My friend knows that I am interested in IQ, so he sends me a link, with this header: A GENIUS teenager has a higher IQ than Einstein and Stephen Hawking – but just wants to be a popstar when she grows up.
The article details that a 13 year-old girl has the highest possible IQ, she was talking at two and reading fluently by four.
Hats off, but I have two issues with this girl and her IQ.
IQ is age specific. It means that it is compared to the performance of her age group, not to Einstein’s or Hawking’s performance at the same age. She didn't answer questions intended to adults and einsteins, but her own age-group. IQ changes by age. If you have an IQ of 162 at the age of 13, it is not a guarantee that you will have the same IQ twenty years later. This number is relative. There is a possibility that it won't improve and by the age of 20 her IQ will be just average.
Average babies start to walk at 12 month. There are kids forced to walk at 9 month, but later they have zero advantage from it.
This genius girl is the same. Reading at four is possible, but what is the benefit? Did she read Platoon?
High IQ might mean only faster development, but not higher development. Prodigy kids rarely grow into prodigy adults. They do things earlier than others, but it is not the sign of a genius. Apples take time to be ripe, and turning red earlier don't make them tastier.

My second issue is that even if she will have a brilliant IQ, it doesn’t mean that she can utilize it. There is a guy, close to the highest IQ in the world, he is a postman (happy postman, anyway, it is important).
I would like to know what she has already achieved. Did she write a book? Started a company? Has a patent? How has she contributed to the world? Does she have great ideas? Or just answers multiple choice questions correctly?
I have a book about an African boy, exactly the same age, who built a wind turbine from a scrapyard to solve his family’s challenges. The story was made into movie, you can check on Netflix (The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind). I don’t know his IQ and am not interested in it. He became an engineer, though his parents couldn’t afford to send him to school. It is something I can admire.
Back to the girl, she passed a test and made a headline. She has a great potential, but I want to see her singing wonderfully. Actions are more important than potentials.