Pranav has an IQ of 176. One person in 1 million has an IQ of 176 or above. Albert Einstein’s IQ was believed to be about 160. The average IQ is 100.
Pranav Veera can recite the names of the U.S. presidents in the order they served in office. He can say the alphabet backward. Give him a date back to 2000, and he’ll tell you the day of the week.
He’s only 6 years old.
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And as with all good genius children, he is dressed up like an adult…. sometimes the world is predictable, and very, very wrong!
wow!
Agreed – put him in a fairy outfit like Derrens parents did.
Yeah WELL I can apply foundation, blush, mascara, eyeliner and concealer all in under 10 minutes. YEAH. Who needs a high IQ when you can do that?
(I’m going to cry myself to sleep for the next week in shame. Damn clever children. D:)
Aww it’s such a shame he has to be slapped round the face really hard before he’ll be able to count those letters though, eh Derren?
hehee..sjeesus those comments…
Is he the finale of Derrens new show?!!!!!!!!
Its interesting in that he looks to be of indian descent. I know MANY friends of mine who were pressured into doing calculus when they were in the womb. They all turned out to be doctors or scientists.
I wonder if his upbringing had a role in helping him? or not? hhhmmmm
To what extent does the memorisation of the U.S. Presidents make anyone a genius? Give me a couple of weeks and I could do the same. I can also recite the alphabet backwards. My IQ is just marginally above 100. I am not a genius.
aww i want one. i know a 4 year old that can do multiplication in his head.
By the way, what is Derrens IQ? No really, I’m serious, does anybody know his IQ?
Having a high IQ means you are good at doing IQ tests and not much more. I can score over 140 on pretty much any IQ test and I rock those mensa tests people email around.. however… I can not read basic instructions. I can not remember milk. I don’t do well at trivia nights. It just means you are good at doing IQ tests.
That little boy is too cute… I always did really well at tests, but when it comes to remembering simple things, not so much. My favorite comforter has been at the cleaners since Christmas because I keep forgetting to pick it up.
wow – i wonder what hisiq will be at 18 years old.
My husband has the exact same IQ, 176, but he has Asperger’s Syndrome so he hasn’t achieved what one might expect from someone with that level of intelligence.
My IQ is pretty close to his. Who cares? In my opinion, the higher the IQ, the smarter you are, and the more you know, the harder life is. Sometimes you see way too much and it’s hard to relate to people.
Kim – that’s interesting… I’ve encountered a similar correlation between people with high IQs and dyslexia. I couldn’t say if it’s a trend or merely that the few people I know with dyslexia also happen to be smartarses!
You should read Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers. You’ll find out high IQ doesn’t mean all that.
IQs are definitely one measure of knowing stuff, but the way I personally see learning is that in terms of knowledge you either know stuff or you don’t, but nearly everybody learns at the same rate.
Here’s why:
From times such as school years, you are quickly adopted the belief that you are either smart or dumb. You then fulfil this belief by looking for ways to support it and disregarding things that go against it. Think about the behaviour ‘norms’ that exist between what people may call ‘nerds’ and ‘jocks’.
If you truly weren’t able to learn stuff at all:
Your conscious mind could not make new decisions as it would not be able to learn what it thinks will be the consequence of the decision.
Your belief system would not function in light of new experiences.
If you ate a poisonous food, you survival instinct would not learn that the same food is indeed poisonous.
Not all as it seems I say…
I have an IQ of 170, but I am also really lacking in common sense and forget things all the time.
IQ is a measure of one type of intelligence and those who score high on IQ tests often lack in other areas
Have you guys ever noticed that some people who are incredibly intelligent are completely lacking in common sense? I wonder why…
A high IQ suggests a tendancy to overthink on common situations. The more we think needlessly about stuff, the more likely we are to irrationalise situations and make weird decisions. The number of thoughts is going to determine this likelyhood.
I hate him – he\’s making the rest of us look bad.
Only kidding, he\’ll probably find a cure for cancer or save the planet or something, or at least win the Weakest Link.
Why do people seem to equate being able to remember strings of facts with bein intelligent? Just because you can remember the names of 40-odd presidents, or who won the FA cup each year etc does not make you clever. It makes you a notepad! Intelligence comes into being able to figure out problems, being able to see the link between seemingly disparate facts, and being able to make leaps of logic.
Like Ianne, I have an IQ that is quite above average, but it doesn’t mean anything other than I can do IQ tests.
I am pretty sure your IQ can change as time goes by, and is calculated in comparison with the population average – so if you live in a magical land of Oxford professors, your IQ number will drop, but if you live in the Terrible Land of Troglodytes it goes up. I’m not sure if I am correct, though.
I’m not good with IQ. I honestly don’t think I have the attention span to complete any of those tests.
This is where we get the ‘mad scientist’ image from, isn´t it? He invents a time machine or suchlike but could´nae find his arse with both hands…
They’ve got EQ tests as well these days, to measure how well you get along with people (emotional quotient). IQ is skewed towards maths-like reasoning & misses out a lot of important reasoning/processing skills that matter much more when it comes to actually achieving things & hacking out a happy and fulfilled life for yourself.
Information is good. I like collecting information & quantities & statistics. Still, measuring children’s intelligence like this always depresses me. It teaches people to categorise themselves early on, and measure their value by competing against other people in some stupid number-game which they’re even told is outside their control. A below-local-average IQ score can lumber kids with self-esteem problems (obviously destructive) but a high IQ score can be damaging too. Children can mess themselves up with success-guilt or delusions of grandeur just as much as adults can.
I wish education focused on teaching people that their brains are fluid, changeable things full of undiscovered abilities, and these can be developed at any time in life and it’s *fun*. There’s so much pressure to compete against people at school, and either be a life-long ’success’ or ‘failure’ as a result. It’s really negative and isolating and I’m in *such* a bad mood with this stupic country sometimes! I bet everything’s better in Denmark.
Also, children in waistcoats are like kittens in bonnets.
Ofcourse it did not get its IQ from his parents, let’s put that first. There are lots of examples of people with high iq with parents with normal or low iq’s.
Also, I’m sure this type of iq (….), the way it has been described here, can be triggered also by other things in its upbringing .. Parents can force their kids in such brain systems .. It does not sound to healthy .. the way it has been described here .. lot of useless stuff. Meanwhile .. where is the kid himself …
IQ is not a static thing, and not always so positive .. A very high IQ that is. As we all know by now.
You can get around, and into the university with quite normal brains … so why would you want more? If you boost it .. it will lack major in other areas … more human areas …
CQ (combined Q’s that have been developped by scientists by now) …
Who developped the IQ tests … who decides what is IQ? The iq test I have seen are a bit dumb .. and predictable .. it does not really ask something from someone .. we just reproduce stuff others thought was intelligent .. At times it is a complete waste of time, a huge spill of energy ..
The thing we are not that good in might give us the most in the end ..
kittens in bonnets = lots of scratches!
have a look at kenneth l.higbee’s book, your memory and how to improve it. This has a trick that can help you remember every day for a whole year using a 12 digit number (pg 97). You end up looking like a genius, but it is just a mind hack. The other items mentions are also memory tricks. i am sure he’s smart though
, he doesn’t have all the stuff like paying the mortgage to cloud his head
funny how people posting here seem to have an average I.Q. of 150 or more.
it\’s a miracle of a semi religious nature as Randi would say.
nice to see the immediate torrent of knee-jerk reactions trying to belittle the kid and make out he isn’t anything special. you must all be really proud of yourselves. especially all the ones who ‘have a similar IQ, but it doesn’t really mean anything’. O RLY.
Lots of famous child prodigies didn\’t end up doing anything important. To be successful you need more than just intelligence. You also need determination and rationality.