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Title: 4-year-old with IQ of 145 becomes Mensa's newest member
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Published: Jul 30, 2013
Author: Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News
Post Date: 2013-07-30 20:41:58 by Tatarewicz
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Views: 903
Comments: 32

Anala Beevers is 4 and smarter than you.

Anala — who learned the alphabet when she was only 4 months old, her parents say — has an IQ over 145. The New Orleans toddler recently was invited to join Mensa, the high-IQ society for people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on the standardized intelligence test. Anala is in the 99th percentile.

Anala loves geography, knows the location of every U.S. state and the names of their capitals. She even carries a map of America everywhere she goes.

"She needs a reality show," her father, Landon Beevers, told People magazine. "She keeps us on our toes."

She also knows she's smart.

"Really smart," Anala says.

Her mother, Sabrina Beevers, says Anala is constantly correcting the family's grammar.

"She's a handful," Landon Beevers said. "I'll tell you, she's a handful."

Anala is not the youngest Mensa member. In June, Adam Kirby, a 2-year-old from London, became the youngest boy ever to join Mensa, according to the Digital Journal. Emmelyn Roettger, a 2-year-old from Washington, D.C., joined last year, becoming the youngest U.S. member.

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#5. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

One of the chief characteristics of Mensa members is that most of them don't stay members very long. Getting in is proof of high IQ .... and IQ stays high even if you don't keep paying the annual dues. Most members realize that they remain intelligent even after they decide that it's stupid to keep paying $70 a year for an organization that mostly schedules cocktail parties on a weekly basis. Average duration of membership is slightly more than two years.

As for child members, unless a parent is also a member and enjoys Mensa activities, the parents often make a firm decision to pull the kid out, sometimes even before the end of the first year. Having a high IQ is not a guarantee that an adult is a fit companion for a child.

Having a high IQ is also not a guarantee that one is honest, reliable, or even well-balanced; Mensa has plenty of examples to prove that.

Shoonra  posted on  2013-07-31   1:18:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Shoonra (#5)

Cough it up, Shoon.

You and I both know IQ tests are not a reliable gauge of genius unless administered to a child who can read very well - ie minimum grade 3.

Anyone unable (due to age) to take an IQ test, but can memorize some things, is given a guesstimate label of "genius". Her being invited to join Mensa - seriously? - well no surprise there considering Obamanation.

No doubt this little girl seems quite bright but at this age to call her a genius is a stretch. Give her a proper IQ test at age 8 or 9 and then we'll talk labels.

scrapper2  posted on  2013-07-31   4:32:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: scrapper2 (#8)

Give her a proper IQ test at age 8 or 9 and then we'll talk labels.

I was given an IQ test when I was 7 because the teacher thought I was "too slow" for her class. According to teacher, I couldn't read worth a damn in the classroom but at home I read my mom's medical books on the weekends and could even pronounce the words and spell. The results from that supposedly "IQ" test revealed it to be 120. I wound up changing schools because the teacher not only abused me physically but also tried to send me to some school for slow children. It is very difficult when teachers put labels on your kids because your kids have to live with that for the rest of their lives. And some of those kids are indeed geniuses. It is why I hated school. I loved to read though. But I really hated school the atmosphere and the teachers!

purplerose  posted on  2013-07-31   15:11:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: purplerose, scrapper2, abraxas (#10)

It is very difficult when teachers put labels on your kids because your kids have to live with that for the rest of their lives. And some of those kids are indeed geniuses. It is why I hated school. I loved to read though. But I really hated school the atmosphere and the teachers!

I've spoken of this before myself. What you say is true. The Publik Skools, with exceptions, do not like exceptionally bright students - they make for more work, and teachers (some, not all) do not like having to deal with students brighter than they are. I was lucky with my teachers. My sister was not. For some reason the schools seemed more willing to accept boys with a high I.Q. but not girls - at least at the Grade School level. Nowadays boys who are precocious are drugged with Ritalin and Adderol so that they vill be kompliant und set in there seats und not bothher der teacher or der State.

Einstein had a few choice comments on the subject. He was, early on, treated as though he was feeble minded because he didn't fit and, in terms of I.Q., his teachers misread his exceptional intelligence as exceptional stupidity.

Original_Intent  posted on  2013-07-31   15:28:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Original_Intent (#11)

The Publik Skools, with exceptions, do not like exceptionally bright students - they make for more work, and teachers (some, not all) do not like having to deal with students brighter than they are.

That's exactly what my problem was! You nailed it. And most of the teachers I dealt with were women and they were really nasty. I never had those problems with men teachers at all.

purplerose  posted on  2013-07-31   15:50:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: purplerose (#14)

Except for the coaches, most male teachers I had were fruitcakes.

Lod  posted on  2013-07-31   15:52:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Lod (#15)

I never excelled in sports. As a matter of fact, I dreaded going to P.E. class. But I loved to read but I liked reading what adults were reading. And although I did poorly in mathematics, somehow I craved the challenge of it (especially calculus).

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#17. To: purplerose (#16)

Reading with comprehension is really the key to everything; after taking a gentleman's C in solid, I bailed on math.

Entering the 9th grade, I somehow was placed in a typing class instead of athletics (with said fruitcake teacher); in hindsight, it was the best thing that could have happened, after discovering the joys of the internet.

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#18. To: purplerose, Lod (#16)

Robert Heinlein, whose undergraduate degree was in Astronomy, was a math bug. He commented that you cannot really consider yourself educated unless you have had math at least through elemenatary calculus. That is why I persevered on into higher math. It just bugged me. Since I was not cut out for the academic life, but loved learning, I taught myself. (Although, I did take College Calculus.)

Just as a side note - the other reason I did not care for Mensa is that I try not to be a snob even though I love conversing with intelligent people, and I am not into the mental masturbation of "puzzles" and "brain teasers". I like solving problems, but in the real world. I loved Symbolic Logic though, but that is puzzle solving with practical applications - like beating up on low level shills. :-)

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