LONDON - A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl with an IQ just below that of Albert Einstein has become the youngest-ever member of Mensa in Britain, the high-intelligence society said on Thursday.
Elise Tan Roberts started talking at five months, walking at eight and can now name 35 capital cities, recite the alphabet and name all different types of triangle, according to the Daily Mirror.
'She just says things and you have no idea where she got it from,' her 28-year-old mother Louise told the paper. 'I don't set out to teach her loads of stuff, she just enjoys learning and picks things up.
'She's always on the go, she never stops,' she added.
Mensa confirmed that at the age of 845 days - two years and four months - she was the youngest ever member, beating Ben Woods, who joined Mensa aged 1,035 days in the 1990s.
The youngest girl to make it into the society - for people whose intelligence is in the top two per cent of the population - was Georgia Brown who joined Mesa in 2007 aged 1,041 days.
The two-year-old's IQ of 156 was assessed using a standard Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale test, putting her in the top 0.2 per cent of her age group.
Einstein, the father of relativity, had an IQ of 160. -- AFP
Elise Tan Roberts started talking at five months, walking at eight and can now name 35 capital cities, recite the alphabet and name all different types of triangle, according to the Daily Mirror.
'She just says things and you have no idea where she got it from,' her 28-year-old mother Louise told the paper. 'I don't set out to teach her loads of stuff, she just enjoys learning and picks things up.
'She's always on the go, she never stops,' she added.
Mensa confirmed that at the age of 845 days - two years and four months - she was the youngest ever member, beating Ben Woods, who joined Mensa aged 1,035 days in the 1990s.
The youngest girl to make it into the society - for people whose intelligence is in the top two per cent of the population - was Georgia Brown who joined Mesa in 2007 aged 1,041 days.
The two-year-old's IQ of 156 was assessed using a standard Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale test, putting her in the top 0.2 per cent of her age group.
Einstein, the father of relativity, had an IQ of 160. -- AFP