"I was expecting her IQ to be upwards of 145, there's no doubt about that, but to actually hit the maximum it was a surprise. We're all really excited and proud of her," Dean said of his daughter's IQ exam results.
"When I was applying to Mensa he said oh I'm already in Mensa, Cerys, he was like showing off a bit, so it's good that I got my own back on him,' 11-year-old Cerys told reporters.
Cerys has been somewhat indifferent with people comparing her to intellectual greats. She says that "you can't really judge someone based on their potential," adding that, being 11, she does not have 'intellectual' conversations with her friends. "To be honest, there is more to a person than their IQ," the well-adjusted 11-year-old quips, saying that she will have enough intellectual discursions when she is past 20, but will focus on fashion, friends and having fun for now.
Cerys has said that she liked working with numbers, and hopes to work at a bank someday.
The 11-year-old has recently toppled the record of another under-18 girl who had taken an IQ exam and later revealed to be smarter than Einstein. Lauren Marble, 16, from Essex, has shattered the Essex stereotype of a dim blonde after scoring 161 on an IQ test-just one point behind 11-year-old Cerys.
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