Isla McNabb’s ability to read back words written on an erasable tablet led her parents to contact Guinness World Records
Reading words aloud that adults scribble on an erasable tablet may not be the way many children spend their second birthdays. But it’s how Isla McNabb celebrated turning two, and it put the native of Crestwood, Kentucky, on the path to become the youngest ever female member of Mensa, the world’s oldest high IQ society, her parents said in a recent interview.
In a conversation published on Monday, Isla’s parents, Jason and Amanda McNabb, told the Guinness World Records website that they realized their daughter’s intelligence should be assessed after an aunt gave her an erasable writing tablet as a second birthday present.
Guinness records and IQ tests - both seem unreliable to me
Yeah its all pure wank
How do you know if someone is a part of Mensa?
Don’t worry, they’ll let you know. Repeatedly.
like vegans?
By the way, I use Arch
Or people who like making jokes about them.
“The biggest benefit to Mensa is the community,” Jason McNabb said to Guinness.
The biggest drawback of Mensa is the community.
IQ is relative to age, a 100 is standard for your age. The minimum to join mensa is 132… but that would mean she has the standard intelligence of a ~3-year-old. That’s good for a 2 year old but not exactly what you’d think of when you think about how smart Mensa members are.
She can spell at 2 and a half and do math. That’s a bit better than most 3 and 4 year olds.
Meaning she’s likely well beyond the Mensa minimum
But has she developed the prerequisite overinflated ego?
I recommend the podcast “My year in Mensa”. Crazy cult like
I thought you said her podcast, as in the kid in the story and was like, damn she’s so smart she’s already doing tell all about Mensa…
Hm. I could read at like 2 and a half years. I could even read text rotated upside down (though I’m not sure it was at that age but it was when I was in daycare) and I have a couple funny stories involving that.
However I would now consider myself a fairly averagely intelligent guy compared to the other people in my CS classes. Much can change in that time.
So to best support Isla, the McNabbs enrolled Isla in Mensa, hoping to connect with other similarly situated parents who could share some information with them.
If they think it helps, I suppose. Still feels to me like this could easily go wrong and be a good way to drive the kid to burnout because of the expectations. But maybe I just have a bias against Mensa, because all talk about them that I hear seems to be negative. The media attention certainly doesn’t help in any case.
That’s great, can we have healthcare now?
No.
This really puts a lot of pressure on this girl as she gets older. Seems unwise to make such a big deal about it.
That is great to see for her.
Somebody get that kid some comic books!
I’d rather be in Densea.