Education

In most education classes I've taken, IQ testing has been disparaged in one form or another, which is just as well with me, as real-world performance is eminently more important than clinical prognostications. It's been my experience, however, that some people are smarter than others (by accepting this fact, I fully realize that the proceeding statement means that people are smarter than me). I notice this in the Army when two different people, equally unfamiliar with the material, understand a particular problem faster and more thoroughly than the other and in my own classes as well.

And then there's this little girl, Ms. Brown. At two years old, have school quality, income, class, book availability, or any of the other sociological explanations for IQ disparity, had time to influence the little girl?

A British 2-year-old versus Stephen Hawking: Who is smarter?

In the case of Georgia Brown, it's about a draw.

Brown, a young British girl with golden locks, has an IQ of 152 — which, proportionate to her age, puts her in the same intellectual league as the famed physicist, according to London's Daily Mail.

Click here to read the Daily Mail story.

Brown started crawling at five months; she was walking at nine months. At 14 months she was dressing herself, and just 18 months after her birth she was having full conversations.

What else can the toddler do? How about using the word "arrogant" in conversation?

After an outing to see Beauty and the Beast at a theater, she told her parents: "I didn't like Gaston (the villain). He was mean and arrogant."