Two Year Old with same I.Q. as Einstein

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Oscar Wrigley, a two-year-old with the same IQ as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, has become the youngest boy in Britain to be accepted into Mensa.

Assessors at the Gifted Children's Information Centre in Solihull said Oscar, with an IQ of at least 160, is one of the brightest children they have ever come across.

He has been ranked in the 99.99th percentile of the population and has been ranked off the scale as the Stanford-Binet test cannot measure higher than 160.

Oscar's father Joe, 29, an IT specialist from Reading in Berkshire, said: "Oscar was recently telling my wife about the reproductive cycle of penguins.

"He is always asking questions. Every parent likes to think their child was special but we knew there was something particularly remarkable about Oscar.

"I'm fully expecting the day to come when he turns around and tells me I'm an idiot."

Mother Hannah, 26, told The Daily Mail: "He amazes everyone. We knew at 12 weeks he was extremely bright. He was unusually alert."

Mrs Wrigley, a housewife, added: "His vocabulary is amazing. He's able to construct complex sentences.

"The other day he said to me, 'Mummy, sausages are like a party in my mouth'."

Dr Peter Congdon, who assessed Oscar, said he was a "child of very superior intelligence".

"His abilities fall well within the range sometimes referred to as intellectually gifted. He demonstrated outstanding ability," he said.

John Stevenage, Mensa's Chief Executive confirmed Oscar had been accepted aged two years, five months and 11 days.

"Oscar shows great potential. Converting that potential to achievement is the challenge for his parents and we are delighted that they have chosen to join the Mensa network for support", he said.

The youngest British child to join Mensa is Elise Tan Roberts, from Edmonton, North London, at two years, four months and 14 days, with an IQ of 156.

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Smart kid.

[Jonesy]

Sausages are like a party in my mouth?

God that's win.

And yeah, incredibly smart child.

[Zylos]

Eventually the kid will be smart enough to figure out why people are laughing at him when he says sausages are like a party in my mouth. And because it had to be done...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5m5SzM7L2s[/yt]

[EvilM00s]

Damn. Just... damn.

[Moss.]

How exactly do they test for that kind of thing? Give him calculus equations to solve? How could he possibly know so much information so young?

Or is it, like, a metaphorical kind of test? Like answering a question in a certain way is LIKENED to knowing ... a lot ... about a lot of things?

I don't get it. Or really believe it...

[Grafikal]

I don't get it either. I can't even imagine a two year old telling his parents about random penguin sex either. But apparently it happens.

Oscar's father Joe, 29, an IT specialist from Reading in Berkshire, said: "Oscar was recently telling my wife about the reproductive cycle of penguins.

[Kokowam]

How exactly do they test for that kind of thing? Give him calculus equations to solve? How could he possibly know so much information so young?

Or is it, like, a metaphorical kind of test? Like answering a question in a certain way is LIKENED to knowing ... a lot ... about a lot of things?

I don't get it. Or really believe it...

I think they see their age and then give a test that's suited for the age group. I remember in an episode of the "Simpsons," they had Maggie take an IQ test and it asked basic things like addition and words and stuff. Kind of a bad example seeing as the "Simpsons" is a joke show, but it seems most likely that that's the answer.

@Kuja: Maybe intercourse alerts the stork to bring the babies to the penguins.

[Grafikal]

I doubt that's what the father meant when he said "reproductive cycle".

[joy]

I figure the kid warched march of the penguins or something and was talking about how the males sit on the eggs through the winter. Something like this:

"So daddy do the daddy penguins like sitting on eggs? Cause that seems like a really long time to wait for the mommy penguins"

And parents like to exaggerate.

[Kokowam]

Then again, he's two years old so even that level of comprehension and speech is far beyond what a normal two year old can usually do.

[EvilM00s]

I'm curious if he'll ever have a normal childhood, or anything like one. I mean, sure, if I was his dad, I'd want him to use his "gift" for the betterment of himself and others, but I'd also want him to just be a kid sometimes. I can just see him at age 10, in Oxford or something, slitting his wrists because all he wants to do is go play outside instead of proving wether Schroedinger's Cat is alive or dead. Then again, maybe he'll be into that kind of stuff...

[Dertt]

I had a pretty extensive vocabulary at age two.
My parents just bragged to their friends, though. They didn't contact a journalist.

[Malson]

I think most of the people here are above average intelligence. As bad as it sounds, we do a pretty good job of weeding the idiots out.

[Kokowam]

Semi-necro: Lol I noticed in the original article, they write, "Assessors at the Gifted Children's Information Centre in Solihull said Oscar, with an IQ of at least 160, is one of the brightest children they have every come across."

It's always funny to notice typos.