The Internet was abuzz this week more than a 12-year-old British girl who has an IQ that is supposedly greater than that of both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Many outlets published stories on Nicole Barr’s very brain, including the U.K.’s Western Daily Press and Reflection, as well as Yahoo Cosmopolitan and Parents magazine. And most of them indicated she is smarter than the famed scientists.
Barr’s score of 162 puts her in the top 1 percent of the population, Ann Clarkson, a communications supervisor for United kingdom Mensa, told Yahoo.
Einstein and Hawking are believed to have IQs of 160. Kids, like Barr, who rating higher tend to be compared to them and tales about children being “smarter than Einstein” pop-up with some regularity.
But there’s one problem that the geniuses put together can’t solve - it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to say what Einstein or Hawking’s IQs are, Clarkson told The Huffington Post within an email.
“There is, so far as anyone knows, no evidence that Einstein ever took an IQ test,” Clarkson said. “I think Hawking probably has, only if as part of his treatment for motor neurone disease, but it appears he has never made the rating public.”
Clarkson said the 160 amount is a regularly quoted “guess” that “opens up a whole different issue about the difference between IQ and genius.”
So if anyone tells you they’re smarter than Einstein, inform them it’s a matter of relativity.
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