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Four Year Old Has The Same IQ As Einstein
Four Year Old Has The Same IQ As Einstein
Barnsley, England – Little Sherwyn Sarabi has just joined the ranks of Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawkings, and Bill Gates; he has maxed out the IQ test with a score of 160. The child began speaking at the age of ten months. Another ten months later he was speaking in complete sentences. By his second birthday four months later, he had memorized every country on the planet. Now, at age four, he has the periodic table of elements memorized and has read 190 books.
He began attending the Rastrick School in Huddersfield at the age of three, two full years ahead of his peers. However, his curriculum one year later is that of an 8th & 9th grade student. His has a fabulous command of the English language and amazes his instructor. Despite being only four-years-old, he is mentally and socially on par with a 9-year-old child. His instructors say he is able to reason quite well and continues to grow in his aptitude.
“He is a very happy healthy child and loves to talk,” Sherwyn’s mother, Amanda said. She said Sherwyn has read over 190 books and his favourite is the encyclopedia as he loves learning new things.
His educational psychologist Dr Peter Congdon deals with gifted children, but says Sarabi is on a completely different level. The child is also happy and socially adapted which is not something all gifted children experience. He constantly asks questions of his instructor who finds himself having to sharpen his wits to keep up with the lad.
Congdon told the Daily Mail: ‘Sherwyn has a very superior level of intelligence, he is incredibly gifted and his vocabulary is out of this world.
‘His intellect reaches the highest possible levels of reason and when he talks to you he has the social skills of a much older child.’
He added: ‘It is very unusual for a child to have this type of intelligence, he came out at the very top on the tests.
‘I specialise in specially gifted children but when I tested Sherwyn I knew I had come across something very special.’
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), developed by American psychologist David Wechsler, is an individually administered intelligence test that can be completed without reading or writing.
How does Sherwyn Sarabi compare to other notable geniuses?
Here is a list of individuals with the highest IQ as well as other popular prodigies:
| Name | Score | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Abdesselam Jelloul | 198 | Scored in a 2012 test including 13 dimensions of intelligence. |
| William J. Sidis | 197 | Child prodigy with exceptional mathematical & linguistic abilities. |
| Christopher Langan | 195 | Called “the smartest man in America”. |
| Garry Kasparov | 190 | Chess grandmaster, writer and political activist. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ~190 | A genius polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, scientist… |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | 190 | Philosopher primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics… |
| Sir Isaac Newton | ~190 | Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist… |
| Bobby Fischer | 187 | A chess Grandmaster and a child prodigy. |
| Marilyn vos Savant | 185 | Magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright. |
| Kim Ung-Yong | 170 | Korean civil engineer and former child prodigy. |
| Albert Einstein | 160 | Theoretical physicist (the general theory of relativity). |
| Akrit Jaswal | 146 | Child prodigy who performed his first surgery at the age of 7. |
| Grigori Y. Perelman | ? | Solved the Poincaré conjecture. |
On The Web:
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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/yearold-boy-with-einsteins-iq-starts-school-two-years-early/story-fnet08ui-1226783802076
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2523173/Boy-4-IQ-Einstein-Bill-Gates-Stephen-Hawking.html