英國12歲女孩智商超愛因斯坦和霍金

A 12-year-old girl who had an inkling she might be quite clever has taken a test and proved she was absolutely right。

一位12歲的天才少女，在一項測試後，證明了她的超羣智慧。

Lydia Sebastian achieved the top score of 162 on Mensa’s Cattell III B paper, suggesting she has a higher IQ than well-known geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking。

莉迪亞塞巴斯蒂安在門薩卡特爾考試中取得了最高分—162分，這一高分表明她的智商比著名天才愛因斯坦和霍金都要高！

The comparison doesn’t sit well with the British student, who’s currently in Year 8 at Colchester County high school, a selective girl’s grammar school in Essex, England。

這個女孩，目前在英國埃塞克斯科爾切斯特縣一所女子文科高中八年級就讀，對測試結果還有點難以接受。

"I don’t think I can be compared to such great intellectuals such as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. They’ve achieved so much. I don’t think it’s right," Lydia told CNN。

“我和愛因斯坦和霍金這樣的偉人根本無法相提並論。他們有着卓越的成就，我和他們根本無法比，”莉迪亞告訴CNN。

Lydia sat the test in her summer holidays, after raising the idea with her parents and pestering them for the best part of a year。

莉迪亞和父母有了這樣的想法後，在一年中最好的時間—暑假進行了這項測試。

It turns out the test wasn’t that hard after all。

然而，莉迪亞發現測試並沒有那麼難。

"I was really nervous before the test and I thought it was going to be really hard. But as I started the test, I thought it was a bit easier than I thought it was going to be," she said。

她說，“測試之前我真的很緊張，以爲會很難。但測試開始後，我發現它比我想象的要容易一些”。

Lydia’s not quite sure what she wants to do when she leaves school, although she’s leaning toward something "based around maths, because it’s one of my favorite subjects."

莉迪亞對畢業後要做什麼並沒有什麼打算，但她可能會選擇“和數學相關的東西，因爲這是我最喜歡的科目之一。”

"All I’m going to do is work as hard as I can, and see where that gets me," she said。

“我現在要做的就是努力、努力學習，看我能做到怎樣，”她說。

To put Lydia’s mark in perspective, the top adult score in the Cattell III B test, which primarily tests verbal reasoning, is 161. A top 2% score -- which allows entry to Mensa, the club for those with high IQs -- would be 148 or over. Lydia scored 162, placing her in the top 1% of the population。

從莉迪亞的分數來看，門薩卡特爾III B測試主要測試言語推理，成年人最高分也才161。前2%的分數才能被允許進入門薩俱樂部，該俱樂部只面向分數在148以上、智商極高的人羣。莉迪亞得分162，在所有人中處於前1%的位置。