As touched on briefly in today’s NewsSquawk, Georgia Brown is not your average two-year old. She has the distinction of being the youngest girl ever accepted to the prestigious genius club Mensa. Her parents, seeing that she appeared to be very bright and concerned about her future education, took the girl to see specialists. It was then that they discovered that she is in the top .2 percent of the population with an IQ of 152.

Who is a typical Mensan? From their web site:

Mensans range in age from 4 to 94, but most are between 20 and 60. In education they range from preschoolers to high school dropouts to people with multiple doctorates. There are Mensans on welfare and Mensans who are millionaires. As far as occupations, the range is staggering. Mensa has professors and truck drivers, scientists and firefighters, computer programmers and farmers, artists, military people, musicians, laborers, police officers, glassblowers–the diverse list goes on and on. There are famous Mensans and prize-winning Mensans, but there are many whose names you wouldn’t know.

Having a two year old myself, I find the things that Georgia apparently can do are impressive. I have always held these tests as an indicator of potential, but let’s face it there are some really smart people in the world that do stupid things, and as their website explains, just having a high IQ dos not guarantee future success. I’m curious as to what Georgia’s parents intentions are, and how this will impact Geogria’s future. It is one thing to test your child’s potential IQ and to direct an education that maximises her potential - it is another thing to enter her into Mensa and notify the news media. And I can’t help but wonder if they are so keen to sign her up for a genius club, what other things are they doing to pressure this little girl.

In any case, I do wish the family all the best and I really hope that Georgia grows up a happy, healthy, well-balanced girl.

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