Sherwyn Sarabi has the same IQ as Albert Einstein

Mar 13, 2014 08:45 GMT  ·  By

A four-year-old boy who has an IQ level similar to that of the renowned scientist Albert Einstein has become the youngest member of an exclusive genius society.

Sherwyn Sarabi, from Barnsley, Yorkshire, obtained a score of 160 on the Wechsler scale, which is the highest possible mark on an IQ test. He is already a member of Mensa after being admitted in January 2013.

Now, he has also been accepted to Helliq Society, an organization that has much more demanding entry requirements and has only 85 members worldwide. To be admitted to Helliq, a person needs to perform in the top 0.003 per cent of the population, while Mensa requires its members to perform in the top two per cent of the population in terms of intelligence.

Sherwyn started school two years earlier than the normal kids, and he now attends Rastrick Independent School, a private educational institution in Brighouse, West Yorks.

The boy knows the entire periodic table of elements by heart and is able to identify any country on a map and match them to their flags. Although he is only four, he has already read 1,032 books.

His mother Amanda is very proud of him and supports him unconditionally. She says that her son is just like other children his age and plays with toys, but the only thing he doesn't do is watch television.

“He keeps on getting even higher recognition for his abilities. He still keeps giving us a shock from time to time,” she said, according to the Express.

Dr. Peter Congdon, a consultant educational psychologist who measured Sherwyn's IQ, said it could be even higher, but the test could not measure an IQ any higher than 160. He also mentioned that the boy's mental age is measured at 8 years and 9 months, which is more than twice his actual age.

“Sherwyn is a child of exceptionally high functional intelligence. His abilities fall at the upper limit of the range sometimes referred to as intellectually gifted,” Dr. Congdon said in his report.

Helliq is an exclusive high IQ society, which functions as a web-based superior intelligence community. It was founded on the first day of the third millennium by Dr. Evangelos Katsioulis MD.

In order to be accepted in the Helliq Society, a person's performance on an acceptable standardized IQ test must be of at least four standard deviations above the average of the general population.