Child Genius
C4, 9pm 16/04/2008
This is a catch-up with some of the super-bright children we met a couple of years ago.
But with all the talk of IQ it would be useful if the director (who sounds about 11-years-old herself) had explained that IQ measures a child’s supposed intelligence against kids of their own age.
So that when Georgia Brown, aged two, makes headlines because she has an IQ of 152, this is only compared to other two-year-olds. Not compared to say, Stephen Hawking.
Georgia fell asleep during her first test, so we get to sit in as she’s tested again.
Watching her point to a picture of a cow after being asked “What animal produces milk” should put a little perspective on things.
Another example of how specialness is all relative is 11-year-old Peter.
His parents took him out of school because, as he boasts: “You don’t need school if you’re good at chess.”
At the world championship in Croatia Peter discovers that – guess what – the world is full of geeky 11-year-olds who are even better at chess than he is.
A valuable lesson – if only Peter and his dad would heed it.
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/
That last example is pure arrogance and ego of the parents.
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I haven’t found anything related to topic you’re speaking of in the link you provided…xa
“Anonymous said…
That last example is pure arrogance and ego of the parents.”
It’s not ego or arrogance if your kid is an imbecile. Get over it.
It was a European championship, not World, and sure enough he got only 3.5/9. He is stuck at 1800 for several years.
In the newspaper website search box type ‘peter chess’ and you see the report.