Three-year-old girl to join high IQ society
Thursday June 02, 2011 05:22:02 PM,
IANS
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London: A
three-year-old girl in Britain, who is set to join Mensa, is
looking forward to go to school.
Saffron Pledger has an IQ of 140 compared to a Britain average of
100.
She showed her intelligence by beating her father, Danny, as they
watched words-and-maths game on TV.
"I will say I have a seven-letter word and she will say she's got
an eight...," The Sun quoted Danny as saying.
Saffron said: "I'll go to school soon."
She can read stories to her little sister and count to 50. Her IQ
was found out by an educational psychologist.
Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. It
is a non-profit organisation open to people who score at the 98th
percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other
intelligence test. Mensa in Latin means table.
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