A former president of Birmingham Law Society is facing up to the prospect of being outsmarted by his 11-year-old daughter after it was discovered she has a higher IQ than Einstein.
Dean Parnell, a partner at Birmingham law firm Sydney Mitchell, has admitted to being well and truly outsmarted by daughter Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell after she applied to join the high IQ organisation Mensa.
Cerys recently achieved a maximum IQ score of 162 in the Mensa supervised test – beating her dad’s score of 142.
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Mr Parnell has been a member of the organisation for ten years and his daughter was keen to follow suit, though she wasn’t expecting to surpass his score.
Cerys achieved her impressive score on the Cattell III B scale, which she has been told gives her an IQ higher than people like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein.
She is believed to be in the top 0.004 per cent of people who have scored 162 in the Mensa test.
“My primary aim was to beat my dad, who is very smart, but I didn’t expect to beat him by such a huge margin,” said a confident Cerys, who sat the Mensa supervised exam in Milton Keynes on July 27.
Cerys, who attends Wellingborough School in Northampton, added: “I am quite competitive with my dad but he usually beats me because I am only 11 years of age.
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“However, I have now beaten him good and proper and I will never let him forget this.”
Mr Parnell, who was the 191st president of Birmingham Law Society from 2010-2011, said: “I am not sure if this score is a good thing or a bad thing as I know she will be questioning everything I now tell her to do and I know I will never hear the end of the fact she thrashed me on the Mensa test.”
At 11 years of age, Cerys, whose parents are both lawyers, is one of the youngest people to have sat the Mensa test and she has now been invited to join the high IQ organisation.
Although still at a relatively tender age, the talented youngster is already thinking ahead to a high-flying career that might involve anything from mathematics to politics. Her favourite subject at school is mathematics and she is part of a ‘gifted and talented’ group at her school, which stays behind to tackle complex maths puzzles.
She said: “I like working with numbers so I think I would like to work for a bank or go into politics, as I like talking.”
Mr Parnell said that despite her impressively high IQ, his daughter remained just like any other 11-year-old, who “loves pop music, playing tennis, annoying her brother Ieuan, texting her friends and watching TV”.
Seemingly unaffected by her achievement, a modest Cerys, who was able to recite the names of dozens of capital cities before she even started school, also displays signs her feet are still firmly on the ground.
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“At 11 I do not have that many intellectual discussions with my friends and, to be honest, there is more to a person than just their IQ,” she said.
“I should not be compared to Einstein or Professor Hawking as they have achieved so much and I am still in school and have not really achieved a great deal.”
She added: “Whilst it is really nice to find out I have a high IQ it is now up to me to make the most of it – but I still intend to enjoy my childhood.”
Mensa – the High IQ Society offers membership to those who are able to demonstrate an IQ that comes within the top two per cent in the country.
It uses two main tests to identify IQ scores, the Cattell III B (minimum score of 148 required) and the Cattell Culture Fair III A (minimum score of 132 required).
British Mensa currently has more than 21,000 members.
Although Albert Einstein never took an IQ test, which was not around during his lifetime, experts believe he had an IQ of around 160.
The IQ test is designed to test a range of abilities to determine intelligence level and in the 海角视频 the average person achieves a score of 100.
A score of 162 on the Cattell IIIB test would put a person within the top one per cent of people in the country.