6yr old with 176 I.Q

[Bobby Fischer]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

someone sat around and listened to him accomplish this?

or...once you figure out powers of 10, the sky's the limit? if i were the reporter, i'd have gone with a trillion which is more newsworthy at the moment.

he's obviously a bright kid that tests well on the kind of intelligence that's testable. but comparing that kind of intelligence to einstein is suggesting that someone who can name the most colors is the best artist.

i feel bad for him. his parents must have called the paper or at least ok'd the article. intellectual stage parents.

he can't help but disappoint.

yea, parents living through their kids.

My daughter is my little wiz-kid.
no memory tricks or pressure though...

taught her chess in a couple of days when she was 6... took her to a chess club for grade school beginners, and she had to start carrying extra queens in her pocket for promoting pawns. I was impressed.

Not sure that she is any type of genius. Every parent feels their kid is the best. She's about a grade or two ahead academically but it isn't evident unless she is given work above the level of the class. Seeing her papers you'd never know it. She might misspell her name, misspell or fail to fill-in-the-blank with the answers in the paragraph above etc...
A real knucklehead like her dad. Rather than going ahead beyond basic math, we do extra work on common sense, and how to be a good 2nd grader.