Yeah i dont agree with the forcing children to go to special schools and parading them around like a trophy, im not trying to discredit her but i was reading at a college level in 2nd grade, (im autistic, and i learn differently than other people and languages just so happened to be my *thing*) young children are just smarter than people give them credit so when one does more than the bare minimum everyone panics
@@EE-gz5xu "... young children are just smarter than people give them credit so when one does more than the bare minimum everyone panics." True about many children. And apparently true about you.
@@fwcolb yeah the reading skills evened themselves out, now im jist good at writing essays and latin 💀 i wouldnt be surprised if they told me that her skills also evened themselves out
@@EE-gz5xu Latin? You like Cicero? Catulllus? Who else? I taught myself to read Latin when attending Mass in the days when Latin was used. We had missals with dual-language texts on facing pages. But I hated Caesar and his crappy account of the Gallic War.
I had a high IQ as a child and was often told how smart I was by my parents... I then got an ADHD diagnosis, promptly got bored in school and ended up barely graduating high school before eventually going on to get a Master's degree. It was a blessing and a curse...
I can relate to this, 15 right now and I also have ADHD. when I was like 8-12 I was a fkn genius, I never studied for anything and constantly performed at the top of my class in practically all subjects aside from french and pe. Now I can definitely notice I do a little bit better than others with the same or less amount of studying, but it's pretty scary to see my natural intelligence slowly go away. I only really know like a few people who were super smart around that time that still are as effortlessly smart.
@@IOwnKazakhstan Not necessarily. Maybe you don't do well within this current system. Smart people have existed since the dawn of time, industrialization has only been around for 200 years give or take. Perhaps you're more free-spirited and the constraints of the bureaucracy cause you to lose motivation or hope because your capacity isn't recognized by it. Might want to look into self-sufficient/off-the-grid living, as many high-intellect people have moved towards doing things their way instead of abiding by the system.
@@IOwnKazakhstanI’ve got a similar story - fluently reading for my own entertainment at 3, speed reading out loud as fast senior students when I was in 1st grade, primary school math was a breeze as I had an innate understanding of basic algebra (like the level that’s applicable in everyday life regardless of age). I was constantly praised as a freakin genius and everyone thought I was gonna go far 😂 Low and behold - since middle school I was doing average at best of times. When we had to memorise formulas, poems off by heart (if this sounds weird, that’s the education system in Ukraine for you), geographic locations on a map and historical names & dates - 🧠💨💩… Got kicked out of one uni and barely finished another after repeating half the subjects in my degree. I was labeled lazy and a massive disappointment for wasting my own potential since I was 10, when in reality I had adhd with poor long-term memory, which only got diagnosed when I was nearly 30 and living in Australia. Something‘a gotta give 😂
My smarts, resolution and creativity made me a favourite through primary grades, and got me into a lot of trouble in high school. I ended up in an alternate program. Wasted a year there (I was not disruptive, but I questioned everything and the faculty ran out of answers), so I begged my way back into regular high school and resolved to do what I had to do to get my Dogwood. My dad and I started a business the spring I graduated high school. Probably the best thing that could have happened to me. Six years in, and one of my brothers joined us. He had always been a sharp knife as well, had gone on to one successful career, but was attracted to our industry. Thirty years later, I am successful, mortgage free, have my retirement looked after, and make my own schedule, which is mainly devoted to the animal non-profit I sit on the board of. Business offers a huge challenge. As the world and economy changes, we have to change. Our father passed away a few years ago, and we’ve continued on, as strong as ever. I am the creative, passionate influence and my brother is the down to earth numbers guy, and it’s a fruitful, complimentary partnership. Too often you’re pushed to “go to school” when what you really wanna do is live life and be challenged. I was fortunate to have someone in my younger life who had been there and done that; my dad. He pushed me to get my hands dirty, put in a seventy hour work week, and build something I’m incredibly proud of. It’s still a lot of work, but it’s our deal, our decisions, our mistakes, our successes, OUR lives.
Whenever I tell someone "had a high IQ" they make fun of me. I was tested as a kid when I got into the gifted programs. It was extremely high. What I didn't know was that I had ADHD which got worse as I got older- wasn't diagnosed til last year. I'm incredibly intelligent for sure- but concentration and memorization plays a huge part in these tests. (which quickly evaporated with each passing year. Also an IQ just measures your ability to learn. If it's not fostered- you just got alot of raw material and alot of regrets. I honestly would have rather had the ADHD diagnosis as a kid. Wouldve helped alot more than just knowing I had alot of potential.
Yes. Most young geniuses will burnout and get discouraged when they hit a wall, because they were unstopable until then, and they are still emotionally not intelligent enough to deal with failure.
Not necessarily. Nobel Prize winners did not get 160+ IQs as adults, but as children. What would cause depression is having an IQ over 145 and not knowing why you are different. A "genius" would score 145 or over. This is 3 standard deviations above the mean. Only 1% of the population score 145 and over. Over 160 means that this girl is an extraordinary genius. True she may find it awkward in school with children who either do not see what she sees or children who have to work hard to learn. But she will know why she is different and it will probably not worry her. I attended one large meeting of Mensa when I joined in 1967 or so. And indeed some Mensa members were very odd people. What surprised me were the number of underachievers I met. I never attended another meeting and let my membership lapse. I concluded that many personal qualities are more important than IQ. Nurture is as important as IQ and that depends on how children are raised by their parents and teachers and other members of the community. Recall that some of the most wanted criminals and terrorists have high IQs. The highly intelligent wrongdoers tend to avoid getting caught.
every time I see the case of a child who is called a genius, I think about the pressure that child will have throughout their life to constantly prove that they're the best, and if things change over time, they will feel like a failure and feel like they let everyone around them down. Hope she has a good life in the future.
Yes. Same worry. Parents and teachers start expecting more than is realistic and insisting it is their place to do better. The moment you can't perform better or maybe even fail at something it's easily depression and suicidal thoughts. Treat the brain with respect just like the organs of the body. Don't overwork it. And work towards proper brain health. Meet with psychologists, physiatrists, and other experts to assist in this.
"She's smarter than Mom and Dad..." Correction: She has the potential for greater intelligence than her parents. They still have more knowledge than her due to experience and education, but when she gets to their age she will have much more if she keeps with this upswing. Having a great ability to learn does not mean one has already learned.
She is smarter... she speaks Spanish fluently, and doesn’t use words out of context, so she is able to apply things more accurately than her parents. They even said she corrects them. Her parent obviously know more from learning through experience, but if you were to put her and her parents in a room and teach them something, the daughter would retain and be able to apply the new information more accurately... also a side note an IQ is an intelligence quotient which to tone it down it basically it is measuring how smart you are with a number, so if her parents is lower than hers then that means she is smarter.
The keeping with it part is important. I was like her as a child, but after being raised by a drug dealer and an alcoholic, I'm definitely no genius as an adult.
Get Ass no, they said that she was telling them a 20-25 page book from memory. She wasn’t reading a book for 25 year olds. During the interview, she was reading a book that is geared towards little kids. Actually I’ve never heard of a book designed for a particular age because a book for 25 year olds would be a typical, adult book.
questioning whether she's "still" in Mensa? (you don't lose the membership because the brain's still the same) - try making another one (a clever one, this time)
As a child who skipped grades in grade school, I would definitely advise the parents to try to get her into a school environment that is as normal as possible. Being moved ahead was very damaging to my ability to socialize. Adults can be years apart yet have no difficulty relating to one another but children who are just 2 years apart are worlds apart in social development. I was bullied mercilessly and it permanently affected my ability to make friends and feel comfortable around people my own age. There are many different kinds of intelligence. Mental I.Q. is only one. Moral intelligence and social intelligence are others. A person needs a balance of all of these to be whole. My sister always resented me because she had to work harder in school. But she managed decent grades and was inducted into the National Honor Society. I breezed through school without having to learn discipline while she developed skills that would serve her well later in life. She finally got a Masters degree at the age of 45 and is now a school principle. My point here is that intelligence isn’t everything. I admire my sister for her perseverance and hard work and also for what she has accomplished.
props to you and it seems that your are book smart and street smart from what youre saying here. You sound like a good person and I hope life after school has been good to you. I despise bullying and Ive noticed that people who get bullied go two ways, one is they bully others on revenge for what they went through and the other is they use it as a moral compass to achieve great things and prevent bullying
I can relate in two ways... 1) I skipped 4th grade. While I was intellectually ready there was so much more of me that was not. 2) My father’s IQ is in that top percentage. I appreciate the fact that he always felt the responsibility of going to work and providing financially for his family. But he was a terrible father. He was always “checked out” and living in his own fantasy world. My mother had to raise 2 girls and 3 boys with no other help from him. Not the best childhood but not the worst. 🤷♀️
@M Shultz - I think every child has different needs, its not as black and white as some people may think it is. I was accepted into Mensa when I was seven years old with an IQ of 157. My mother did not let me attend, because she wanted me to have a normal life and be socialized (as you suggested. That was the worst parenting decision she could have ever made on my behalf. I needed to be around children who were exceptional like me, because it would have allowed me to feel less ostracized from society. I was bullied on a daily basis for being more advanced than my classmates (I was not allowed to skip grades). My Intelligence made me a target at school and over time, it psychologically conditioned me to believe that I was abnormal and it created a life time battle with self confident issues that effected every area of my life as an adult. I begged my mom every day for permission to be homeschooled, because I could always focus better if I was alone. The answer was always "No," and I was told that I just needed to suck it up and learn how to adapt to the school environment like everybody else. I learned how to adapt be pretending to be stupid, because that was the only way I could make friends at school. I became quiet and withdrawn and eventually even sucidal. The self confidence issues, developed into an 18 year battle with an eating disorder that almost took me life. The point, is that if every parent of a brillant child was to take the same approach/perspective that you are suggesting, it could potentially ruin the child's life permanently. The problem is that children who are born with an extremely high IQ, are very self aware! They know what is best for them, more then the parents do, yet their needs and desires are not taken into consideration due to their age. My, potential was robbed not because of my intelligence, but because of the way that society percieves how children should be dealt with. My story, is not a unique one and I'm sure thier are other brilliant children in the world who suffered, due to the ignorance of thier parents. Humans need to learn from their mistakes, instead of repeating the same old patterns!
@@cg3560 Their are other ways to socialize a child, other than forcing them to attend school. Sports, Dance, Art, etc. These are only a few examples of extra curricular activities that a child can partipate in, inoder to become properly socialized. Maturity, is a whole other topic and it is related to both life experiences and 'emotional intelligence', which is not tested on the IQ test. Some children like myself, are old souls. Meaning, that we incarnate with a much more serious approach to life in general, because our souls have lifetimes of experience under belts. We do not need a 'tour guide', which is basically what a parent is for children like myself. If, you have a child that has an IQ of 145 or higher, they are not going to be interested in the same things that a normal child would be. In, other words they don't need guidance, they need support. For, example: when I was nine years old, I could read and write at a 10 grade level. I was spending most of my spare time writing novels and studying psychology, while the other children my age were only interested in playing video games and talking about pokemon. I had no idea what pokemon even was, nor could I care less. The truth, is that children like me had nothing in common with kids my age. Most of my friends growing up, were 20 years older than me, only because I could have political debates with them...that would other wise be impossible with a child who was the same age as me. I get where your coming from, but like I said before, their is no one size fits all modality for children who do not fit the traditional mold, of how a child is 'expected' to act and conform to society.
I think the way it works is if you get the first however many right, it kicks the questions up a notch in difficulty. If you keep getting them right, they keep getting harder, if you get one wrong it stays the same level I believe.
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The funny thing here is that Mensa in Spanish means stupid or dumb *Edit* ok ok, I wrote this comment a while ago and i still get replies of people saying is wrong. Mensa is the feminine form of a Mexican slang that means dumb, so maybe some Spanish speakers might be confused since the word isn’t used in their country or in the way they learned Spanish. Just to clarify :D Btw, thank you so much for the likes
Only thing stopping her from being literally having a much too overpowered body and mind is the athlean x training system on RUclips with peak fitness and nutrition.
i feel like being told at 3 years of age that you are more intelligent (or at least have the potential to be) than 99%+ of the population could be potentially problematic down the road, in regards to character development. hopefully, her high IQ also comes with high self-awareness/humility as well.
When you are a kid IQ tests measure the development stage in acquiring intelligence, she has done very well on 3 yo IQ tests. She was not smarter than an average 7 years old. This only means that she developed really fast, not that she is really smart. Since this video was made in 2014, now she is 11, and I bet now she is a really good student at school, not a genius better than 99.9%. This was a marketing stunt for Mensa, some very subjective parents, and a very precocious little girl, nothing more.
There are many young musician prodigies who we see have long public careers. The young academic prodigies are rarely seen again after the initial media blitz. All young prodigies have in common active involved parents who search for the best teachers to continue advancing the child's abilities and connections within the particular field of interest.
This is an incredible little girl. All the information I know about geniuses is that they often fail in life because of the social aspect! Keep her emotions and social interactions paramount.
@@AnalyticalReckoner I'm speaking from experience. I know quite a handful of very intelligent children who grew up not knowing how to handle their skills - became depressed, anxious, felt alone, had to cope with very high expectations from people, and feeling very isolated/different from everyone else. I meant that well, by the way. I realize my original statement sounded negative. My apologies for that. I am hopeful she will have all the support to ensure her success in life. ^_^
@Dusty that's bullshit bro, as long as you dont have, say, aspergers or something like that, being intelligent won't ruin your emotional development (in fact you might be better with emotions than regular folk). But it is correlated with depression and anxiety so there's that
+Savingtheplanet Thank you, I've already lost faith in humanity but I thought this was general knowledge. Let's see if she's still got an IQ that high in 10 years..... *sigh* she probably will, people are getting stupider.
exactly what i'm saying?? iq is your mental age divided by your chronological age times 100. so in order for her iq to be over 160, her mental age would only have to be 6. also, the iq tests designed for children are very different from adult tests, so they are completely wrong in saying she's smarter than her parents.
They'll tell everyone she is, and then they'll think they're better than everyone because they had her, and she'll be a huge spoiled snob when she grows up.
Mensa in Spanish means stupid. (edit: thanks for the likes! to clarify I know Mensa means dumb technically in Spanish sorry to confuse anyone. (Spanish is my native tongue even though my name clearly does not reflect that) but I just said stupid because dumb and stupid are synonyms and I didn’t think it would matter much since it’s about the same meaning just different word. I apologize again for any confusion.
My next door neighbor, when I was three, was a three year old boy who read the newspaper. I went through twelve grades of public school with him, and he remained the smartest kid in our very large school, all the way until graduation. We are 70 now. He is my oldest friend.
So what did he do with himself? Some of the smartest kids I knew in school bombed out later. The really smart ones don't make a big deal about their intelligence. They just one day do something incredible and act like it's no big deal.
Yeah, a lot of it is memory. Other major components that go into factoring IQ levels are things like problem solving, critical thinking, examining, interpreting, comprehension, evaluating, reasoning, etc... But yes, memory is certainly a big part of it! :)
“Also fluent in Spanish.” She’s learning the phrase, “ustedes son hombres” which means “you are men” in Spanish, not even close to fluency. I don’t mean for this to be negative, her intelligence is impressive, but part of this just isn’t true.
I think they mean she speaks Spanish just as good (w an English accent but that makes sense) as she speaks English. Neither her English nor Spanish sounds good bc she still is a 3-year-old
Arianna Maria I doubt it. As a Duolingo user if she is just at the stage of learning, “ustedes son hombres” she definitely hasn’t done many lessons. I bet she wouldn’t be able to say, “can I use my new doll” in spanish.
I hope her parents stayed humble about it, and didn't brag to everyone about her abilities. At 18 months, I learned how to read, and at 3 1/2 years old I learned how to write. My mom would continuously tell me that I was smarter than everyone, and it ended up making me tell everyone at my preschool that I was better than them. It eventually lead to me not having any friends until I moved away in the 3rd grade.
@@teteeheeted When you're so competent and cocky to the point where you'll much rather make fun of someone's spelling instead of undermining the point they're making.
You simply cannot learn grammar with those apps (and therefore fluency), I seriously doubt she would understand anything about grammar without taking some sort of language class. Languages are extremely complicated, from the gender of words, the tenses, and everything in between.
Totally Not Summer Morrison yes exactly and although she is v Intelligent I doubt anyone age 3 can comprehend all that without a native speaker in the family
@Totally Not Summer Morrison Coming from someone who is bilingual in two languages, I legit died inside when she was using an app. Apps don’t teach you about how different they sound depicting on the situation, and they don’t teach you about slang, which is really important when talking in a different language since most people use slang or less formal words.
My sister was just like this at Alexis's age, now shes a write/director She could literally point out anywhere you mentioned on the globe, and capitals too This girl will go far
@@chaska8144 well good for you that you feel the need to degrade anyone for thinking a child is smart. Especially a 3 year old that hasn't been through SCHOOLING yet Nobody will ever be as intelligent as YOU, OH random troll. PS you're massive ego is showing.
your IQ isn't exactly how smart you are. its more of how easily you're able to learn and what you're capable of learning. it also deals with the way you perceive most things. though they didn't interview the child, they still said she was "fluent" in Spanish and can memorize decent sized books in one day is incredible for someone of her age. the speed that she is able to learn seems to be far more advanced than almost all children her age. (and a LOT of adults)
@Papi Kink I don't understand how you typed this out without feeling completely stupid and you forgot a "huh?" At the end don't come at me with the "bet you feel stupid" I don't think I'm more or less intelligent then others.
She reminds me of my little girl. She is three and can speak Spanish, Russian, Greek, Latin (and more) reads books beyond her age range containing three syllable words. Corrects me on species of animals, shades of colours ect and has an impeccable memory. She's just so clever
WHAT?! Your girl is amazing!! When I was 4 I was cutting my bangs off cause I saw katy perry do it in a music video and thought she was crying because it hurt. 😭
Because IQ is measured compared to the average, and for kids that's the average for your age. Also it's measured using tests and puzzles which people are known to get better at with practice (in fact the original inventer of the IQ test never intended it to be used to permanently label people). So basically '3 year old with 160 IQ' just means a 3 year old that's doing puzzles that average 4 or 5 year olds do. Also there's no way of knowing if she'll keep being ahead for her age.
some kids are really smart, this one in particular is lucky enough to have caring parents and to have been tested. So, she'll hopefully get the right education. I do wonder how many kids out there don't have those opportunities.
DrZarkloff I think she is just learning how to speak. This girl is so smart and incredible. I was reading in a fifth grade level when I was in 3rd grade and she is only 3!
celest s you are right. Some kids in this planet don't get an education and people with access to education take it for granted. We complain about so much but we don't think about the other people. Go watch IISuperwomanII's RUclips video on her life changing experience in Kenya. BTW, she is also known as Lilly Singh.
Yeah I'm really confused. My daughter said her first word at 3 months old and said over 100 words by the time she was one, no joke. Now she's 2 and she says full sentences and you can understand her almost perfectly. My daughter also knows a lot of Spanish words and can count and knows full lyrics to songs and can draw faces. Shes not close to being 3 either. Her birthday is in November. Although my daughter couldn't remember pages and pages of stories. Small ones yeah, like Brown bear Brown bear. What does an IQ test test any way? I haven't taken one.
"She's way smarter than mum and dad"...lol no. Her 160 IQ is in the top 2% for her AGE. 160 child IQ is not equivalent to 160 adult IQ, because scores are only comparable on a percentile basis not an absolute basis. I'm not saying this to dunk on her. She's a very bright and gifted little girl and I hope she goes far in life, but for goodness sake newscasters, she's still *three* Well actually, 12 now...but you get my point.
As someone who also started reading books around two, and the daily newspaper at three, I think an option to be considered for kids who are at a cognitively higher level than their peers is to keep them at the age - appropriate grade level at school, but to challenge them intellectually at home. It's not a cutesy movie trope to have kids grow up in an emotionally mismatched or toxic environment. It may mess them up for life.
They need to be in a school that maximizes their potential. I was lucky enough that while I was not skipped grades, I was allowed to work at my own pace in many subjects. for example in second grade I did both 2nd and 3rd grade math. That allowed me in 3rd grade to jump ahead and do grades 4, 5 and 6.
I disagree. Kids don't conform to one size fits all. Higher functioning kids tend to need to keep feeding their knowledge. Some are concentrated to specific areas of interest while others are generalized but regardless there is a need for this and if it's not fulfilled, poses other issues which could be mild or severe; depending on the child. keeping a child at grade level will not satisfy their own learning needs. There is no reason they can't be placed in a learning environment at their academic level but that can fulfill their social and emotional needs as well.
I disagree. Her gift must be celebrated and nurtured. I would never allow my intellectually gifted child in a regular school. She needs a private tutor. School will do nothing but set her back. Schools are cesspools of stupidity and immorality anyhow.
As a mom to a kid who taught herself tp read at 2, I refuse to jump her ahead. She needs social and emotional development...that is not accelerated like her IQ is
@@charlottemiller7675 Same here. My son went to a Montessori school where he had his fellow classmates at his age level and older children in his classroom. This type of classroom was ideal for ny son as it satisfied his social skills and his higher level academic need. He's 21 now. Best decision I made for him.
She's probably around nine right now. I wonder how she's doing (edit: to the people correcting me: I made this comment months ago, in January of 2021, she was probably not ten when I commented, unless you specifically know when her birthday is, stop correcting me.)
@@RacecarsAndRicefish IQ is based around a test that uses age as factor in determining the final score. So may that it be she has a high IQ for her age, it doesn't necessarily mean that she has well developed social skills for her age.
Dankprincess how old are you now (approximately)? I am 53, IQ tested in 8th grade 124, I still had issues with the volume of school work in high school. When not burdened by volume of work, I can do a lot higher skilled stuff. Started with nothing, net worth approaching $5M. I think it is IQ related to put off pleasure, plan, and invest.
@Quinzel Sabina you probably shouldn’t have said don’t judge me. Now people are going to judge and be rude to you. Just know they for future reference.
Every parent does that. I’m a young child with 160+ IQ and whenever my parents tell me I’m Intelligent or bright, especially considering my age, I think they may be lying, due to having trust issues for this exact reason. I go in public, have small and short conversations, and boom, everybody tells my parents, “Oh, your daughter is so smart!” I don’t believe it. When I go to my guitar lessons, The owner of the store which I play in, and my teacher, both tell me “She’s a genius” and all of that. I tell myself, “Oh, it’s because they’re getting paid. Otherwise, they wouldn’t make these claims.” I will tell you this; I’ve finally stopped believing it’s something biased. Especially because my dad is a brutally honest individual, and he’s told me whether something I did was good or not in kind ways, even if it’s a truth that my brother or I wouldn’t like to hear. He’s got an IQ of 160+, too. He still says I’m a genius. If you have children yourself, Sir, raise them similarly to that in that certain aspect. Brutal honesty should never hurt a child, because it ends up helping them in the end.
I am not sure she is smarter than 99.9% of the world. IQ test usually test in relation to your age group. At 160 she is more intelligent than 99.99% of those tested in her age group not of all who have been tested. And what test/s did they do to evaluate her?
Veridicus Maximus You are right, a three year old with an IQ of 160 just have an intelligence of an average 8 years old. so by no mean smarter than 99.9% of the population not is she smarter than her parents.
Ihopeyouenjoyedreadingthisridiculouslylongusernamehaveaniceday) Yeah the Mensa people do but the reporters however don't know much about the tests. Your IQ is always measured in comparison to your age group, so no this kid isn't smarter than 99,9% of the population, she is smarter than 99,9% of 3-year olds. These X-year old and already in Mensa or X-year old and already IQ of X news are flawed for that very reason, a kid with an IQ of 140 is just as common as an adult with an IQ of 140'
Christian Pepole But...they didn't show her skills. :/ Cool, she got into Mensa, how, exactly? It's just kind of a useless clip. All they said was that she got into Mensa repeatedly... Also, I just can't with your username- The spelling, the _Christian_-
Gabriela Suárez Díaz Okay, well, umm...this clip was literally just useless. If they actually wanted to make something out of this, they would allow us to see her skills and they would make it worth it. That's literally just going against the whole point of the video. -.-
I have never gotten my oldest son tested but he has always been so bright! He waved at the word “hi” at 10 months old.. could count 1-10 in Spanish and French before he was even 2 .. wanted to be a paleontologist in preschool .. and so many other things that were very shocking to me and his father! We were both considered gifted as children as well so our two brains together seemed to make this extremely smart child! We never pushed him tho bc we want him to live a normal life and not be held to these high standards.. we also homeschooled him for 6 years. He now is back in public school at 15 and is top of his class of 442 students! It’s so interesting to see your child excel so easily, but most people are doubtful and sometimes even offended when you brag about your child! Every kid is different and we should all be proud of their individual achievements!
There ain't no social life for her. She can't communicate with her peers. Kids at her age believe in Santa, play with mud, dolls, and tiny cars; for her, that's unbearably boring. People with that IQ level need to find their peers who are at their level. The fact that she is a girl is not really the best, as in general, men want to dominate, to lead, and will discriminate her as a way to protect their fragile ego. I hope things will change soon enough so she won't become an adult in a society where people rather envy or hate people like her, than appreciate and try to follow their step or be great in other ways.
@@Gamerlife-cv2tn you gringos are weird, one of the smartes brain in our astro phisic class, was a theorial math student, and we always prize her for her intelligence and flawless theorical math understanding and application At those high lvls that discrimination doesnt exist, unless she goes for lesser careers like sociology, law, politics, etc, but as long as she keeps her way among true smart people (hard science) she wont experience that discrimination
Smart kids "a priori" will never have a "normal" life per say, and shouldn't, they arent average, they sre very self aware, like for example, soon she will start doing complex math and understand the laws of physics so she will say things to her parents like "i have go to the conclusion that santa doesn't exist according to the laws of physics and human mythology" at age 4 or 5 So forcing her into a normal kids life is detrimental, just let her be, give her what she needs, and adapt to the way she sees the world and experience it
They said Mensa's criterion is top 2%, whereas she is smarter than 99.9% of the population. There's no contradiction. Maybe pay attention more instead of trying so damn hard to be funny?
Putting together puzzles...hardly even showed her talking in the video. Apparently she was smart enough to be accepted into Mensa, they just didn't really show that in the video.
@@zerozeroeszeroed | I agree. I just saw a three year old child, her parents and some news reporters. My niece came over today (she is three as well) and I didn’t see much of a difference. That must just be me though... 😂💀
A J Yeah..I think that the news reporters or whoever filmed it didn't do a very good job because they didn't recite anything that she could do that was above 3-year old level. If she was smart enough to get into Mensa, than she was smart enough to get into Mensa, they just didn't show any great footage of it. If you want to make a video on the news about an above average, smart 3 year old, at least show why the 3 year old is smart-...
I think it's interesting that we worry SO much about 'age-appropriate social development' from K-12 grade, but then expect people to adapt and automatically know how to talk with people from so many different generations in the workplace. I'm such a proponent for multi-age classrooms because I think it helps to socialize kids who may be more cognitively developed and who still need to be socially challenged.
I'm in 11th grade in highschool and there is this 8 year old kid in my grade who spends half the day at highschool then the other half at a college to take math. He's super smart but I also feel bad because he's still soo young and not mature enough so it's hard for him to have friends
I'm guessing he's already moved up. Those kids hustle pretty quickly in academia, they try to get them on the front lines asap. Did you make friends with him?
superligitguy yup. I only have an iq of 2 so i dont understand any of the jokes on rick and morty. You have to have very high iq to understand the jokes. Its not like its an overrated unfunny show but i wouldnt know cause my iq is too low.
i mean in reality you dont need to be super smart to learn any language tbh. I was speaking in Arabic, English and Spanish at the age of 3 lol. If shes good at math then thats impressive
The Legend of Lara its a lot easier for a toddler/young child to learn another language. Its much harder as an adult. I learned french when i was young and was fluent by 7. Where as it took me aaaages to become fluent in italian as a teen/young adult.
I agree. Before the age of 6 I was able to remember lot of things, I knew all the name of muscles and bones of the human body, I grew up knowing a lot of different words and I had an amazing memory. But I got an OCD with anxiety disorders and a bit of depression and when I became sixteen I went downhill. Now I'm 27 and my memory just never came back as it used to be, sometimes I feel like I was much more intelligent 20 years ago before my mental illness than now. You can never tell.
Agreed. Young kids are fast learners so it could very well be her parents are forcing her to learn these things in order to boast with her intelligence. My parents barely had any time to spend with me as they were always working, I was always spending time alone in daycare, so neither I or the other kids at the daycare were taught anything at ages infant to kindergarden. Could very well be there was a hyperintelligent kid among us, but at the time it was impossible to know since none of us were stimulated. Also, a lot of the time, child prodigies just flatten out once they get older.
Yeah, about 90% of all kids who did a IQ screening at young age turned out to have dropped by 15-30 score at follow-up screenings already by the age of 13. Good on her but I think she would do much better in life learning at free will in a normal school instead of getting pushed beyoned the limit the rest of her life because of an inaccurate test she did as a 3 y/o
Yep. As a kid, as in when I was literally like 5, I could speak German, Russian, and Czech fluently because of my family. But one day I just started forgetting words. Can still speak them, but when my dads mum died we kinda just stopped speaking Czech I guess.,,
Wow, for the first thirty years of MY life I struggled to be smarter than my cat. What a fantastic future I hope this family has and God bless this gift given here to perhaps be the one that changes this world for the better. Now's the time we need it more than ever.
I just learned about this but I’m not sure about it but, it doesn’t mean she’s smarter than 99.9% of people in the world. Younger kids have a bigger iq bc their age and mental age is divided and that makes it a higher score on an iq test. I agree she is very very smart. But when people get older like 50 their mental age is also around 50. But when your younger your iq will almost always be higher
IQ doesn't really work that way. It's based on a normal distribution table meaning it always has to do with how far away you are from the standard (in this case 100). Kids can't really therefore all have a higher IQ than themselves when they are older since the average is based on the average of the people of that age. So if you are perfectly normal you have an IQ of 100. If you then grow up and are still perfectly normal, this being much smarter than yourself when you were a child though, you would still score 100 as everyone else got smarter alongside you.
She’s not smarter than 99.9 percent of people in the world because the majority of those people have NEVER been tested. Don’t get me wrong, she’s obviously very very smart but we don’t know about all the people in the world, only those who have been tested. Hopefully some day she can channel her intellect into solving some of the worlds toughest problems. I wish her the best!
wrong, there is a bell curve that is predictive of the iq of the population as a whole and predicts the rarity of that iq so yes if she has an iq of 160 or more she is smarter than 99.9 percent of the world pop. lmao you don't need to test every individual to know that.
“Fluent in Spanish”. I’d love to hear her have a full-blown conversation about maths or animals with a native speaker, if it’s true. Sounds like over exaggeration.
She does not sound fluent at all, in fact, the way she pronounce the words have a heavy english accent, but she is young and has a big room to learn, hope she is doing okay.
I actually speak english and spanish perfectly bc I live in texas and i also am very close to mexico so rn I couldnt care less about someone who can do that
I wish we could get an update on this story; I really hope this kid is having a great life, and not being held to such an impossible standard that the pressure is too much to bear. She deserves to be happy and free, not treated like some all-knowing oracle of knowledge who's automatically a disappointment if she doesn't deliver on that premise. These incredibly well-learned children sadly always seem to have a tougher time in life.
Johnny Appleseed a lot of people are, except you cant take college classes at 13, lol when you grow some seeds on that nutsack and dont make shit up, your allowed to talk'
I'm sorry, but this little girl was just rolling around reciting countries and Spanish phrases from memory. I've seen RUclipss of 3 year old pianist prodigies and an unsolved mysteries of a 6 year old solving master courses in physics for fun. Put a math problem infront of her and let's see how well she does. MENSA is just passing out those cards lately so they don't die out. Ridiculous.
pikazou actually at 3 yes look up the test Mensa has them for anyone to see. My son scored 156 at the age of 2 which is silly. He’s extremely smart but so is every child with parents who have half a brain.
@@lavenderware6279 A school where you get to experience the normal stuff like socializing with other kids and not being treated like some extraordinary specimen that should be isolated from the world. :/ I mean sure, you got all the high knowledge and got shoved into some prestigious academy or whatever but with it you get crushing pressure, detachment from normal socializing, and if you lose your 'worth', they'll probably throw you in with others they deemed useless. It's better to be treated normal than hella special.
@Ask Bird Who shat on your food to insult me like that? You could have just explained where I went wrong in your perspective without being an ass. Also, even if there is a difficulty in interacting due to the IQ gap, they are still children. Even with that they will still be able to empathize with each other. If you're only surrounded by people with the same extreme abilities as you, you'd probably more likely not know the situation with those who weren't as lucky enough to be gifted or even understand truly what they are going through, and that misunderstanding will likely continue to grow until they are older. That's my point in it.
Just a question here. Doesn’t the IQ test and the qualifications to get into MENSA include reading comprehension, advanced math, vocabulary, logic problems etc??? I just didn’t understand how a three year old could have an IQ of 160 with a 5th grade reading level. Can anyone explain this or agree with me on this topic? The video did a bad job of highlighting her talents of genius. They should showed more than her placing countries on the map and reading a book. ?????
William James Sidis was fluent in 8 languages at the age of 8, if the girl in this video learned spanish from an iPad I would believe she learned to speak some basic sentences from Duolingo.
I'm happy that the doctor pointed out that she can't go to a normal school. It's important for her to be around others who also have a high IQ because those who have high IQs tend to be ostracized by the other kids. In general, people feel the most comfortable interacting with people of similar IQs. It's also extremely difficult on kids when the classes move too slowly because they are bored out of their minds hearing what they understand over and over.
The doctor is wrong. At age 3, all children should go to regular school, where they are encouraged to learn to deal with separation anxiety, develop their creativity, play with others, take turns, socialize, take naps when told, eat lunch and learn basic table manners, sit quietly and listen to a story, walk around the neighborhood in a group, play in the sandbox, have fun in the playground, and then go home. These are the most important life skills. "Everything I know I learned in Kindergarten". Robert Fulghum.
How many Latino kids in the US are fluent in Spanish and English? My children are fluent in English and German and learning French...where is their Mensa card?
Mc Hobbit who cares?? Everyone should know at least one language plus if your family is German they learn it better. Also language isn’t a huge deal it’s also academics especially math
Oh I agree that everyone should know at least two languages. That is why I am teaching my children. It''s only in America where it's this extraordinary sign of high intelligence. If her parents were Mexican, they wouldn't give a hoot that she speaks Spanish but they consider it oh so special for a lily white child. As for math--many Asians teach their children math that we in Europe and American consider advanced for their age and while some of the children cannot do it, most can. In some Asian countries, US high school work is grade school work. So if she were in Korea, the math wouldn't be a big deal. Even reading--I met many earlier readers. I myself read at three. No reason but I was read to a lot and taught my letters and sounds. I'm not a genius, far from it. There are also programs that will teach toddlers to read. Just check youtube. Sure, not every child will learn if you try these things but in general, children can learn a lot when they have devoted parents who teach them. If she was infact taught, then she is a bright child but not a genius because I'd say at least half of all children have the capability but not every parent knows how to or wants to empathize academics at such a young age. Other than Spanish, reading and math, we are just looking at memorization, such as where countries are etc. The only skill this takes is a good memory. I'd argue that she is very above average in that department, though children generally seem good at memorizing things.
Mc Hobbit I agree. I also think the US education system sucks. They should teach children new languages when they are very young so they can learn it. I really wish I was in an Asian country like japan or Korea and go to school there.
As someone who skipped a few grades, I am happy to hear her parents acknowledge that they want her to develop social skills at each level. It impacted me very drastically when I skipped grades. I regret doing it and wish I would have stayed back. My reasons are a bit different than others though. The biggest reason for me was sports. I played sports being 3 to 4 years younger than other students. I was able to keep up physically with everyone and be a starter in football and baseball but if I had stayed back I would have been able to play at a much more elite level and possibly found a career in sports. Let alone the social issues it posed for me.
I guess it depends on the school. I had great friends who skipped a grade and friend in highschool who too AP classes. They seemed to not get treated any different than the rest of us and were still just as weird goofy as the rest of our group of friends. A few of them are accountants now and doing great for themselves.
If you score 9th stanine 99th percentile on the Otis-Lennon test, and if your abusive and envious parent won't let you skip grades or get you placed in a gifted program, guess what? You STILL have problems with your social development, because the other, average kids become haters and ostracize you, and I was a three-sport athlete. Plus, school becomes really boring, as you are held back below your level of comprehension. Excelling scholastically is our birthright. Never sell your experiences short.
@@alkh3myst being realistic, there's little difference between what they teaxh kids in grade 3 and what they teach them in grade 6 or even 7. Its not until kids hit 14 or 15 and suddenly learn there are way more fun things than learning like sex, drugs and rock and roll, that our western school systems decide, ok time for the real learning.
hi, can you tell me how you became so clever so young, im having my first child, and while im street smart, im also dumb with maths and english etc, so im worried i wont be able to teach and raise a clever child like you, any pointers?
@@lazycarper7925 hi. New mom here with an advanced 1 year old. Talk to them normlly, interaction with other babies REALLY helps. My kid knows stuff i never taught him. The same shows come on the babyfirst channel if you have cable. I think thats how he knows all his alphabet. DONT BE AFRAID OF TV. They say dont let babies watch tv but i never thought anything was wrong becuase my kid ONLY watches educational shows. He wont even pay attention to spongebob or looney tunes if i put it on. also work at a daycare. Kids homework doesnt get hard until about 3rd grade when they start fractions. Theres been times where i couldnt even help the kids and felt dumb 😅 mostly becuase we dont even use what we learn in school in the real world... i just forgot. I think its a matter of luck... there are lot of smart parents with dumb kids and dumb parents with smart kids.
Ok but how is she fluent in Spanish by using Duolingo? My first language is Spanish and I'm not fluent so how can A 3 YEAR OLD who's first language is English be fluent in Spanish that's my question.
Christopher Grace "She would never be able to match a lifetime speaker." If she learns Spanish at the age of 3 and continues speaking it, she *is* a lifetime speaker. She is still the critical period for language, so she could start learning Japanese and Russian at this point and would be able to match a native speaker in just a few years (if she were in an immersive environment, not just learning from a tablet)...
L Lawliet, well they usually maintain their score throughout their life, so it is kind of right. But at this time she isn't smarter than adults yet, so they did't phrase it quite right.
Well it measure brain capacity so technically if she fills her head with a lot of knowledge and is taught the right things the right way, we will have another Einstein.
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"She's still a 3 year old at heart"
uh.. no shes, literally 3 years old
Lmao
ok
@@wildjames she's still 3 "stupid ass" 🤦♂️
James Miller can’t take a joke
@@wildjames And thats changes anything....she is still a kid
“She’s still a three year old at heart”
No, she’s just literally a three year old :/
Yeah i dont agree with the forcing children to go to special schools and parading them around like a trophy, im not trying to discredit her but i was reading at a college level in 2nd grade, (im autistic, and i learn differently than other people and languages just so happened to be my *thing*) young children are just smarter than people give them credit so when one does more than the bare minimum everyone panics
Texsic didn’t really read the comments, just figured I’d say it, my feelings are so hurt now oh no
@@EE-gz5xu "... young children are just smarter than people give them credit so when one does more than the bare minimum everyone panics." True about many children. And apparently true about you.
@@fwcolb yeah the reading skills evened themselves out, now im jist good at writing essays and latin 💀 i wouldnt be surprised if they told me that her skills also evened themselves out
@@EE-gz5xu Latin? You like Cicero? Catulllus? Who else? I taught myself to read Latin when attending Mass in the days when Latin was used. We had missals with dual-language texts on facing pages. But I hated Caesar and his crappy account of the Gallic War.
When I was 3, I got a piece of foam stuck up my nose for more than a month.
Ken Mendoza lmao
😂😂😂😂😂
Ken Mendoza that takes skills
Haha i had a popcorn kernells stuck in my nose for a week when i was younger
Ken Mendoza lol
I had a high IQ as a child and was often told how smart I was by my parents... I then got an ADHD diagnosis, promptly got bored in school and ended up barely graduating high school before eventually going on to get a Master's degree. It was a blessing and a curse...
I can relate to this, 15 right now and I also have ADHD. when I was like 8-12 I was a fkn genius, I never studied for anything and constantly performed at the top of my class in practically all subjects aside from french and pe. Now I can definitely notice I do a little bit better than others with the same or less amount of studying, but it's pretty scary to see my natural intelligence slowly go away. I only really know like a few people who were super smart around that time that still are as effortlessly smart.
@@IOwnKazakhstan Not necessarily. Maybe you don't do well within this current system. Smart people have existed since the dawn of time, industrialization has only been around for 200 years give or take. Perhaps you're more free-spirited and the constraints of the bureaucracy cause you to lose motivation or hope because your capacity isn't recognized by it. Might want to look into self-sufficient/off-the-grid living, as many high-intellect people have moved towards doing things their way instead of abiding by the system.
@@IOwnKazakhstanI’ve got a similar story - fluently reading for my own entertainment at 3, speed reading out loud as fast senior students when I was in 1st grade, primary school math was a breeze as I had an innate understanding of basic algebra (like the level that’s applicable in everyday life regardless of age). I was constantly praised as a freakin genius and everyone thought I was gonna go far 😂 Low and behold - since middle school I was doing average at best of times. When we had to memorise formulas, poems off by heart (if this sounds weird, that’s the education system in Ukraine for you), geographic locations on a map and historical names & dates - 🧠💨💩… Got kicked out of one uni and barely finished another after repeating half the subjects in my degree. I was labeled lazy and a massive disappointment for wasting my own potential since I was 10, when in reality I had adhd with poor long-term memory, which only got diagnosed when I was nearly 30 and living in Australia. Something‘a gotta give 😂
My smarts, resolution and creativity made me a favourite through primary grades, and got me into a lot of trouble in high school. I ended up in an alternate program. Wasted a year there (I was not disruptive, but I questioned everything and the faculty ran out of answers), so I begged my way back into regular high school and resolved to do what I had to do to get my Dogwood. My dad and I started a business the spring I graduated high school. Probably the best thing that could have happened to me. Six years in, and one of my brothers joined us. He had always been a sharp knife as well, had gone on to one successful career, but was attracted to our industry.
Thirty years later, I am successful, mortgage free, have my retirement looked after, and make my own schedule, which is mainly devoted to the animal non-profit I sit on the board of.
Business offers a huge challenge. As the world and economy changes, we have to change. Our father passed away a few years ago, and we’ve continued on, as strong as ever. I am the creative, passionate influence and my brother is the down to earth numbers guy, and it’s a fruitful, complimentary partnership.
Too often you’re pushed to “go to school” when what you really wanna do is live life and be challenged. I was fortunate to have someone in my younger life who had been there and done that; my dad. He pushed me to get my hands dirty, put in a seventy hour work week, and build something I’m incredibly proud of. It’s still a lot of work, but it’s our deal, our decisions, our mistakes, our successes, OUR lives.
Whenever I tell someone "had a high IQ" they make fun of me. I was tested as a kid when I got into the gifted programs. It was extremely high. What I didn't know was that I had ADHD which got worse as I got older- wasn't diagnosed til last year. I'm incredibly intelligent for sure- but concentration and memorization plays a huge part in these tests. (which quickly evaporated with each passing year. Also an IQ just measures your ability to learn. If it's not fostered- you just got alot of raw material and alot of regrets. I honestly would have rather had the ADHD diagnosis as a kid. Wouldve helped alot more than just knowing I had alot of potential.
Well this sounds like a recipe for depression at age 7
Her family: *mixes ingredients aggressively*
Yes. Most young geniuses will burnout and get discouraged when they hit a wall, because they were unstopable until then, and they are still emotionally not intelligent enough to deal with failure.
@@juliakercsmar6587 that's what societies like Mensa try to prevent. Burning out of talent due to their own expectations of their abilities
Not necessarily. Nobel Prize winners did not get 160+ IQs as adults, but as children. What would cause depression is having an IQ over 145 and not knowing why you are different. A "genius" would score 145 or over. This is 3 standard deviations above the mean. Only 1% of the population score 145 and over. Over 160 means that this girl is an extraordinary genius.
True she may find it awkward in school with children who either do not see what she sees or children who have to work hard to learn. But she will know why she is different and it will probably not worry her.
I attended one large meeting of Mensa when I joined in 1967 or so. And indeed some Mensa members were very odd people. What surprised me were the number of underachievers I met. I never attended another meeting and let my membership lapse.
I concluded that many personal qualities are more important than IQ. Nurture is as important as IQ and that depends on how children are raised by their parents and teachers and other members of the community.
Recall that some of the most wanted criminals and terrorists have high IQs. The highly intelligent wrongdoers tend to avoid getting caught.
@@juliakercsmar6587 No evidence for this.
Girl: plays with duolingo
Narrator: *an *ADULT APP**
lino Spanish or Vanish
@@pikamoomoo 😆
I just checked on play store and it says duolingo is for everyone...
3rd grade me: uh... That was an adult app?
They say it like it’s mature content
When I was 3 I swallowed a flower and had to go to the hospital..
PuppyPerso n haha
When I was 3 I was watching Dragon Tales and playing with Barbies
When I was 3 I broke my grandmas cane
When I was 3 I was always vomiting and in the hospital 24/7
Elmo J. Trump I got gum stuck up my nose and put a popcorn kernel in my sisters ear
every time I see the case of a child who is called a genius, I think about the pressure that child will have throughout their life to constantly prove that they're the best, and if things change over time, they will feel like a failure and feel like they let everyone around them down. Hope she has a good life in the future.
yeah i worry ab her burning out 🙁 im not AS smart as her ofc but the same thing happened to me
Yes. Same worry. Parents and teachers start expecting more than is realistic and insisting it is their place to do better. The moment you can't perform better or maybe even fail at something it's easily depression and suicidal thoughts. Treat the brain with respect just like the organs of the body. Don't overwork it. And work towards proper brain health. Meet with psychologists, physiatrists, and other experts to assist in this.
@@SiimKoger Yes. I'm making a general statement not about this family specifically.
Exactly, same here
Your worries are valid. That is precisely what happens to the vast majority of us.
"She's smarter than Mom and Dad..." Correction: She has the potential for greater intelligence than her parents. They still have more knowledge than her due to experience and education, but when she gets to their age she will have much more if she keeps with this upswing. Having a great ability to learn does not mean one has already learned.
smart and intelligent are synonyms. Knowledge is completely separate and has nothing to do with the word "smart".
She is smarter... she speaks Spanish fluently, and doesn’t use words out of context, so she is able to apply things more accurately than her parents. They even said she corrects them. Her parent obviously know more from learning through experience, but if you were to put her and her parents in a room and teach them something, the daughter would retain and be able to apply the new information more accurately... also a side note an IQ is an intelligence quotient which to tone it down it basically it is measuring how smart you are with a number, so if her parents is lower than hers then that means she is smarter.
ok captain obvious
👨🏿🏭
The keeping with it part is important. I was like her as a child, but after being raised by a drug dealer and an alcoholic, I'm definitely no genius as an adult.
"Shes smarter than her parents"
"She has a 5th grade reading level"
Not a good look for the parents lol.
Get Ass no, they said that she was telling them a 20-25 page book from memory. She wasn’t reading a book for 25 year olds. During the interview, she was reading a book that is geared towards little kids. Actually I’ve never heard of a book designed for a particular age because a book for 25 year olds would be a typical, adult book.
@@spottedtime Lol...books for exclusively 25 year olds 😅👍
No no it said she reads 25 books 25 times.
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Get Ass I’ll be 25 next month, I hope someone will buy me one of those books for my birthday!
When I was 3 I slipped on a LEAF and broke my FEMUR
Libby the Nature girl LOLLLLLLL
Hahahaha this beats the try- hards
I learnt to read at 2, look at me now, non Mensa
Okay I'll admit that is really impressive
Any what does IQ has to do with clumsiness?
Its been 9 years, now we need a "where are they now" video to see if shes still in mensa
The word "Mensa" means being stupid in Spanish, if you tell a Mexican female you are very Mensa, it means you are very stupid
@@Tyler-hs9eu she probably just started kindergarten😂
questioning whether she's "still" in Mensa? (you don't lose the membership because the brain's still the same) - try making another one (a clever one, this time)
also, you have her name in the description. Use google.
@@webgpu i honestly dont care that much, do something more meaningful with your time
Actually sometimes I feel like life just made me dumb and I was smarter as a kid
Morgan Lemons same?
EXAAAACTLY.
I never thought of it that way...
I will adopt this theory and feel better about myself now
Thank u sir
Thank u
I blame the internet
Morgan Lemons same?
As a child who skipped grades in grade school, I would definitely advise the parents to try to get her into a school environment that is as normal as possible. Being moved ahead was very damaging to my ability to socialize. Adults can be years apart yet have no difficulty relating to one another but children who are just 2 years apart are worlds apart in social development. I was bullied mercilessly and it permanently affected my ability to make friends and feel comfortable around people my own age. There are many different kinds of intelligence. Mental I.Q. is only one. Moral intelligence and social intelligence are others. A person needs a balance of all of these to be whole. My sister always resented me because she had to work harder in school. But she managed decent grades and was inducted into the National Honor Society. I breezed through school without having to learn discipline while she developed skills that would serve her well later in life. She finally got a Masters degree at the age of 45 and is now a school principle. My point here is that intelligence isn’t everything. I admire my sister for her perseverance and hard work and also for what she has accomplished.
props to you and it seems that your are book smart and street smart from what youre saying here. You sound like a good person and I hope life after school has been good to you. I despise bullying and Ive noticed that people who get bullied go two ways, one is they bully others on revenge for what they went through and the other is they use it as a moral compass to achieve great things and prevent bullying
I can relate in two ways... 1) I skipped 4th grade. While I was intellectually ready there was so much more of me that was not. 2) My father’s IQ is in that top percentage. I appreciate the fact that he always felt the responsibility of going to work and providing financially for his family. But he was a terrible father. He was always “checked out” and living in his own fantasy world. My mother had to raise 2 girls and 3 boys with no other help from him. Not the best childhood but not the worst. 🤷♀️
@M Shultz - I think every child has different needs, its not as black and white as some people may think it is. I was accepted into Mensa when I was seven years old with an IQ of 157. My mother did not let me attend, because she wanted me to have a normal life and be socialized (as you suggested. That was the worst parenting decision she could have ever made on my behalf. I needed to be around children who were exceptional like me, because it would have allowed me to feel less ostracized from society. I was bullied on a daily basis for being more advanced than my classmates (I was not allowed to skip grades).
My Intelligence made me a target at school and over time, it psychologically conditioned me to believe that I was abnormal and it created a life time battle with self confident issues that effected every area of my life as an adult. I begged my mom every day for permission to be homeschooled, because I could always focus better if I was alone. The answer was always "No," and I was told that I just needed to suck it up and learn how to adapt to the school environment like everybody else. I learned how to adapt be pretending to be stupid, because that was the only way I could make friends at school. I became quiet and withdrawn and eventually even sucidal. The self confidence issues, developed into an 18 year battle with an eating disorder that almost took me life.
The point, is that if every parent of a brillant child was to take the same approach/perspective that you are suggesting, it could potentially ruin the child's life permanently. The problem is that children who are born with an extremely high IQ, are very self aware! They know what is best for them, more then the parents do, yet their needs and desires are not taken into consideration due to their age. My, potential was robbed not because of my intelligence, but because of the way that society percieves how children should be dealt with. My story, is not a unique one and I'm sure thier are other brilliant children in the world who suffered, due to the ignorance of thier parents. Humans need to learn from their mistakes, instead of repeating the same old patterns!
@@cg3560 Their are other ways to socialize a child, other than forcing them to attend school. Sports, Dance, Art, etc. These are only a few examples of extra curricular activities that a child can partipate in, inoder to become properly socialized. Maturity, is a whole other topic and it is related to both life experiences and 'emotional intelligence', which is not tested on the IQ test.
Some children like myself, are old souls. Meaning, that we incarnate with a much more serious approach to life in general, because our souls have lifetimes of experience under belts. We do not need a 'tour guide', which is basically what a parent is for children like myself. If, you have a child that has an IQ of 145 or higher, they are not going to be interested in the same things that a normal child would be. In, other words they don't need guidance, they need support.
For, example: when I was nine years old, I could read and write at a 10 grade level. I was spending most of my spare time writing novels and studying psychology, while the other children my age were only interested in playing video games and talking about pokemon. I had no idea what pokemon even was, nor could I care less. The truth, is that children like me had nothing in common with kids my age. Most of my friends growing up, were 20 years older than me, only because I could have political debates with them...that would other wise be impossible with a child who was the same age as me.
I get where your coming from, but like I said before, their is no one size fits all modality for children who do not fit the traditional mold, of how a child is 'expected' to act and conform to society.
After skipping grades myself, I agree with this 100%.
When you guess at an IQ test and you get them* all correct.
I think the way it works is if you get the first however many right, it kicks the questions up a notch in difficulty. If you keep getting them right, they keep getting harder, if you get one wrong it stays the same level I believe.
KING OF DRIP we found one
I noticed that I spelled the word "them" incorrectly (I typed then instead) facepalm
@@croconana0571 you simple fool, basic grammar escapes your feeble mind.
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This video is 9 years old. This girl is 12 now. I'm curious how her life has unfolded since this video.
Great question!
crack addict?
She's just a random girl. You can't determine IQ until at least 5 years old.
She is currently in deep space commanding a fleet of intergalactic science vessels.
Yes
The funny thing here is that Mensa in Spanish means stupid or dumb
*Edit* ok ok, I wrote this comment a while ago and i still get replies of people saying is wrong. Mensa is the feminine form of a Mexican slang that means dumb, so maybe some Spanish speakers might be confused since the word isn’t used in their country or in the way they learned Spanish. Just to clarify :D
Btw, thank you so much for the likes
Dance moms Fan 2806 ikr 😂🤡
🤣🤣🤣yee
Dance moms Fan 2806 yeah hahaha
Lol funny
In german it means canteen
We all know she's getting accepted to Harvard
shes probably in there rn
Princeton
Only thing stopping her from being literally having a much too overpowered body and mind is the athlean x training system on RUclips with peak fitness and nutrition.
IIJxckieII or oxford
Or Stanford
i feel like being told at 3 years of age that you are more intelligent (or at least have the potential to be) than 99%+ of the population could be potentially problematic down the road, in regards to character development. hopefully, her high IQ also comes with high self-awareness/humility as well.
You're right. That's how supervillians are created, lol...
When you are a kid IQ tests measure the development stage in acquiring intelligence, she has done very well on 3 yo IQ tests. She was not smarter than an average 7 years old. This only means that she developed really fast, not that she is really smart.
Since this video was made in 2014, now she is 11, and I bet now she is a really good student at school, not a genius better than 99.9%.
This was a marketing stunt for Mensa, some very subjective parents, and a very precocious little girl, nothing more.
very true
There are many young musician prodigies who we see have long public careers. The young academic prodigies are rarely seen again after the initial media blitz. All young prodigies have in common active involved parents who search for the best teachers to continue advancing the child's abilities and connections within the particular field of interest.
Her parents seems pretty down to earth, dont want her skipped to much so shes with kids her age and stuff.
This is an incredible little girl. All the information I know about geniuses is that they often fail in life because of the social aspect! Keep her emotions and social interactions paramount.
I hope she learns emotional skills. She'll need a therapist. It's like having a shed full of tools and have no clue how to use.
Yeah like dumb people are somehow more equipped to handle their emotions.
@@AnalyticalReckoner I'm speaking from experience. I know quite a handful of very intelligent children who grew up not knowing how to handle their skills - became depressed, anxious, felt alone, had to cope with very high expectations from people, and feeling very isolated/different from everyone else. I meant that well, by the way. I realize my original statement sounded negative. My apologies for that. I am hopeful she will have all the support to ensure her success in life. ^_^
Omnis Imperator hey depression is higher in smart people it’s a fact
parthesky omg I use to have a shed full of tools 🧰 had no idea how to use them sold them at a loss
@Dusty that's bullshit bro, as long as you dont have, say, aspergers or something like that, being intelligent won't ruin your emotional development (in fact you might be better with emotions than regular folk). But it is correlated with depression and anxiety so there's that
This girl was probably doing the Pythagorean Theorem in the womb to try and triangulate the best possible way to be born
Or saying pi (digits not the word) as her first word.
Pythagorean theorem is for level one crooks, she probably used law of sines or cosines
You made me laugh 😂, thank you!
😂😂😂😂
Erik Satie true but it’s was just a fetus at the time
but IQ is based on age.....so she is smarter than 99.9% of 5 year olds....
+Savingtheplanet shes 3
So 99.9% of 3 year olds.....
+Savingtheplanet Thank you, I've already lost faith in humanity but I thought this was general knowledge. Let's see if she's still got an IQ that high in 10 years..... *sigh* she probably will, people are getting stupider.
exactly what i'm saying?? iq is your mental age divided by your chronological age times 100. so in order for her iq to be over 160, her mental age would only have to be 6. also, the iq tests designed for children are very different from adult tests, so they are completely wrong in saying she's smarter than her parents.
And that 00.1 percent is Briella. Heh 😉😏
At the age of 12 to 18 months, she was reciting books with 25 pages? That is amazing! I've never seen a baby speak so clearly at this age group.
Thats bc other children have social lives.
@@citizencoy4393oof
She couldn't even read properly in the video... I swear it's BS
I mean it’s good that she’s smart but you don’t want her growing up thinking that she is better than everyone.
my iq is 42 and i dont even brag
america out here encouraging asian parental mindsets like
They'll tell everyone she is, and then they'll think they're better than everyone because they had her, and she'll be a huge spoiled snob when she grows up.
My iq is 20 I am the most intelligent person
Yeah I watch Rick and Morty and you don't see me bragging 🙃
Mensa in Spanish means stupid. (edit: thanks for the likes! to clarify I know Mensa means dumb technically in Spanish sorry to confuse anyone. (Spanish is my native tongue even though my name clearly does not reflect that) but I just said stupid because dumb and stupid are synonyms and I didn’t think it would matter much since it’s about the same meaning just different word. I apologize again for any confusion.
Exactly I noticed that to and was laughing 😂😂😂
Her reaction when she got that card “IM NOT MENSA!!!! 😭😭😭😭” when
Yeah lol 😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣
YEET 😂
Haha
My next door neighbor, when I was three, was a three year old boy who read the newspaper. I went through twelve grades of public school with him, and he remained the smartest kid in our very large school, all the way until graduation. We are 70 now. He is my oldest friend.
:')
God bless you both during the pandemic! 🙏🏽
So what did he do with himself? Some of the smartest kids I knew in school bombed out later. The really smart ones don't make a big deal about their intelligence. They just one day do something incredible and act like it's no big deal.
@@amywalker7515 well I made myself to be smart
cor wish i had that kind of long term friendship
A lot of this feels like this ability to have a good memory.
Yeah, a lot of it is memory. Other major components that go into factoring IQ levels are things like problem solving, critical thinking, examining, interpreting, comprehension, evaluating, reasoning, etc... But yes, memory is certainly a big part of it! :)
Specifically working memory is a big component.
Was thinking that too.. Like, have her do some Math, then we'll talk.
my grandchildren were the same at 2 years old ...
She clearly was exposed to Rick and Morty at some point in her childhood.
if only i knew them when i was that young
Elly Stange i knew there would be this comment
Just gave u your 700th like
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Probably in prenatal development
if she's so fluent in Spanish, she should translate mensa
Exactly my thought
BAHAHA
*3 year old genius accepted into stupid*
dan iel LMAOOO
Irony!
“Also fluent in Spanish.” She’s learning the phrase, “ustedes son hombres” which means “you are men” in Spanish, not even close to fluency. I don’t mean for this to be negative, her intelligence is impressive, but part of this just isn’t true.
Does she say it like a 3 year old tho? I doubt any 3 yr can pronounce stuff correctly..
Yeah.
I think they mean she speaks Spanish just as good (w an English accent but that makes sense) as she speaks English. Neither her English nor Spanish sounds good bc she still is a 3-year-old
Arianna Maria I doubt it. As a Duolingo user if she is just at the stage of learning, “ustedes son hombres” she definitely hasn’t done many lessons. I bet she wouldn’t be able to say, “can I use my new doll” in spanish.
download duolingo they have you say odd phrases when you are learning... smh dissing a three year old without even looking into it 😂
I hope her parents stayed humble about it, and didn't brag to everyone about her abilities. At 18 months, I learned how to read, and at 3 1/2 years old I learned how to write. My mom would continuously tell me that I was smarter than everyone, and it ended up making me tell everyone at my preschool that I was better than them. It eventually lead to me not having any friends until I moved away in the 3rd grade.
@@froggo_cat so how are v hou now OK I hope
I hope your are doing ok now. I was skipped a couple of times, and had a hard time socially for sure.
Everyone gangsta till the school system makes her clinically depressed at age 7
Like half the kids in the school system who either got bored, or stopped liking stuff! Fun for the world!
Calista Patrick clearly you dropped out of elementary school.
Because your grammar skills are that of a 2nd graders.
@@teteeheeted When you're so competent and cocky to the point where you'll much rather make fun of someone's spelling instead of undermining the point they're making.
@@teteeheeted also, perfect grammar isn't everything, you can still be successful and set your own standards even without said skill.
Shiro take a joke, everybody has their own toxicity, and I have mine.
She's the chosen one to defeat Duolingo Owl
I cant even beat a lvl of duolingo with everything right and im in 6th grade
🤣🤣🤣
underrated comment 😂💀
@@ItsJxyyFR That's sorta sad--
Ok she’s like super smart but learning Spanish on Duolingo is not fluency
Sasho my thoughts exactly as a bilingual person
You simply cannot learn grammar with those apps (and therefore fluency), I seriously doubt she would understand anything about grammar without taking some sort of language class. Languages are extremely complicated, from the gender of words, the tenses, and everything in between.
Totally Not Summer Morrison yes exactly and although she is v Intelligent I doubt anyone age 3 can comprehend all that without a native speaker in the family
Same
@Totally Not Summer Morrison Coming from someone who is bilingual in two languages, I legit died inside when she was using an app. Apps don’t teach you about how different they sound depicting on the situation, and they don’t teach you about slang, which is really important when talking in a different language since most people use slang or less formal words.
My sister was just like this at Alexis's age, now shes a write/director
She could literally point out anywhere you mentioned on the globe, and capitals too
This girl will go far
Add a t to the end of far.
being able to mention capitals isnt hard, its just a memory game, not an intellect one
@@chaska8144 well good for you that you feel the need to degrade anyone for thinking a child is smart. Especially a 3 year old that hasn't been through SCHOOLING yet
Nobody will ever be as intelligent as YOU, OH random troll.
PS you're massive ego is showing.
@@chaska8144 shes 3, she hasn't even been through school yet. Take your ego and jealousy down a knotch
@@SparkleP8nter when I was 3 I memorised all my times tables, your sister aint special friendo
they never interviewed the child tho.. just saying dont believe everything you hear or see.
Exactly.
Yeah doesn't seem super smart
Yeah, really.
your IQ isn't exactly how smart you are. its more of how easily you're able to learn and what you're capable of learning. it also deals with the way you perceive most things. though they didn't interview the child, they still said she was "fluent" in Spanish and can memorize decent sized books in one day is incredible for someone of her age. the speed that she is able to learn seems to be far more advanced than almost all children her age. (and a LOT of adults)
@@ronanbreckenridge7929 they SAID
“Alexis is fluent in Spanish”
Then she would know that Mensa means stupid in Spanish lmao
that's why it's called mensa...
Pft u right
😆that’s what I was saying 😂🤣
It means message..?
@@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828 "Mensaje" means message.
“She’s smarter than 99% of people”
“The reading level of a 5th grader”
@Papi Kink Yeah you
@Papi Kink I honestly don't know how to respond to this...
She’s three tho
@Papi Kink I don't understand how you typed this out without feeling completely stupid and you forgot a "huh?" At the end don't come at me with the "bet you feel stupid" I don't think I'm more or less intelligent then others.
@Papi Kink "Ye u" is a meme, so why go to a personal attack on @Ailluele? Did your precious feelings get hurt aw poor you.
She reminds me of my little girl. She is three and can speak Spanish, Russian, Greek, Latin (and more) reads books beyond her age range containing three syllable words. Corrects me on species of animals, shades of colours ect and has an impeccable memory. She's just so clever
WHAT?! Your girl is amazing!! When I was 4 I was cutting my bangs off cause I saw katy perry do it in a music video and thought she was crying because it hurt. 😭
And I'm here crying over 10th grade math homework
Painfully relatable.
Armyb✔😎
Ana Lucia Mendes me too i will pay her to do my homework and tests
I still cant do long division 😂
J Hoe don't worry I'm not smarter than a 5th Grader
I love the fact that she’s making us all feel horrible...
Edit: Thanks so much for all the likes!
MachineWashable101 RIGHT
MachineWashable101 ikr
MachineWashable101 I was trying not to be mean so I wrote what I could do at three
Be the stupidest person known to man kind
She's not making me feel horrible at all, she's very cute and still a 3 years old even if she has very good cognitive abilities.
Kaepora Gaebora do you don’t feel the slightest bit dumb?
i had a hard time understanding what she was saying. She seemed to be just a normal 3 year old.
Because IQ is measured compared to the average, and for kids that's the average for your age. Also it's measured using tests and puzzles which people are known to get better at with practice (in fact the original inventer of the IQ test never intended it to be used to permanently label people). So basically '3 year old with 160 IQ' just means a 3 year old that's doing puzzles that average 4 or 5 year olds do. Also there's no way of knowing if she'll keep being ahead for her age.
some kids are really smart, this one in particular is lucky enough to have caring parents and to have been tested. So, she'll hopefully get the right education. I do wonder how many kids out there don't have those opportunities.
DrZarkloff I think she is just learning how to speak. This girl is so smart and incredible. I was reading in a fifth grade level when I was in 3rd grade and she is only 3!
celest s you are right. Some kids in this planet don't get an education and people with access to education take it for granted. We complain about so much but we don't think about the other people. Go watch IISuperwomanII's RUclips video on her life changing experience in Kenya. BTW, she is also known as Lilly Singh.
Yeah I'm really confused. My daughter said her first word at 3 months old and said over 100 words by the time she was one, no joke. Now she's 2 and she says full sentences and you can understand her almost perfectly. My daughter also knows a lot of Spanish words and can count and knows full lyrics to songs and can draw faces. Shes not close to being 3 either. Her birthday is in November. Although my daughter couldn't remember pages and pages of stories. Small ones yeah, like Brown bear Brown bear. What does an IQ test test any way? I haven't taken one.
"She's way smarter than mum and dad"...lol no. Her 160 IQ is in the top 2% for her AGE. 160 child IQ is not equivalent to 160 adult IQ, because scores are only comparable on a percentile basis not an absolute basis. I'm not saying this to dunk on her. She's a very bright and gifted little girl and I hope she goes far in life, but for goodness sake newscasters, she's still *three*
Well actually, 12 now...but you get my point.
As someone who also started reading books around two, and the daily newspaper at three, I think an option to be considered for kids who are at a cognitively higher level than their peers is to keep them at the age - appropriate grade level at school, but to challenge them intellectually at home. It's not a cutesy movie trope to have kids grow up in an emotionally mismatched or toxic environment. It may mess them up for life.
They need to be in a school that maximizes their potential. I was lucky enough that while I was not skipped grades, I was allowed to work at my own pace in many subjects. for example in second grade I did both 2nd and 3rd grade math. That allowed me in 3rd grade to jump ahead and do grades 4, 5 and 6.
I disagree. Kids don't conform to one size fits all. Higher functioning kids tend to need to keep feeding their knowledge. Some are concentrated to specific areas of interest while others are generalized but regardless there is a need for this and if it's not fulfilled, poses other issues which could be mild or severe; depending on the child. keeping a child at grade level will not satisfy their own learning needs. There is no reason they can't be placed in a learning environment at their academic level but that can fulfill their social and emotional needs as well.
I disagree. Her gift must be celebrated and nurtured. I would never allow my intellectually gifted child in a regular school. She needs a private tutor. School will do nothing but set her back. Schools are cesspools of stupidity and immorality anyhow.
As a mom to a kid who taught herself tp read at 2, I refuse to jump her ahead. She needs social and emotional development...that is not accelerated like her IQ is
@@charlottemiller7675 Same here. My son went to a Montessori school where he had his fellow classmates at his age level and older children in his classroom. This type of classroom was ideal for ny son as it satisfied his social skills and his higher level academic need. He's 21 now. Best decision I made for him.
She: learned Spanish by herself at age 3
Me: ate mud at age 3
Lol and made mud pies
Me 23: still eating dirt, I don’t care too much for mud anymore. Too many carbs
Wow! I didn't graduate to mud until I was at least three and a half - and that was by accident!
Children learn new languages very easily
That's like level one of Duolingo lol that doesn't make someone fluent. It's also not just an app for adults, news conflating it.
She's probably around nine right now. I wonder how she's doing
(edit: to the people correcting me: I made this comment months ago, in January of 2021, she was probably not ten when I commented, unless you specifically know when her birthday is, stop correcting me.)
I hope she doesn't feel under pressure.
Was just thinking the same
@@zerozeroeszeroed She's not stupid. She probably knows that being so extremely intelligent is a huge responsibility.
@@MrCmon113 no she’s not stupid at all but honestly the school system probably made her super depressed.
Maybe she can solve the pandemic and save the world
Her at 3: gets accepted to Mensa
Me at 3: doesn't even know how to hold the pencil properly
is your pfp eve wakamiya's wedding card with honami's face LOLL
seems fake to me-- why would they interview the parents so much and not interview her?
edit: I get that she's 3, stop responding with "she's 3"
exactly, she can talk for gods sake
Because she is a child.
She's 3
@@Sbosch123 so? If she's smarter than her parents she could at least speak on camera for a moment
@@RacecarsAndRicefish IQ is based around a test that uses age as factor in determining the final score. So may that it be she has a high IQ for her age, it doesn't necessarily mean that she has well developed social skills for her age.
How did they test her? With a foam map? Surely some math and/or logic was in there....
Dallas yes, IQ test. How did they make her sit there for >30 minutes looking at the figures and exclude one not matching(i.e.)?
Dallas Yep, I got tested when I was 4. I skipped 1 grade later. I am not a genius, just little above average
@@dankie8617 you got 50 for your IQ test
@@v6790 Yeah sure
Dankprincess how old are you now (approximately)? I am 53, IQ tested in 8th grade 124, I still had issues with the volume of school work in high school. When not burdened by volume of work, I can do a lot higher skilled stuff. Started with nothing, net worth approaching $5M. I think it is IQ related to put off pleasure, plan, and invest.
"Adult app"
Duolingo is for most ages. A toddler reading at a 5th grade level could easily use it. There is even a classrooms feature.
Theodore Wolf and a duolingo kids app
@Quinzel Sabina 🤗🤩
@Quinzel Sabina you probably shouldn’t have said don’t judge me. Now people are going to judge and be rude to you. Just know they for future reference.
@Lauren Idc I’m 10 too :O
And I use Duolingo when I was 7 ye I know a lot of Russian.
I’m Arabian but know English more than most people.
Every parent I know in my neighbourhood claims their average child is a genius.
Every parent does that.
I’m a young child with 160+ IQ and whenever my parents tell me I’m Intelligent or bright, especially considering my age, I think they may be lying, due to having trust issues for this exact reason. I go in public, have small and short conversations, and boom, everybody tells my parents, “Oh, your daughter is so smart!”
I don’t believe it.
When I go to my guitar lessons,
The owner of the store which I play in, and my teacher, both tell me “She’s a genius” and all of that.
I tell myself, “Oh, it’s because they’re getting paid. Otherwise, they wouldn’t make these claims.”
I will tell you this;
I’ve finally stopped believing it’s something biased. Especially because my dad is a brutally honest individual, and he’s told me whether something I did was good or not in kind ways, even if it’s a truth that my brother or I wouldn’t like to hear. He’s got an IQ of 160+, too. He still says I’m a genius. If you have children yourself, Sir, raise them similarly to that in that certain aspect. Brutal honesty should never hurt a child, because it ends up helping them in the end.
You should be using your high IQ to cure cancer.@@extrememetalhead
@@extrememetalheadno need to brag kiddo
how bout u use your iq for something good instead of writing essays for no one @@extrememetalhead
@@Ikhaatnatuurkundw he doesnt even have an iq of 160, he probably took some phony online test on google and believed it
*Plays Duolingo Basics 3 on iPad* "She is fluent in Spanish". Fake news
Kyle Struthers she’s 3
~Donald Trump 2k18 *fake news*
Seriously. And I’m pretty sure the phrase she says is “you are a boy” using the formal “you” which actually makes no contextual sense.
Craig Cox she’s saying you are men
Craig Cox it says u r a man
I am not sure she is smarter than 99.9% of the world. IQ test usually test in relation to your age group. At 160 she is more intelligent than 99.99% of those tested in her age group not of all who have been tested. And what test/s did they do to evaluate her?
Veridicus Maximus You are right, a three year old with an IQ of 160 just have an intelligence of an average 8 years old. so by no mean smarter than 99.9% of the population not is she smarter than her parents.
She prob isn’t smarter than 99.9%, more like 99.99%
She was graded by the experts who assess the people in MENSA. I am sure they know what they are doing.
Ihopeyouenjoyedreadingthisridiculouslylongusernamehaveaniceday) Yeah the Mensa people do but the reporters however don't know much about the tests. Your IQ is always measured in comparison to your age group, so no this kid isn't smarter than 99,9% of the population, she is smarter than 99,9% of 3-year olds. These X-year old and already in Mensa or X-year old and already IQ of X news are flawed for that very reason, a kid with an IQ of 140 is just as common as an adult with an IQ of 140'
If she got into MENSA that means they did some seriously good tests bcuz it's almost impossible to get in that society.
They didn't really allow us to see her skills in this clip.
Yeah, just a 3year old kid and a lot of exaggerations
@@sweetgirl070707 lies she was accepted into mensa meaning tested, she's definitely gifted.
Christian Pepole But...they didn't show her skills. :/ Cool, she got into Mensa, how, exactly? It's just kind of a useless clip. All they said was that she got into Mensa repeatedly...
Also, I just can't with your username- The spelling, the _Christian_-
@@zerozeroeszeroed lmao they don't have to give u any proof
Gabriela Suárez Díaz Okay, well, umm...this clip was literally just useless. If they actually wanted to make something out of this, they would allow us to see her skills and they would make it worth it. That's literally just going against the whole point of the video. -.-
I have never gotten my oldest son tested but he has always been so bright! He waved at the word “hi” at 10 months old.. could count 1-10 in Spanish and French before he was even 2 .. wanted to be a paleontologist in preschool .. and so many other things that were very shocking to me and his father! We were both considered gifted as children as well so our two brains together seemed to make this extremely smart child! We never pushed him tho bc we want him to live a normal life and not be held to these high standards.. we also homeschooled him for 6 years. He now is back in public school at 15 and is top of his class of 442 students! It’s so interesting to see your child excel so easily, but most people are doubtful and sometimes even offended when you brag about your child! Every kid is different and we should all be proud of their individual achievements!
She’s not “a three year old at heart”. She’s a three year old. What the father said near the end about keeping her social life normal is so important.
My cousin repeated a grade, told me the bright side was he was the oldest dude for those younger girls 😂😂
I wonder.....will she ever make "stupid mistakes" like most teenagers? She will never know the mainstream "normal" childhood.
There ain't no social life for her. She can't communicate with her peers. Kids at her age believe in Santa, play with mud, dolls, and tiny cars; for her, that's unbearably boring. People with that IQ level need to find their peers who are at their level. The fact that she is a girl is not really the best, as in general, men want to dominate, to lead, and will discriminate her as a way to protect their fragile ego. I hope things will change soon enough so she won't become an adult in a society where people rather envy or hate people like her, than appreciate and try to follow their step or be great in other ways.
@@Gamerlife-cv2tn you gringos are weird, one of the smartes brain in our astro phisic class, was a theorial math student, and we always prize her for her intelligence and flawless theorical math understanding and application
At those high lvls that discrimination doesnt exist, unless she goes for lesser careers like sociology, law, politics, etc, but as long as she keeps her way among true smart people (hard science) she wont experience that discrimination
Smart kids "a priori" will never have a "normal" life per say, and shouldn't, they arent average, they sre very self aware, like for example, soon she will start doing complex math and understand the laws of physics so she will say things to her parents like "i have go to the conclusion that santa doesn't exist according to the laws of physics and human mythology" at age 4 or 5
So forcing her into a normal kids life is detrimental, just let her be, give her what she needs, and adapt to the way she sees the world and experience it
When I was 2 I beat super mario 64
and my dad *didn't* help
Quite the accomplishment.
You, sir, have an I.Q. of over 10030582
How many 0.5 A presses did you use? Only then can you impress me.
😂
Thats actually impressive
Mensa: accepts people with 140 + IQ
People with an IQ of 139: ...
K A A S it is? I swear they had a lower acceptance rate.
@@lulai7870 in Hungary they have it at 130, I thought it had to be that way everywhere so I don't know who's right now
I know! Mine is 138. I died a little bit. It's okay--I still have all of the social awkwardness of a genius.
Me when my gifted test come back one percentile below what I need for 2 of the tests lol
Actually Mensa accepts people with 130-132IQ (98th percentile).
Her mom is fire! And her daddy is so proud! Love this family!
News: Top 2%
Also news: better than 99.9%
This whole video is literally a meme
Cedar Tallman. Welllllll
They said Mensa's criterion is top 2%, whereas she is smarter than 99.9% of the population. There's no contradiction. Maybe pay attention more instead of trying so damn hard to be funny?
@@marredcheese that said, she's going to outgrow Mensa by middle school.
Hahahahaha
When I was 3 I choked on a lego
I choked on one yesterday aswell
I broke my arm at 2
😂😂 I shouldn’t be laughing at this lmfao💀
When I was 3 I refused to eat anything but cheerios.
When I was 3 I bit my sister and drank chocolate milk instead of actual milk
All i saw was a 3 year old rolling around the floor giggling like...I was waiting for her to recite hamlet or something.
Good one!
i didn't understand what was meant in this video.
Putting together puzzles...hardly even showed her talking in the video. Apparently she was smart enough to be accepted into Mensa, they just didn't really show that in the video.
@@zerozeroeszeroed | I agree. I just saw a three year old child, her parents and some news reporters. My niece came over today (she is three as well) and I didn’t see much of a difference. That must just be me though... 😂💀
A J Yeah..I think that the news reporters or whoever filmed it didn't do a very good job because they didn't recite anything that she could do that was above 3-year old level. If she was smart enough to get into Mensa, than she was smart enough to get into Mensa, they just didn't show any great footage of it. If you want to make a video on the news about an above average, smart 3 year old, at least show why the 3 year old is smart-...
I think it's interesting that we worry SO much about 'age-appropriate social development' from K-12 grade, but then expect people to adapt and automatically know how to talk with people from so many different generations in the workplace. I'm such a proponent for multi-age classrooms because I think it helps to socialize kids who may be more cognitively developed and who still need to be socially challenged.
I'm in 11th grade in highschool and there is this 8 year old kid in my grade who spends half the day at highschool then the other half at a college to take math. He's super smart but I also feel bad because he's still soo young and not mature enough so it's hard for him to have friends
*become friends with him ,he probably feels lonely*
I'm guessing he's already moved up. Those kids hustle pretty quickly in academia, they try to get them on the front lines asap. Did you make friends with him?
they recently moved him up to 12th grade its crazy, but yes my friends and I are always super nice to him it must be tough to be that young
Cristina A WELL BE HIS FRIEND
Is his name Sheldon Cooper?
So she's basically Matilda?
😂😂😂😂
What do you mean? She can't move objects with her mind, you dumbfuck.
koningkoe But she can read well, dumbfuck. Actually watch before you comment your sour shit.
Mad Hatter Yea but she was well known for her super natural powers, you piece of garbage.
koningkoe Actually, well known for her knowledge. "piece of garbage".
You turned from an immature kid to an EVEN more immature kid.
With that high of an IQ she could easily understand every joke made in Rick and Morty.
To be fair...
You have to have....
Kathy Simon
Disgusting, begone reddit
superligitguy yup. I only have an iq of 2 so i dont understand any of the jokes on rick and morty. You have to have very high iq to understand the jokes. Its not like its an overrated unfunny show but i wouldnt know cause my iq is too low.
Only some at best
Where she now?
Doesn’t Mensa mean stupid in Spanish
Yup.
Lmao
Stupid woman, to be exact
@Jasmine Bonilla no
The irony is great!
she was probably reciting all the numbers in PI in the womb 😂
@Tucker Cahooter i wonder if she's still reciting it
Mensa in Spanish is dumb 😂
selena 🤣
I know its funny
I was going to comment this same thing lol
Lol
As your grammar
congrats, little girl
And yet I'm here putting my grades up for adoption.....Cus I can't even raise them
nice one
😁😁😁
OMG NICE ONE, lmao
This is one of the most relatable and funniest comment😂
Bella Tobias Lmaoo
*uses duolingo for 2 minutes*
"Alexa is also fluent in Spanish!"
lolll site 😂
i mean in reality you dont need to be super smart to learn any language tbh. I was speaking in Arabic, English and Spanish at the age of 3 lol. If shes good at math then thats impressive
The Legend of Lara its a lot easier for a toddler/young child to learn another language. Its much harder as an adult. I learned french when i was young and was fluent by 7. Where as it took me aaaages to become fluent in italian as a teen/young adult.
marehy LMAO
The Legend of Lara if you learn a language before 12, you'll remember it easier and it will stick in your brain
Test her in 10 years. A 3 year olds iq test is bs
I agree. Before the age of 6 I was able to remember lot of things, I knew all the name of muscles and bones of the human body, I grew up knowing a lot of different words and I had an amazing memory. But I got an OCD with anxiety disorders and a bit of depression and when I became sixteen I went downhill. Now I'm 27 and my memory just never came back as it used to be, sometimes I feel like I was much more intelligent 20 years ago before my mental illness than now. You can never tell.
Agreed. Young kids are fast learners so it could very well be her parents are forcing her to learn these things in order to boast with her intelligence.
My parents barely had any time to spend with me as they were always working, I was always spending time alone in daycare, so neither I or the other kids at the daycare were taught anything at ages infant to kindergarden. Could very well be there was a hyperintelligent kid among us, but at the time it was impossible to know since none of us were stimulated.
Also, a lot of the time, child prodigies just flatten out once they get older.
LadyBakura92 young kids actually have great memory, better than adults.
Yeah, about 90% of all kids who did a IQ screening at young age turned out to have dropped by 15-30 score at follow-up screenings already by the age of 13. Good on her but I think she would do much better in life learning at free will in a normal school instead of getting pushed beyoned the limit the rest of her life because of an inaccurate test she did as a 3 y/o
Yep. As a kid, as in when I was literally like 5, I could speak German, Russian, and Czech fluently because of my family. But one day I just started forgetting words. Can still speak them, but when my dads mum died we kinda just stopped speaking Czech I guess.,,
Wow, for the first thirty years of MY life I struggled to be smarter than my cat. What a fantastic future I hope this family has and God bless this gift given here to perhaps be the one that changes this world for the better. Now's the time we need it more than ever.
I just learned about this but I’m not sure about it but, it doesn’t mean she’s smarter than 99.9% of people in the world. Younger kids have a bigger iq bc their age and mental age is divided and that makes it a higher score on an iq test. I agree she is very very smart. But when people get older like 50 their mental age is also around 50. But when your younger your iq will almost always be higher
do you have a source for that? i couldn't find any articles saying kids iq's are higher than an adult's
@elias im not saying he's lying, i'd like to read on it
elias I thought IQ can’t change by 35 points..
elias | If your IQ went lower you must be a complete idiot 🤣😂
IQ doesn't really work that way. It's based on a normal distribution table meaning it always has to do with how far away you are from the standard (in this case 100). Kids can't really therefore all have a higher IQ than themselves when they are older since the average is based on the average of the people of that age. So if you are perfectly normal you have an IQ of 100. If you then grow up and are still perfectly normal, this being much smarter than yourself when you were a child though, you would still score 100 as everyone else got smarter alongside you.
She’s not smarter than 99.9 percent of people in the world because the majority of those people have NEVER been tested. Don’t get me wrong, she’s obviously very very smart but we don’t know about all the people in the world, only those who have been tested. Hopefully some day she can channel her intellect into solving some of the worlds toughest problems. I wish her the best!
Have you had a conversation with the average person?? 😂😅😓
you can still make an assumption about the population based off a smaller sample...
hes not upset
wrong, there is a bell curve that is predictive of the iq of the population as a whole and predicts the rarity of that iq so yes if she has an iq of 160 or more she is smarter than 99.9 percent of the world pop. lmao you don't need to test every individual to know that.
this requires an IQ of 100 or more to understand.
“Fluent in Spanish”.
I’d love to hear her have a full-blown conversation about maths or animals with a native speaker, if it’s true. Sounds like over exaggeration.
Soda n Sugar She literally said “you are guys” and that is “fluent”
AB
Not quite what I consider “fluent” but alright.
Shes 3. She speaks it as well as english which probally isnt all that great
She does not sound fluent at all, in fact, the way she pronounce the words have a heavy english accent, but she is young and has a big room to learn, hope she is doing okay.
I actually speak english and spanish perfectly bc I live in texas and i also am very close to mexico so rn I couldnt care less about someone who can do that
I wish we could get an update on this story; I really hope this kid is having a great life, and not being held to such an impossible standard that the pressure is too much to bear. She deserves to be happy and free, not treated like some all-knowing oracle of knowledge who's automatically a disappointment if she doesn't deliver on that premise. These incredibly well-learned children sadly always seem to have a tougher time in life.
I am 13 and eating at a college level...
🙌
god damit. you win. here, have my internet cookie for making me laugh.
Johnny Appleseed Really? That's amazing! Keep it up and you'll be eating at University level :)
At least you're a comic genius
Johnny Appleseed a lot of people are, except you cant take college classes at 13, lol when you grow some seeds on that nutsack and dont make shit up, your allowed to talk'
I wouldn't call someome who uses Duolingo "fluent"...
Lady Pandicorn 'fluent' just means that you can hold a conversation in that language. You don't have to know every word to be fluent. JUST SAYING
Lol just because I can hold a conversation in my Spanish Class doesn't mean i'm fluent in Spanish haha
fluent does NOT mean holding a conversation, if so I would be fluent in Chinese after a month into it.
Waldorf Wild that would be called conversational Spanish. To be fluent in Spanish you would have to know more than that app could teach you.
Well she’s 3 so I’m sure her Spanish fluency is comparable to other 3 year old native speakers.
I've taken Spanish for 2 years and I can't even translate things well
Autimations if you really want to learn Spanish classes don't help much, you could check out AJATT/antimoon
Autimations I taken spanish since I was born ( my family is spanish lol)
Autimations it's easier for kids to learn languages, don't beat yourself up
Pendejete
Right I took Spanish for 3 yrs and still only know simple words 😂
She's a lot smarter than the news presenters and whoever wrote their script
I'm sorry, but this little girl was just rolling around reciting countries and Spanish phrases from memory. I've seen RUclipss of 3 year old pianist prodigies and an unsolved mysteries of a 6 year old solving master courses in physics for fun. Put a math problem infront of her and let's see how well she does. MENSA is just passing out those cards lately so they don't die out. Ridiculous.
pikazou actually at 3 yes look up the test Mensa has them for anyone to see. My son scored 156 at the age of 2 which is silly. He’s extremely smart but so is every child with parents who have half a brain.
Thats not how iq tests work. Do your research.
K Tait. Ur just mad because she is smarter than u. Go get a life
@@toadsonytwo Fr tho
A factor of IQ is based upon age. That doesn’t mean she’s literally smarter then her parents. She’s a 3 year old
"she will never be able to go to a normal school"
ngl that sounds sad af :/
I did it everyone there either became nothing or a doctor/lawyer (i became a lawyer).
What is a "normal" school?
@@lavenderware6279 A school where you get to experience the normal stuff like socializing with other kids and not being treated like some extraordinary specimen that should be isolated from the world.
:/ I mean sure, you got all the high knowledge and got shoved into some prestigious academy or whatever but with it you get crushing pressure, detachment from normal socializing, and if you lose your 'worth', they'll probably throw you in with others they deemed useless.
It's better to be treated normal than hella special.
@Ask Bird Who shat on your food to insult me like that? You could have just explained where I went wrong in your perspective without being an ass.
Also, even if there is a difficulty in interacting due to the IQ gap, they are still children. Even with that they will still be able to empathize with each other.
If you're only surrounded by people with the same extreme abilities as you, you'd probably more likely not know the situation with those who weren't as lucky enough to be gifted or even understand truly what they are going through, and that misunderstanding will likely continue to grow until they are older. That's my point in it.
She would be totally bored in a regular school.
Just a question here. Doesn’t the IQ test and the qualifications to get into MENSA include reading comprehension, advanced math, vocabulary, logic problems etc??? I just didn’t understand how a three year old could have an IQ of 160 with a 5th grade reading level.
Can anyone explain this or agree with me on this topic?
The video did a bad job of highlighting her talents of genius. They should showed more than her placing countries on the map and reading a book. ?????
DianeCanDo Flamtaps I agree
There are alternate acceptance criteria.
William James Sidis was fluent in 8 languages at the age of 8, if the girl in this video learned spanish from an iPad I would believe she learned to speak some basic sentences from Duolingo.
Yes, most IQ tests only measures crystallized intelligence.
DianeCanDo Flamtaps exactly what I was thinking. If your IQ is 160, you would read @ a higher level than 5th grade & speak clearer also.
I'm happy that the doctor pointed out that she can't go to a normal school. It's important for her to be around others who also have a high IQ because those who have high IQs tend to be ostracized by the other kids. In general, people feel the most comfortable interacting with people of similar IQs. It's also extremely difficult on kids when the classes move too slowly because they are bored out of their minds hearing what they understand over and over.
The doctor is wrong. At age 3, all children should go to regular school, where they are encouraged to learn to deal with separation anxiety, develop their creativity, play with others, take turns, socialize, take naps when told, eat lunch and learn basic table manners, sit quietly and listen to a story, walk around the neighborhood in a group, play in the sandbox, have fun in the playground, and then go home. These are the most important life skills. "Everything I know I learned in Kindergarten". Robert Fulghum.
@@OfraSharon-Afir I agree with your comment.
“Fluent in Spanish” can’t even pronounce an incorrect sentence
How many Latino kids in the US are fluent in Spanish and English? My children are fluent in English and German and learning French...where is their Mensa card?
Mc Hobbit me
Mc Hobbit who cares?? Everyone should know at least one language plus if your family is German they learn it better. Also language isn’t a huge deal it’s also academics especially math
Oh I agree that everyone should know at least two languages. That is why I am teaching my children. It''s only in America where it's this extraordinary sign of high intelligence. If her parents were Mexican, they wouldn't give a hoot that she speaks Spanish but they consider it oh so special for a lily white child.
As for math--many Asians teach their children math that we in Europe and American consider advanced for their age and while some of the children cannot do it, most can. In some Asian countries, US high school work is grade school work. So if she were in Korea, the math wouldn't be a big deal.
Even reading--I met many earlier readers. I myself read at three. No reason but I was read to a lot and taught my letters and sounds. I'm not a genius, far from it. There are also programs that will teach toddlers to read. Just check youtube. Sure, not every child will learn if you try these things but in general, children can learn a lot when they have devoted parents who teach them. If she was infact taught, then she is a bright child but not a genius because I'd say at least half of all children have the capability but not every parent knows how to or wants to empathize academics at such a young age.
Other than Spanish, reading and math, we are just looking at memorization, such as where countries are etc. The only skill this takes is a good memory. I'd argue that she is very above average in that department, though children generally seem good at memorizing things.
Mc Hobbit I agree. I also think the US education system sucks. They should teach children new languages when they are very young so they can learn it. I really wish I was in an Asian country like japan or Korea and go to school there.
And I'm over here using a calculator to 'check' easy addition problems.
Brandon LMAOOOOOOOO SAME
This is a straight up mood
*enters 2+2* “oh thank god! it hasn’t changed, the calculators says that it’s still four”
Bethy Hernandez lmao gotta be sure somehow
And I’m here using a slide rule for multiplication.
3 year old IQ: 160
13 year old IQ: 70
xXgEnjIwEEbXx -master gengu Sounds like me
xXgEnjIwEEbXx -master gengu nah she is basically of 5th grade level
xXgEnjIwEEbXx -master gengu well you have many of the people I know
My IQ was 130 something at 13
xXgEnjIwEEbXx -master gengu 3yr old:160
8 year olds (me):122
My moms :120 lol
Just because shes a genius doesnt mean she doesn't need a childhood.
As someone who skipped a few grades, I am happy to hear her parents acknowledge that they want her to develop social skills at each level. It impacted me very drastically when I skipped grades. I regret doing it and wish I would have stayed back. My reasons are a bit different than others though. The biggest reason for me was sports. I played sports being 3 to 4 years younger than other students. I was able to keep up physically with everyone and be a starter in football and baseball but if I had stayed back I would have been able to play at a much more elite level and possibly found a career in sports. Let alone the social issues it posed for me.
I guess it depends on the school. I had great friends who skipped a grade and friend in highschool who too AP classes. They seemed to not get treated any different than the rest of us and were still just as weird goofy as the rest of our group of friends.
A few of them are accountants now and doing great for themselves.
If you score 9th stanine 99th percentile on the Otis-Lennon test, and if your abusive and envious parent won't let you skip grades or get you placed in a gifted program, guess what? You STILL have problems with your social development, because the other, average kids become haters and ostracize you, and I was a three-sport athlete. Plus, school becomes really boring, as you are held back below your level of comprehension. Excelling scholastically is our birthright. Never sell your experiences short.
@@alkh3myst being realistic, there's little difference between what they teaxh kids in grade 3 and what they teach them in grade 6 or even 7. Its not until kids hit 14 or 15 and suddenly learn there are way more fun things than learning like sex, drugs and rock and roll, that our western school systems decide, ok time for the real learning.
hi, can you tell me how you became so clever so young, im having my first child, and while im street smart, im also dumb with maths and english etc, so im worried i wont be able to teach and raise a clever child like you, any pointers?
@@lazycarper7925 hi. New mom here with an advanced 1 year old. Talk to them normlly, interaction with other babies REALLY helps. My kid knows stuff i never taught him. The same shows come on the babyfirst channel if you have cable. I think thats how he knows all his alphabet. DONT BE AFRAID OF TV.
They say dont let babies watch tv but i never thought anything was wrong becuase my kid ONLY watches educational shows. He wont even pay attention to spongebob or looney tunes if i put it on. also work at a daycare. Kids homework doesnt get hard until about 3rd grade when they start fractions. Theres been times where i couldnt even help the kids and felt dumb 😅 mostly becuase we dont even use what we learn in school in the real world... i just forgot.
I think its a matter of luck... there are lot of smart parents with dumb kids and dumb parents with smart kids.
Still too low to understand rick and morty
I get you hahaha XD
also this little girl is amazing I wish my parents would have put me to read when I was 2 :/
Ok but how is she fluent in Spanish by using Duolingo? My first language is Spanish and I'm not fluent so how can A 3 YEAR OLD who's first language is English be fluent in Spanish that's my question.
I think they might’ve meant fluent for her age.
Because shes literally a genius.. Did you hear what her IQ is? Shes literally smarter than you or me
Fluent just means you can hold a conversation. She would never be able to match a lifetime speaker.
Christopher Grace
"She would never be able to match a lifetime speaker."
If she learns Spanish at the age of 3 and continues speaking it, she *is* a lifetime speaker. She is still the critical period for language, so she could start learning Japanese and Russian at this point and would be able to match a native speaker in just a few years (if she were in an immersive environment, not just learning from a tablet)...
Sophie Filo You're right, but Duolingo and Rosetta stone will only get you so far. Neither of them teach grammar, either.
Thank you dear one ❤ you are not being controlled your mind is free from Lies ❤ Much love.
I bet she watches Rick and Morty
Aaron Rice lmfao
Yaaasss
Dora the explorer*
Mercy Lmao
yep
Mensa is run by geniuses yet they didn't realize the name means dumb in Spanish 😑
They're racist!
Eh might be on purpose an ironic name zD
It also means canteen in italian
It means idiot😂
This special child is going to get picked on and beat up in school by the children of these commenters,poor blanc ito!
IQ is a measure relative to the individual's age group. So the phrase "smarter than most people in the world" is a bit of an overstatement.
L Lawliet, well they usually maintain their score throughout their life, so it is kind of right. But at this time she isn't smarter than adults yet, so they did't phrase it quite right.
Maybe smarter than most people in the world were at that age
So true, but the kid is still very smart
Much smarts
Well it measure brain capacity so technically if she fills her head with a lot of knowledge and is taught the right things the right way, we will have another Einstein.
So why wasn’t she interviewed?
Right!? If she’s fluent in Spanish etc let’s hear it! What a bs joke😂