Georgia Brown (child prodigy)

Georgia Brown (born August 2004) is a British child prodigy whose IQ score at the age of two is recorded as 152 according to the standard Stanford-Binet intelligence scale test. She is one of only 30 Mensa members under the age of 10, as well as the youngest current member of the organization.

Family
Georgia Brown was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, Southern England to Martin Brown, a self-employed carpenter, and Lucy, chief executive of the charity Disability Initiative. She is the youngest of five children. Her eldest brother, Ben, is 24 years old and works as a civil servant.

Prodigy evidences
Her intelligence was evidenced from early days. She was crawling at five months and walking at nine months. By 14 months, she was getting dressed on her own. She began to speak very early and by 18 months could produce a proper conversation. Her parents soon recognized their daughter's extraordinary talent. On an occasion after watching Beauty and the Beast, Georgia, with her incredibly fast development in vocabulary, used the words "mean" and "arrogant" in commenting on the character Gaston, which astounded her family. At the age of 2 she could count to 10 and differentiate between pink and purple, an ability most children gain at primary school age, and even start to dabble with a little French.

It was Georgia's fast progress at nursery that stimulated her parents to think about her future education. After several consultations, her mother Lucy contacted Professor Joan Freeman, an eminent educational psychologist from Middlesex University, for advice. Professor Freeman applied the standard Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale test to Georgia. To her amazement, the little girl gained an impressive score of 152, which puts her in the top 0.2 per cent, or one in 500, of the most intelligent people. People with average IQ would score approximately 100 points with the same test.

According to Professor Freeman, the test is too limited to measure Georgia's true creative ability: "The test can only measure a limited amount, but she was incredibly creative. Even at two, she was very thoughtful. What Georgia did on some questions was of a higher quality than that which was necessary to gain a mark. In another test requested by Prof Freeman, the toddler’s concentration is shown remarkably surprising. She is able to draw a circle perfectly, which points out her physical ability to hold the pen well and understanding of the concept of a circle.

Mensa member
Georgia was confirmed a Mensa member when she was 2 years and 10 months, thus making her currently the youngest member of Mensa and the youngest female member ever in the organization's history. The previous youngest current member was a three-year-old boy with an IQ of 137, who joined in 2005. Caroline Garbett, from Mensa, said Georgia was the youngest of an already select group: We have something like 1,000 members under the age of 18, but only 30 under ten. However, the youngest-recorded member is credited to Ben Woods, who was 1035 days young when he joined in the 1990s while Georgia had reached the old age of 1041 days when her membership was confirmed.