Essex blonde, 16, has Einstein IQ

I don't know - at the upper levels of the profession, they can be pretty cool and have a certain global cachet. It would be nice to hear of more famous women architects.

daughter of a black cab driver

Neither Einstein nor Hawking have ever taken an IQ test. Einstein because they weren't invented in his time, and Hawking because he thinks (read: knows) they're bull****.
Just. Like. Mensa.

if she's that brilliant then she's wasted on architechture.

Why do you say that? I always respected the demand for mathematical and creative proficiency architechture requires

see post 102

That post repeats a dismissal of architechture without really explaining why it isn't worth the time of bright minds

Because architecture is easier than understanding the currently not-understood aspects of reality. Architects design buildings, and that's fine, I'm not knocking architects, but that's not beyond the capabilities of "normal" people. Making major contributions to something like physics or mathematics generally is. Architecture is great but the ingenuity of a few great scientists has totally transformed our whole lives.

they have not allowed comments because the writer knows she will get backlash for writing tripe

the writer should be fired for writing worthless articles

on average at least 10-20 people in every year group have an iq above 160, it is nothing newsworthy but the writer has somehow lost her brain.

The telegraph is nearly as bad as the daily mail

the only news site worth reading is the bbc, even the guardian regularly allows rubbish to be posted

IQ is a load of bull****

Come back when you do something with your IQ.

Define 'normal'. Besides, even if the average joe was intelligent enough to become an architecht - which isn't a given - doesn't mean they'd have the willpower to succeed in that field. Likewise, just because she scored very highly on an IQ test does not mean she could automatically excel in any human endeavour. She might dislike the sciences beyond the kindergarten of GCSE, which would slow her progress in a scientific field and ultimately make less use of her there than could be made in a field which she had a passion for. Just because you consider science to be a more valuable human field doesn't mean she would have been of better use there. And who's to say that sciences are more important than architechture or arts? If it wasn't for the innovation and creativity of architechts we'd be inhabiting utilitarian wastelands conceived by the government. And what would be the point of all of science's transformations if we lived in a place like that?

No, it's not. It's just a metric used to measure a certain type of ability. Many of the presumptions around it may be BS, such as high IQ equates to amazing performance for example, but that doesn't make IQ itself any less reliable?

Yes but I highly doubt she knows the theory of relatively let alone could come up with something comparable..........

To be fair, Einstein was often modest about his achievements, "right place, right time", etc. He was building on other people's work apparently. I don't understand relativity very well, and I'm sure it's extraordinary, but not everyone is going to be brilliant at that particular kind of reasoning, stellar IQ or not.

I think I remember reading that people with very high IQs often have personality difficulties and don't always make a success of their lives, society is not particularly welcoming in some ways to very brainy people, especially very brainy people who have eccentricities or character issues.

If you wish to argue, then please tell me by describing and explaining what IQ is, and how it is reliable

You go to Oxford right? so your IQ must be somewhat similar?

Well, you know what they say about Oxford and Cambridge being full of eccentrics...

lol I wasn't calling you weird, I think eccentric girls are quite charming tbh. It's just that Oxford isn't exactly a run of the mill university hence the people who go there have a brain cell or two. Your IQ must be comparable to hers, that's all.

Your argument is the equivalent of saying nose length does not correlate to sense of smell, therefore a measuring tape doesn't work.