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| Girl, 2, becomes member of Mensa | |
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| A two-year-old girl from Hampshire has become the youngest ever female member of British Mensa. | |
| Georgia Brown, from Aldershot, Hampshire, astounded experts by scoring 152 in an IQ test - putting her in the top 2% of the population for her age. | |
| Psychologist Joan Freeman, who tested Georgia, said she thought the toddler could have scored even higher but needed a nap after 45 minutes of work. | Psychologist Joan Freeman, who tested Georgia, said she thought the toddler could have scored even higher but needed a nap after 45 minutes of work. |
| Georgia's mother, Lucy, said: "It's fantastic. We're so proud as a family." | Georgia's mother, Lucy, said: "It's fantastic. We're so proud as a family." |
| I had come unexpectedly into the presence of something rather special Prof Joan Freeman | I had come unexpectedly into the presence of something rather special Prof Joan Freeman |
| She had spotted that her daughter was a strikingly quick learner. | She had spotted that her daughter was a strikingly quick learner. |
| Georgia was crawling at five months, walking at nine months and, by 18 months, was having proper conversations. | Georgia was crawling at five months, walking at nine months and, by 18 months, was having proper conversations. |
| The Brown family called in Prof Freeman, from Middlesex University, to test her IQ level in relation to others of her age. | |
| Prof Freeman said she used the Stamford-Binet Intelligence Scale test and was "elated" by what she found. | Prof Freeman said she used the Stamford-Binet Intelligence Scale test and was "elated" by what she found. |
| She told the BBC: "She is two years, nine months - not very much older than a toddler really - and she is able to answer questions five and six-year-olds can't. | She told the BBC: "She is two years, nine months - not very much older than a toddler really - and she is able to answer questions five and six-year-olds can't. |
| "The test uses questions like 'If brother is to boy, then sister is to ...?'. If you take a normal two-year-old, they cannot hold a pencil, they don't know the colours and they would not be able to answer those simple questions. | "The test uses questions like 'If brother is to boy, then sister is to ...?'. If you take a normal two-year-old, they cannot hold a pencil, they don't know the colours and they would not be able to answer those simple questions. |
| 'Amazing' concentration | 'Amazing' concentration |
| "The thing I found most striking was the copying of a circle. Most two-year-olds cannot do that but she drew a perfect one. | "The thing I found most striking was the copying of a circle. Most two-year-olds cannot do that but she drew a perfect one. |
| "I was quite elated - I had come unexpectedly into the presence of something rather special. | "I was quite elated - I had come unexpectedly into the presence of something rather special. |
| "She scored 152 points but I think she could have got more - she just got very tired. Concentrating for three-quarters-of-an-hour at that young age is amazing." | "She scored 152 points but I think she could have got more - she just got very tired. Concentrating for three-quarters-of-an-hour at that young age is amazing." |
| Mensa confirmed Georgia was their youngest member at the moment and the youngest female member ever. | Mensa confirmed Georgia was their youngest member at the moment and the youngest female member ever. |
| The youngest ever member was a boy, who was several days younger than Georgia when he joined in the 1990s. | The youngest ever member was a boy, who was several days younger than Georgia when he joined in the 1990s. |