Keyword: iq

Can 'Genius' Really Be Detected in Infancy?

Picture: www.welaf.com Scott Barry Kaufman - Four-year-old Heidi Hankins was all over the news earlier this year. According to the Daily Mail, she "has an IQ of 159 -- only one point below Albert Einstein's -- and has become one of the youngest members of Mensa." As her father has pointed out, she has always shown an intense need for intellectual stimulation, bursting at the mouth to speak at birth, acquiring vocabulary by the age of one, and voraciously reading through all 30 books in the Oxford Reading...