A 12-year-old schoolgirl has been accepted into Mensa after
discovering she is brainier than both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Olivia Manning, from Liverpool, managed to get a whopping score
in an IQ test of 162 - well above the 100 average.
Her score is not only two points better than genius German
physicist Einstein and Professor Stephen Hawking, but puts her in the top one
per cent of intelligent people in the world.
She said: ‘A lot more people are coming up to me asking for
help with their homework. I just like challenges and making my mind think.’
Olivia, who lives on the Norris Green housing estate, admits
to having a knack for quickly absorbing and remembering new information - but
confessed to being ‘speechless’ when she discovered her score.
But despite outdoing the likes of TV mathematician Carol
Vorderman, who could only muster 154, Olivia is set to put the stage before
sums.
It helps that she barely needs a script – with the youngster
revealing she learned her lines for a Macbeth production within 24 hours.
But Olivia – a member of her school’s Mensa after-school
problem-solving club - will have plenty of her own work to do.
Teacher and club organiser Stacey Meighen joked: ‘We have
given her extra work to do and will now want to know why she’s not getting As
in everything.’
Also accepted into Mensa with a 151 score was 12-year-old
Lauren Gannon, another Norris Green resident, putting her into the top two per
cent of the population.
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