This is a complete lie !! The youngest professor was Harvey Friedman who in 1967 became an assistant professor of philosophy at Stanford University three weeks before his 19th birthday. Alia Sabur became a professor (not really a professor, but actually a Research Liaison) 3 days before her 19th birthday. In fact, Harvey Friedman was in the Guinness Book of Records for decades as having been the youngest professor, just search Google Books for the phrase "Harvey Friedman Guinness"..
It's easy to parse what she said. She's talking about bumping photons (from laser light) up against atoms to nudge them into place and in this way build nano sized objects/machines. Bouncing individual photons against atoms is how they achieve super cool temps, it's like taking your hand and blocking a ball here and there until they're all slowed down - at which point you have almost absolute zero (when atoms aren't moving or hardly vibrating at all).
@007MrYang None. Kids who are neglected have unstable, unsupportive home lives. Plenty of parents who aren't rich are supportive and provide a stable home life. It's just so happens that most parents who are not supportive or competent are also "poor".
IQ isn't everything. I have an IQ higher than Stephen Hawking and I'm just another student. Keep in mind that test was taken when I was 5, too. I can do shit faster than anyone I know but I just cbf most of the time.
what I don't understand is... yes back in history people with the highest of IQ's contributed the most but nowadays people with the highest of IQ's do not contribute so much today, the founder of DNA apparently had a IQ of 120... Einstein had a IQ of 195.. I can tell you even though they may be a genius unfortunately I doubt the human race will benefit much from geniuses in the future as the unintelligent are greatly outnumbering and outbreeding the intelligent...
@xqSoccer depends what scale you measure of, for example a Binet test in America, the SD is much different to perhaps one administered in the UK, but if you say his IQ is 160, then back to my point the founder of DNA's IQ would be around perhaps 105
@WelshMuay , the reason you don't understand is because IQ tests are failed attempt in measuring intelligence. It's not just you, but people in here don't seem to grasp the different between genius and educated.
where do these ppl go when they get old? they disappear, you never hear from, you think they will change the world or contribute a lot, but they disappear.
@Gutsyndicate Generally gifted give up on humanity around the age of 12-14, when they begin to discover our species is a piece of shit. I gave up a year and a half ago, and I don't plan on contributing. I know several others who also gave up recently.
@Gutsyndicate This is highly unlikely. She doesn't seem to possess any obsessive qualities other than being really smart. High functioning savants would also be classified as having asperger's syndrome, which again, she doesn't appear to have because of what I said earlier. She's just really smart.
i agree she's not a super genius, but why is everyone hating on stony brook? they have a pretty damn good math program. she could have also gone there to reduce cost.
given her current performance, i don't think she's amazing, but she is very smart, or at least motivated
@EltBerserker Are you fking KIDDING me? No. People who graduated top of their classes at normal ages were "very smart." Starting Ph.D. studies at age 14 is far beyond VERY smart. And you really think "motivation" is all it takes to learn to read at a third grade reading level 3-4 years before most kids start learning how to sound out their ABCs in kindergarten?
Children of Iran, they shine wherever they are, Long live our beloved Iran, hopefully all Iranians come back home to serve their nation, hope for democracy in Iran.
Yes, I have heard of all those names before. They were all great thinkers centuries ago. It's a shame that Muslim science went down hill soon after these men. I mean today there are 1 billion Muslims and only about 16 million Jews. Only about 8 Muslims have won the Nobel prize for science and more than 200 Jews have won it.
actually some do. Ever heard of Stephen Wolfram ? Charles Fefferman ? Terence Tao ? Julian Schwinger ? Murray Gell-Mann ?
All these people are mathematicians or physicists who were child prodigies, and they all either won Nobel Prizes or Fields Medals (the highest possible honor in Mathematics).
Yes, because they were legitimately smart people. Terence Tao was famous for being the youngest gold-medal winner of the mathematical olympiads, not for graduating from a shitty college with an engineering degree.
This dull girl will accomplish nothing even close to what the people you listed did. Mark my words.
Just look at her mom, it's obvious she just has parents who push her too much. The people you listed wouldn't accept to appear on TV for being "teen geniuses"
So how do you know this girl isn't "legitimately smart" ? So what if she didn't graduate from a top school ? The schools she went to (SUNY Stony Brook and Drexel) are not that shitty.
Hell, Terence Tao did his undergrad at Flinders University, some shitty college in Australia. Charles Fefferman went to University of Maryland which is also kinda shitty. Just because Alia didn't go to harvard doesn't mean she has no potential, stop being a hater. You have no basis to your claims
So because it took her 4 years to get a BS, she's not smart ? Isn't it enough that she went to college at 10 ? Most geniuses I know took 4 years to graduate.
First of all, Flinders is one of the top Australian universities. Tao is now an internationally respected mathematician, just look at his list of awards: he gets shit done. Unlike Alia, who seems to just be hunting for fame and guiness records. What has she truly accomplished? Being a teacher at the age of 18 at a college that has a 5 bucks application fee? Good for her. Just look at the video of her being interviewed by Fox, and tell me if it looks like someone who's gonna accomplish anything
Looking at her wikipedia article now, she signed a ONE year contract to teach "technology" at some south korean university just to get her record set. She's clearly just hunting for records like the overpushed child that she is. She doesn't care about doing any actual research, because she'd probably fail at it, and the university probably didn't want her back anyway because they just wanted to have a world record set in their institution.
Ok I will agree with you that she IS a bit of a fame-hound, she even has her own website and was talking about writing a book. But that does not constitute conclusive evidence that she has no potential. I think you might just be misogynistic, if that was a boy up there, you'd never be saying these things. The fact that she's a girl does not automatically mean she can't achieve the things all those men I listed achieved. Anyone who can graduate summa cum laude in math at 14 has huge potential..
Ok, maybe I'm being a bit mysogynistic, I'll give you that. But I completely disagree with the "huge potential" comment. On the contrary, I think that she already HAS reached her full potential, due to the fact that her parents pushed her so much to be first at everything. A smart kid who goes to uni at 18 could have potential, but this girl already reached her full potential, and I don't think her potential would allow her to accomplish anything impressive.
also, she didn't study math, she studied engineering "and technology" at a state college.
But anyway, I think we could end our discussion here. 500 characters limit is really annoying and I don't think you could find new arguments to change my mind about her; and frankly, I don't really care if you want to think that she has great potential. Think what you want.
@notToast What do you mean "she didn't study math"? She got her honorary bachelor's degree in applied math. Then she moved to engineering.
Now, are you suggesting that applied math is not math?? You see, even mathematicians who were more interested in pure math, were also interested in its applications, like Archimedes... that's just a field of mathematics.
Write down my email, and send me mail the day she becomes half the person that the people you listed were. I'll be your fucking slave and treat you like a king for the rest of my life.
There's something I don't understand. If she's a super genius, why didn't she go to a better school than Stony Brook? Would more prestigious schools not take her?
That's the question I've always asked about many of these child geniuses. But what I discovered was that some schools won't accept kids because it's a liability. So perhaps she was qualified to attend Harvard but they refuses to take on the liability of admitting a minor. Some schools don't mind doing this as long as the parents sign some legal documents, and I guess SUNY Stony Brook might have been one such school. That's my guess. Either that, or she's not that smart
@angela1894, there's a long line getting into these prestigious college other than my kid's a genius. You know the routine, in every class or so there is a straight A's student. If these a-students can't get into harvard why would anyone let a child genius in if all they have is "My child is a genius" letter from mom.
Look, I don't know. It's not like all she had was a "my child is a genius" letter from her mom. I'm sure she took the SATs, had a high school record, etc. And I'm sure she used those to apply to top schools, and I'm sure they rejected her because she just wasn't harvard/MIT material. Don't get me wrong, she's a bright kid, bright for her age, but I believe she was pushed a little bit too hard, which is evidenced by the fact that she still hasn't been able to get her phd.
@angela1894, don't be offended. I am not attacking you or anything. I just was just adding to the conversation. I am sure she got a high school transcript and all. But then don't every other high school graduates?
What matter to these colleges is what you did, not what you are. Graduating early from school isn't much of an accomplishment these days.
someone sounds jealous...or maybe YOU are just not that smart. it's still college, no matter where she went. how often do we hear of kids going to college out of the FORTH grade?! and even more than: getting a PHD at age 16. don't undermine her capability just b/c you lack it.
dude look how she looks, like someone would want her in their college or university after they have shown her face on tv, she looks like moe from the simpsons
All of you out there who have commented negatively about this lovely and exceptionally talented girl are obviously jealous and you can not do anything about it. Just like; she can not do anything about her extraordinary power and ability.
Instead of making stupid comments you better search to find out why you are not as smart as her.
What you don't understand about genius is that we are not your slave to do your dirty work for you. You and us are both human. You have the same ability as us, but just running at a slower pace. You can still reach the goal. Don't expect us to use our brain (and time) to help humanity, instead get off your freaking sofa and do it yourself.
BTW, she isn't a child prodigy. She just a normal like you who got off her sofa! See you can do it too.
Why do most geniuses look semi retarded? Not as hygenic, and seemed disconnected in a way from the norm. I prefer to be regular, Good looking and ordinary. My sister is a geek. And she has a problem connecting with the rest of us at times.
because this is a make a wish foundation request; see, the kid is really retarded and she got her wish to be on tv appearing to be a genius. :o)))))))))
Her mother looks pretty weird aswell. I guess its cause they're disconnected from the norm is cause they think differently from everyone. Most people grow up learning the importance of hygeine, they grow up learning the importance of nickel as a catalyst lol.
kobeSpawn, some parents can tell if their kids seemed semi retarded or slow at an early age. When that happen some of the parents take teaching their kids into their hand as early as possible so that he or she won't be left behind. Some parents want other to believe they gave birth to a genius, not someone slow.
And since the world can't tell the difference between real and fake genius. Who knows?
Problems brings me out of balance and that makes my very motivated to work on it - not to get a medal - its an inner push - and if this effect depends on my iq you can bet i would like to give it away - of course: finding solutions others dont understand makes lonely - solving them also - but the hardes prob i ever solved brought me to awareness without using my brain.
How many kids geniuses have we seen in the news for the last 20-30 years? What happened to them? You never heard from them again. I kept hearing over and over again that even if you're a genius, you still must put in tons of efforts. My idea is different. Maybe they were never geniuses in the first place.
slappy, you're 100% right. Many kid geniuses never really go anywhere, especially the ones that are paraded around on TV. Case in point, Michael Kearney, Kim-Ung Yong, Bill Sidis, Rugh Lawrence, Balamurali Ambali, Sufiah Yusof, etc. They just kinda faded into obscurity. I think some of them were pushed hard by their parents. Most of these kids just get degrees from inferior schools so that they can claim to have degrees, I've never seen one of these prodigies at harvard or MIT.
where are child prodigies supposed to end up? i often hear people talk about "going somewhere" and "getting ahead" and all that -- what's that supposed to mean?
also, what makes you say that these gifted children get degrees at colleges just so that they can "claim to have degrees?"
When they say someone is "going somewhere", it means they don't know where he's going at all. "Getting ahead" pretty much means nothing. Getting ahead of what? Maybe that is why you don't get it either, cause the speaker don't know either. It's just cheap words that means nothing and is used to fill in the silence.
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Iranians are sneaky, not smart. They know how to lie to people very well.
If she's book smart, she should be in Princeton, not Stony Brook shithole. Then she should be in MIT for graduate work (for engineering), not in Drexel
@rmkNJ201 Since I don't see her wearing a burka, hijab or niqab, I'm seriously tempted to ask how you came up with the assumption that she is a Muslim? Bigotry is just a human trait, I'm sure if you spend time with the people you call "sneaky", you will see that a large majority of Iranians who live in the West are either not Muslims, or have a very secular life-style. By the way, A LOT of universally used science textbooks have been written by Drexel professors.
The greatest genius was Gauss, in my opinion. He was also a child prodigy, and when he was her age he solved a problem that baffled Euclid. In the whole history of scince I don't think there was a child so precocious as Gauss- by his own account he worked out the rudiments of arithmetic before he could talk!
Not quite true. William James Sidis was most likely the smartest human being on record. He passed the Harvard University Anatomy exam at the age of 6, and his IQ was estimated to be easily in the range of 250-320.
@ignatei and you think that a muslim is someone who has to wrap something on her head? you need some real education sister! who do you think avicenna, avenroses, abenhazen, ibn farabi, al jabr, ibn khaldun, mulla sadra---names you haven't possibly ever heard but without whose contribution in maths, physics or science you probably would still be hanging from a tree---had been? Muslims!!
No, I don't think like that. What I meant was, since she isn't wearing Islamic clothes, I can't tell if she is a professing Muslim. Therefore I am inclined to suspect that she is a non-Muslim like most Iranians born in the West.
@ignatei Listen, that's not the issue to bring up. There's nothing wrong with being a muslim. religion is a personal matter. Whether she is or is not shouldn't matter to all the other assholes bitching on this page. Nuff sed.
Oups, did a few typos. As a science student, I know how hard it is to master knowledge and produce new one. People think that these kids are the next great Albert Einstein because they play very good music and win multiple science fairs. The media make these kids look like the World's next hope and the rest of us (people who graduate from University at an average age) almost not worthy of acknowledgement. It took me a f***** load of work to get a 3.8/4.0 GPA. Especially, when you start at 2.0.
You know what's funny? Society praises these kids and good for them. However, most great scientific discoveries were made by "normal" people who had a vision and were determined. Look at Albert Einstein: before his law of Relativity, he was unbknown. Just some guy working at a patent office. Newton was an undisguished student at Cambridge and yet, he developed Calculus. Rutherford who was a farmer's son and became the father of nuclear physics. There is no real quick way.
They weren't "normal". If they were normal, they wouldn't have made such large contributions to humanity. They used their genius and WORKED hard as well. I don't know if you knew this but Newton WORKED 18 hours a day. The quicker you are, the more easily you get to where you want to be.
Look at Terence Tao. Mathematician. Winner of the MacArthur Genius grant, Fields Medal, etc. He was young but his talent was nurtured. He worked really hard. So they weren't just normal. It was a combination.
The only way to contribute enormously to humanity is to work hard. Genius or normals. But once a normal contribute enormously to humanity he is considered a genius. Afterall, would you call such a person normal? The lowest anyone would go is to say that person is super smart. Let's take a genius and normal person are dropped into a blank world. A genius learn to understand his world faster than a normal. But if a guide book is dropped into the normal's place. The normal could out do the genius.
Just because someone is a genius doesn't necessarily mean he wants to move quickly. Take for instance, we humans slacks around without motivation. And we know that motivations are usually in our external environments. Take Einstein for example, he was a lady's man. However, it was after he got famous that he attracted all those ladies' attention. But imagine if he had all the beautiful ladies before he was famous, do you think he would be wasting time doing E=mc2 instead of humping away?
It is impossible to make the assumption that one race is more intellectually superior then others. Caucasian is such a large race that it is impossible for it to be smarter then others. The range of people is so wide that genetically they are all different and cannot be compare to other races as a whole, the same goes for arab people as well. You cannot determine what her race is by watching this video. You should seek help to improve your spelling, 'Cos' is not a word.
IQ studies have been done on different races, and ashkenazi jews and east asians come out on top with the highest average IQ of any ethnic group. Whites average around an IQ of 100. African americans average about 85. These differences in average IQ of ethnic groups reflects in their level of accomplishment.. For example, jews only make up 2.5% of america, but they've won almost 30% of all nobel prizes.
Judaism is not a race, it is a religion. The reason that east Asians average the highest is not because of there genes, but because of their culture. They believe that it is very important to become successful, therefore they push their children to do well. Also, you must realize that these are averages of large amounts of people, it is not reflected in every single person of that race. It may also be because there genes tend to carry less genetic disorders effecting people's intelligence.
The Ashkenazi jews share the same religion, but they also share similar genes, they are a distinct ethnic group because all Ashkenazi jews in Europe and America descended from a handful of Sephardi jews that migrated to europe hundreds of years ago. That's why they share unique congenital diseases like Tay-Sachs and Torsion Dystonia.
About asians, studies have shown that even asian kids adopted by WHITE parents, and who grow up in WHITE culture still have higher IQs, so it's not about culture.
How do they share similar genes, anyone could convert to Judaism if thy wanted to
What do you mean by 'white culture'? Caucasians are such a large race that they do not share one specific culture, please be more specific when discussing certain cultures.
That is correct... Ashkenazi Jews are probably the most "intelligent" people out there. This has a lot to do with the survival patterns of Jews throughout periods of persecution spanning countless millennia. There was an excellent article in NYT which detailed this extensively. Asians are next in line. However, it seems that Asians are often lacking in the creativity department, which is probably a cultural, not genetic thing. And also one must distinguish between Asian groups, relative to IQ.
You cannot speak about a religion like you are, anyone can become any religion they please. Therefore, the Ashkenazi Jews are not a 'people', rather than various different cultural groups that came together and share religious beliefs. What are you basing your theory that asians lack creativity on?
She is not a genius. She has a crap degree from a crap college. Unless you go to an Ivy for engineering, its a degree where you spend most of your time copying off other people. The stuff you learn is so broad and trivial that any high school freshman could easily do it.
IMO: a genius in my book is someone who displays unusual creativity. If this girl was at that level, she wouldn't be at a State U. Looks like her parents have found all the shortcuts for their "prodigy."
I agree, she should have waited a while until she was ready to go to an ivy league school. However, you cannot define genius yourself, the definition of 'genius' is having an IQ of over 140. My IQ is 166, which puts me in the category of high genius. You should consider receiving help for your grammar and spelling.
So according to your definition, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Picasso, Nietzsche - just to name a few - all had IQ's above 140? Are you so clueless and brainwashed as to believe a millennia of genetic history and a lifetime of human experience can be measured accurately by some crap test that probably doesn't last more than 2 hours?
By the way, I'm glad you used your so-called IQ of 165 to spot a single grammatical error in my first post. Unfortunately, there were no spelling errors. You might want to use that great brain of yours to figure out the difference between spelling and grammar.
she has good parents
weijun16 3 days ago
She is amazing. And when she grew older she got hot :P
InMyLifetime2010 3 days ago
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This is a complete lie !! The youngest professor was Harvey Friedman who in 1967 became an assistant professor of philosophy at Stanford University three weeks before his 19th birthday. Alia Sabur became a professor (not really a professor, but actually a Research Liaison) 3 days before her 19th birthday. In fact, Harvey Friedman was in the Guinness Book of Records for decades as having been the youngest professor, just search Google Books for the phrase "Harvey Friedman Guinness"..
angela1894 3 weeks ago
Where is she originally from?
tusi1390 1 month ago
2:12 Alia Sabur: Oh I get it! Peace of cake!!! Chinese girl to the right: What the fuck?...
MagoMinelli 1 month ago
Ugly teeth
MagoMinelli 1 month ago
I wish I was in college at age 10, don't we all wish we didn't have to go through 12 years of schooling and just 4 years like her.
I envy her
animelovergal2002 1 month ago
It's easy to parse what she said. She's talking about bumping photons (from laser light) up against atoms to nudge them into place and in this way build nano sized objects/machines. Bouncing individual photons against atoms is how they achieve super cool temps, it's like taking your hand and blocking a ball here and there until they're all slowed down - at which point you have almost absolute zero (when atoms aren't moving or hardly vibrating at all).
ion010101 1 month ago
I hope she never regrets missing out on childhood.
atmhso 1 month ago
@atmhso she s too intelligent to enjoy childhood
deadpeng 1 month ago
@atmhso I envy the childhood she had. Supportive, reasoning parents seem increasingly rare.
ion010101 1 month ago
@atmhso Well childhood is all about learning and trying to work out who you are so really I don't think she has missed out on anything.
myradrealityshow 1 month ago
She's hot. I'd fuck her
shamelessfootfucker 1 month ago
I wonder if she'd let me have a sample of her DNA.
ion010101 1 month ago
WHW ONLY 14!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IAM 14 AND IAM SO DUMB!!!...... I THINK ITS BECAUSE OF RUNESCAPE AND MW3!! DAMN U RUNESCAPE.. NOT MW3 COZ I LIKE IT
hellotoeverone 1 month ago
@hellotoeverone Those games didn't make you dumb. Why you're attracted to playing them so much as to think they made you dumb does, however.
ToaoRaj 1 month ago
HIMURA!! HIMURA!!
this5is5a5pen 2 months ago
she's pretty cute.
tha1ne 2 months ago
what is she doing now?
CalumnMcAulay 2 months ago
@CalumnMcAulay being the youngest professor :P
violetflowers 1 month ago
@CalumnMcAulay
She is the world's youngest professor, and if that wasn't enough, she is working on a research to cure cancer.
caamelaihan 1 month ago
So smart but can't blow out a candle! I'm just playing... Great job kiddo.
HappysTreeServices 2 months ago
@maxgun55 she does sound weird
dipshit2k10 2 months ago
why do people hype up being able to play an instrument thats been around for hundreds of years. its getting old.
maxgunn555 3 months ago
the interviewer's making her sound weird.
maxgunn555 3 months ago
another hoax. next vid
Neueregel 3 months ago
They have a bad definition of genius...
Physical1Cognitive 3 months ago
Turns out she left Drexel without getting a PhD. Claims her inventions were stolen by her advisor.
angela1894 3 months ago
I wonder how many geniuses actually exist that go unnoticed because of poverty or poor education.
007MrYang 4 months ago
@007MrYang None. Kids who are neglected have unstable, unsupportive home lives. Plenty of parents who aren't rich are supportive and provide a stable home life. It's just so happens that most parents who are not supportive or competent are also "poor".
ion010101 4 months ago
PERSIAN BEAUTY
PERSIAN CULTURE
PERSIAN HISTORY
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PERSIAN FOOD
...PERSIAN BRAIN :)
PersianQueenz 4 months ago
@PersianQueenz fuck persia
MrSaad1932 3 months ago
@MrSaad1932 FUCK ARABIA :)
PersianQueenz 3 months ago
@PersianQueenz persains aint arabs... jeez
MrSaad1932 3 months ago
man i was a math expert back when was still a spermatozoid living in my father's testicles..
Modafuckaz 4 months ago
CHRIST! Who hit her with the ugly stick?!?!?!?!?
openuniverse2003 4 months ago
WOW!!!! I love these child prodigious talents.
noblesiner 4 months ago
bullshit and 'stuff
bomartable 4 months ago
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Zman14888 5 months ago
When the fuck would you need nano photonics in real life?
imgame2121 6 months ago
@puffballandres How would you know, fuckface?
ab0d3ba093 6 months ago
Well isn't everything all fine and dandy for her. But... something about her really bugs me...a lot... it makes me want to throw up.
QBisbest 7 months ago
IQ isn't everything. I have an IQ higher than Stephen Hawking and I'm just another student. Keep in mind that test was taken when I was 5, too. I can do shit faster than anyone I know but I just cbf most of the time.
Blobface07 7 months ago
@Blobface07 annd you're gay.
ab0d3ba093 6 months ago
@ab0d3ba093 Well spotted, I am.
Blobface07 6 months ago
@Blobface07 lol cool story bro.
patugi 5 months ago
@Blobface07 iq is just a measure of intelligence relative to your age. it's your intelligence quotient. brain age/age*100.
lbjmj2pac 5 months ago
i dont believe she is naturally smarter then anybody.....she was simply interested before anyone around her
SteadeeB 8 months ago
0:33 through 0:36 = Problem with teenagers
CountOpaco 8 months ago
what I don't understand is... yes back in history people with the highest of IQ's contributed the most but nowadays people with the highest of IQ's do not contribute so much today, the founder of DNA apparently had a IQ of 120... Einstein had a IQ of 195.. I can tell you even though they may be a genius unfortunately I doubt the human race will benefit much from geniuses in the future as the unintelligent are greatly outnumbering and outbreeding the intelligent...
WelshMuay 9 months ago
@WelshMuay Einstien has an IQ of 160, not 195.
xqSoccer 9 months ago
@xqSoccer depends what scale you measure of, for example a Binet test in America, the SD is much different to perhaps one administered in the UK, but if you say his IQ is 160, then back to my point the founder of DNA's IQ would be around perhaps 105
WelshMuay 9 months ago
@WelshMuay , the reason you don't understand is because IQ tests are failed attempt in measuring intelligence. It's not just you, but people in here don't seem to grasp the different between genius and educated.
slappyd1ck 8 months ago
@WelshMuay IQ tests are inaccurate. The true way of identifying gifted people is through characteristics they share, not through silly tests
Traviskolber 7 months ago
@Traviskolber yes I understand that, how can someone identify a genius or someone with higher IQ than themselves?
WelshMuay 7 months ago
she needs some makeup and a haircut
ColacX 9 months ago
she doesn't really look 14, kinda looks like an old lady actually with a growth disorder
PurexOvvnage 10 months ago
she is so full of herself. anyone agree? whatever..
tokome 10 months ago
where do these ppl go when they get old? they disappear, you never hear from, you think they will change the world or contribute a lot, but they disappear.
Gutsyndicate 10 months ago
@Gutsyndicate , most of these geniuses aren't real geniuses. They are just educated kids. You can teach your kids anything.
slappyd1ck 10 months ago
@Gutsyndicate Generally gifted give up on humanity around the age of 12-14, when they begin to discover our species is a piece of shit. I gave up a year and a half ago, and I don't plan on contributing. I know several others who also gave up recently.
Traviskolber 7 months ago
she may be autistic savant.
Gutsyndicate 10 months ago
@Gutsyndicate This is highly unlikely. She doesn't seem to possess any obsessive qualities other than being really smart. High functioning savants would also be classified as having asperger's syndrome, which again, she doesn't appear to have because of what I said earlier. She's just really smart.
Michael326 8 months ago
oh my GODDDD,, how that s possible ,
beryes 11 months ago
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd
BstmKsander 11 months ago
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she looks old!!
amr2286 1 year ago
@ectomorphman lmao. take THAT Miss Nanophotonics!
ThomasTravolta 1 year ago
i agree she's not a super genius, but why is everyone hating on stony brook? they have a pretty damn good math program. she could have also gone there to reduce cost.
given her current performance, i don't think she's amazing, but she is very smart, or at least motivated
EltBerserker 1 year ago
@EltBerserker Are you fking KIDDING me? No. People who graduated top of their classes at normal ages were "very smart." Starting Ph.D. studies at age 14 is far beyond VERY smart. And you really think "motivation" is all it takes to learn to read at a third grade reading level 3-4 years before most kids start learning how to sound out their ABCs in kindergarten?
ThomasTravolta 1 year ago
attention whore
aljoshabre 1 year ago
@aljoshabre jealous
Bumblybee256 10 months ago
Why do all geniuses look retarted?
toolover10 1 year ago 2
@toolover10 We don't.
Traviskolber 7 months ago
Silly woman, no one talks about Britney Spears anymore, hahaha.
lindseyfluff 1 year ago
she smiles too much to be a genius
gatoradeee 1 year ago
@gatoradeee not true, stephen hawkings smiles all the time :)
amr2286 1 year ago
they're going to have to teach her how to talk clearer so people can understand here when she explains nanophotonics
kanwan4 1 year ago
There are 11 stupid here ;))
tomspeed2005 1 year ago
Mankind's dream is coming true through her!!!
moyusarang 1 year ago
"when in kindergarten, everyone was learning to read and i was reading the whole book."
"speaking & reading at 8 months"
that's exactly what happened to me, too.
marissa910 1 year ago
@marissa910 OMG THEN YOU MUST BE A FUCNKIN' GENIUS!
WheresTheAnyKey1 1 year ago
@WheresTheAnyKey1 haha. :)
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Children of Iran, they shine wherever they are, Long live our beloved Iran, hopefully all Iranians come back home to serve their nation, hope for democracy in Iran.
azerigull 1 year ago
Terence Tao > This girl.
pochankitty 1 year ago 79
Who is Kim Ung-yong he go college at 3 and speaking 3 diffrent language at 3 ^^ IQ 210
Myballsbiggerthenu 1 year ago
most musicians are very intelligent. they just lead most people on as if they're not. music forever!!!!
themindfuck 1 year ago 4
Seriously! Now a days, in this fuckd up generation, nobody gives a shit if she's a genius!
jvboy88 1 year ago
She was reading books at 2?!Thats when i discovered my dick
DeeDub02 1 year ago 50
@DeeDub02 hahahahah
briguylf11 9 months ago
@DeeDub02 You don't have a dick, asshole.
Lolaxas 3 months ago
@Lolaxas It was in your mums ass last night.
DeeDub02 3 months ago
Yes, I have heard of all those names before. They were all great thinkers centuries ago. It's a shame that Muslim science went down hill soon after these men. I mean today there are 1 billion Muslims and only about 16 million Jews. Only about 8 Muslims have won the Nobel prize for science and more than 200 Jews have won it.
ignatei 1 year ago
excellent role model for future american muslim girls as well...go sister go!!
aburashdan 1 year ago 2
yes; but i'm having way more fun in university!
purecuIt 1 year ago
in estonia no matter ho smart u are you cant end school erlyer
declice 1 year ago
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If she is not a Muslim she has no sense and it brain dead.
WorldIslamicOrder 1 year ago
her intelligence is probably overrated, if she's that intelligent, she should already be in Harvard or MIT or Princeton
shirusubemonaku 1 year ago
@shirusubemonaku Agreed.
jameswp266 1 year ago
if she's so smart why did it take her 4 years to get her B.S?
I call BS on this. "Geniuses" solve problems smartily. They don't graduate from college at 14.
notToast 2 years ago
@notToast, ahmen brother!
MmmhMarky 2 years ago
@notToast
actually some do. Ever heard of Stephen Wolfram ? Charles Fefferman ? Terence Tao ? Julian Schwinger ? Murray Gell-Mann ?
All these people are mathematicians or physicists who were child prodigies, and they all either won Nobel Prizes or Fields Medals (the highest possible honor in Mathematics).
angela1894 1 year ago
Yes, because they were legitimately smart people. Terence Tao was famous for being the youngest gold-medal winner of the mathematical olympiads, not for graduating from a shitty college with an engineering degree.
This dull girl will accomplish nothing even close to what the people you listed did. Mark my words.
Just look at her mom, it's obvious she just has parents who push her too much. The people you listed wouldn't accept to appear on TV for being "teen geniuses"
notToast 1 year ago
@notToast
So how do you know this girl isn't "legitimately smart" ? So what if she didn't graduate from a top school ? The schools she went to (SUNY Stony Brook and Drexel) are not that shitty.
Hell, Terence Tao did his undergrad at Flinders University, some shitty college in Australia. Charles Fefferman went to University of Maryland which is also kinda shitty. Just because Alia didn't go to harvard doesn't mean she has no potential, stop being a hater. You have no basis to your claims
angela1894 1 year ago
@notToast
So because it took her 4 years to get a BS, she's not smart ? Isn't it enough that she went to college at 10 ? Most geniuses I know took 4 years to graduate.
angela1894 1 year ago
First of all, Flinders is one of the top Australian universities. Tao is now an internationally respected mathematician, just look at his list of awards: he gets shit done. Unlike Alia, who seems to just be hunting for fame and guiness records. What has she truly accomplished? Being a teacher at the age of 18 at a college that has a 5 bucks application fee? Good for her. Just look at the video of her being interviewed by Fox, and tell me if it looks like someone who's gonna accomplish anything
notToast 1 year ago
@notToast I agree. Terence Tao is the man! That guy is one of the younget Fields Medal recipients and he had IMO gold medal at the age of 13.
CharlesLuckyLuciano 1 year ago
Looking at her wikipedia article now, she signed a ONE year contract to teach "technology" at some south korean university just to get her record set. She's clearly just hunting for records like the overpushed child that she is. She doesn't care about doing any actual research, because she'd probably fail at it, and the university probably didn't want her back anyway because they just wanted to have a world record set in their institution.
notToast 1 year ago
Ok I will agree with you that she IS a bit of a fame-hound, she even has her own website and was talking about writing a book. But that does not constitute conclusive evidence that she has no potential. I think you might just be misogynistic, if that was a boy up there, you'd never be saying these things. The fact that she's a girl does not automatically mean she can't achieve the things all those men I listed achieved. Anyone who can graduate summa cum laude in math at 14 has huge potential..
angela1894 1 year ago
Ok, maybe I'm being a bit mysogynistic, I'll give you that. But I completely disagree with the "huge potential" comment. On the contrary, I think that she already HAS reached her full potential, due to the fact that her parents pushed her so much to be first at everything. A smart kid who goes to uni at 18 could have potential, but this girl already reached her full potential, and I don't think her potential would allow her to accomplish anything impressive.
notToast 1 year ago
also, she didn't study math, she studied engineering "and technology" at a state college.
But anyway, I think we could end our discussion here. 500 characters limit is really annoying and I don't think you could find new arguments to change my mind about her; and frankly, I don't really care if you want to think that she has great potential. Think what you want.
notToast 1 year ago
@notToast What do you mean "she didn't study math"? She got her honorary bachelor's degree in applied math. Then she moved to engineering.
Now, are you suggesting that applied math is not math?? You see, even mathematicians who were more interested in pure math, were also interested in its applications, like Archimedes... that's just a field of mathematics.
ignatei 1 year ago
Write down my email, and send me mail the day she becomes half the person that the people you listed were. I'll be your fucking slave and treat you like a king for the rest of my life.
notToast 1 year ago
There's something I don't understand. If she's a super genius, why didn't she go to a better school than Stony Brook? Would more prestigious schools not take her?
redetrigan 2 years ago
That's the question I've always asked about many of these child geniuses. But what I discovered was that some schools won't accept kids because it's a liability. So perhaps she was qualified to attend Harvard but they refuses to take on the liability of admitting a minor. Some schools don't mind doing this as long as the parents sign some legal documents, and I guess SUNY Stony Brook might have been one such school. That's my guess. Either that, or she's not that smart
angela1894 2 years ago 5
@angela1894, there's a long line getting into these prestigious college other than my kid's a genius. You know the routine, in every class or so there is a straight A's student. If these a-students can't get into harvard why would anyone let a child genius in if all they have is "My child is a genius" letter from mom.
MmmhMarky 2 years ago
Look, I don't know. It's not like all she had was a "my child is a genius" letter from her mom. I'm sure she took the SATs, had a high school record, etc. And I'm sure she used those to apply to top schools, and I'm sure they rejected her because she just wasn't harvard/MIT material. Don't get me wrong, she's a bright kid, bright for her age, but I believe she was pushed a little bit too hard, which is evidenced by the fact that she still hasn't been able to get her phd.
angela1894 2 years ago
@angela1894, don't be offended. I am not attacking you or anything. I just was just adding to the conversation. I am sure she got a high school transcript and all. But then don't every other high school graduates?
What matter to these colleges is what you did, not what you are. Graduating early from school isn't much of an accomplishment these days.
I agree. She's just another pushed child.
MmmhMarky 2 years ago
@angela1894
someone sounds jealous...or maybe YOU are just not that smart. it's still college, no matter where she went. how often do we hear of kids going to college out of the FORTH grade?! and even more than: getting a PHD at age 16. don't undermine her capability just b/c you lack it.
4435tjtruth 1 year ago
dude look how she looks, like someone would want her in their college or university after they have shown her face on tv, she looks like moe from the simpsons
goldengoat55555 2 years ago
@goldengoat55555
She looks fine
RobH081 1 year ago
All of you out there who have commented negatively about this lovely and exceptionally talented girl are obviously jealous and you can not do anything about it. Just like; she can not do anything about her extraordinary power and ability.
Instead of making stupid comments you better search to find out why you are not as smart as her.
masoudroomi 2 years ago
masoudroomi, I was a gifted child too.
What you don't understand about genius is that we are not your slave to do your dirty work for you. You and us are both human. You have the same ability as us, but just running at a slower pace. You can still reach the goal. Don't expect us to use our brain (and time) to help humanity, instead get off your freaking sofa and do it yourself.
BTW, she isn't a child prodigy. She just a normal like you who got off her sofa! See you can do it too.
slappyd1ck 2 years ago
@slappyd1ck - dude you are AMAZING...in fact, YOU"RE A FREAKIN GENIUS!!! I bet you're smoking on something for your wits though
KobeSpawn 2 years ago
Kobe, I'll take that bet. Let's place a couple of grand on that bet, ok?
slappyd1ck 2 years ago
ok so let me get this straight she stareted talking when she was 8 months! she looks really weird
Roxygirl387 2 years ago
shes kinda cute
readi1 2 years ago
Why do most geniuses look semi retarded? Not as hygenic, and seemed disconnected in a way from the norm. I prefer to be regular, Good looking and ordinary. My sister is a geek. And she has a problem connecting with the rest of us at times.
KobeSpawn 2 years ago
because this is a make a wish foundation request; see, the kid is really retarded and she got her wish to be on tv appearing to be a genius. :o)))))))))
marcriganoskate 2 years ago
Her mother looks pretty weird aswell. I guess its cause they're disconnected from the norm is cause they think differently from everyone. Most people grow up learning the importance of hygeine, they grow up learning the importance of nickel as a catalyst lol.
SousukePanic 2 years ago
kobeSpawn, some parents can tell if their kids seemed semi retarded or slow at an early age. When that happen some of the parents take teaching their kids into their hand as early as possible so that he or she won't be left behind. Some parents want other to believe they gave birth to a genius, not someone slow.
And since the world can't tell the difference between real and fake genius. Who knows?
slappyd1ck 2 years ago
@KobeSpawn We don't.
Traviskolber 7 months ago
Problems brings me out of balance and that makes my very motivated to work on it - not to get a medal - its an inner push - and if this effect depends on my iq you can bet i would like to give it away - of course: finding solutions others dont understand makes lonely - solving them also - but the hardes prob i ever solved brought me to awareness without using my brain.
TalmaPai 2 years ago
How many kids geniuses have we seen in the news for the last 20-30 years? What happened to them? You never heard from them again. I kept hearing over and over again that even if you're a genius, you still must put in tons of efforts. My idea is different. Maybe they were never geniuses in the first place.
slappyd1ck 2 years ago
slappy, you're 100% right. Many kid geniuses never really go anywhere, especially the ones that are paraded around on TV. Case in point, Michael Kearney, Kim-Ung Yong, Bill Sidis, Rugh Lawrence, Balamurali Ambali, Sufiah Yusof, etc. They just kinda faded into obscurity. I think some of them were pushed hard by their parents. Most of these kids just get degrees from inferior schools so that they can claim to have degrees, I've never seen one of these prodigies at harvard or MIT.
mozart20dlubos 2 years ago
where are child prodigies supposed to end up? i often hear people talk about "going somewhere" and "getting ahead" and all that -- what's that supposed to mean?
also, what makes you say that these gifted children get degrees at colleges just so that they can "claim to have degrees?"
marcriganoskate 2 years ago
marcriganoskate,
When they say someone is "going somewhere", it means they don't know where he's going at all. "Getting ahead" pretty much means nothing. Getting ahead of what? Maybe that is why you don't get it either, cause the speaker don't know either. It's just cheap words that means nothing and is used to fill in the silence.
slappyd1ck 2 years ago
that's obvious. they are rhetorical questions for "mozart20dlubos"
but thanks for the effort.
marcriganoskate 2 years ago
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I am deeply proud of her as an Iranian-American citizen....
amir20002 2 years ago
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amir20002 2 years ago
she is IRANIAN dude,,so wise
bahador666 2 years ago 2
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Iranians are sneaky, not smart. They know how to lie to people very well.
If she's book smart, she should be in Princeton, not Stony Brook shithole. Then she should be in MIT for graduate work (for engineering), not in Drexel
Muslims always think they are brilliant
rmkNJ201 1 year ago
@rmkNJ201 Since I don't see her wearing a burka, hijab or niqab, I'm seriously tempted to ask how you came up with the assumption that she is a Muslim? Bigotry is just a human trait, I'm sure if you spend time with the people you call "sneaky", you will see that a large majority of Iranians who live in the West are either not Muslims, or have a very secular life-style. By the way, A LOT of universally used science textbooks have been written by Drexel professors.
ignatei 1 year ago
The greatest genius was Gauss, in my opinion. He was also a child prodigy, and when he was her age he solved a problem that baffled Euclid. In the whole history of scince I don't think there was a child so precocious as Gauss- by his own account he worked out the rudiments of arithmetic before he could talk!
ignatei 1 year ago 2
Not quite true. William James Sidis was most likely the smartest human being on record. He passed the Harvard University Anatomy exam at the age of 6, and his IQ was estimated to be easily in the range of 250-320.
stoogefest16 8 months ago
@ignatei and you think that a muslim is someone who has to wrap something on her head? you need some real education sister! who do you think avicenna, avenroses, abenhazen, ibn farabi, al jabr, ibn khaldun, mulla sadra---names you haven't possibly ever heard but without whose contribution in maths, physics or science you probably would still be hanging from a tree---had been? Muslims!!
aburashdan 1 year ago
@aburashdan
No, I don't think like that. What I meant was, since she isn't wearing Islamic clothes, I can't tell if she is a professing Muslim. Therefore I am inclined to suspect that she is a non-Muslim like most Iranians born in the West.
ignatei 1 year ago
@ignatei Listen, that's not the issue to bring up. There's nothing wrong with being a muslim. religion is a personal matter. Whether she is or is not shouldn't matter to all the other assholes bitching on this page. Nuff sed.
rlinfinity 1 year ago
@ignatei rmknj201 is a moron
rlinfinity 1 year ago
Oups, did a few typos. As a science student, I know how hard it is to master knowledge and produce new one. People think that these kids are the next great Albert Einstein because they play very good music and win multiple science fairs. The media make these kids look like the World's next hope and the rest of us (people who graduate from University at an average age) almost not worthy of acknowledgement. It took me a f***** load of work to get a 3.8/4.0 GPA. Especially, when you start at 2.0.
260191894 2 years ago
You know what's funny? Society praises these kids and good for them. However, most great scientific discoveries were made by "normal" people who had a vision and were determined. Look at Albert Einstein: before his law of Relativity, he was unbknown. Just some guy working at a patent office. Newton was an undisguished student at Cambridge and yet, he developed Calculus. Rutherford who was a farmer's son and became the father of nuclear physics. There is no real quick way.
260191894 2 years ago
They weren't "normal". If they were normal, they wouldn't have made such large contributions to humanity. They used their genius and WORKED hard as well. I don't know if you knew this but Newton WORKED 18 hours a day. The quicker you are, the more easily you get to where you want to be.
Look at Terence Tao. Mathematician. Winner of the MacArthur Genius grant, Fields Medal, etc. He was young but his talent was nurtured. He worked really hard. So they weren't just normal. It was a combination.
MrEinsteinz 2 years ago
Also, Leibiniz created his Calculus in 2 months.
MrEinsteinz 2 years ago
The only way to contribute enormously to humanity is to work hard. Genius or normals. But once a normal contribute enormously to humanity he is considered a genius. Afterall, would you call such a person normal? The lowest anyone would go is to say that person is super smart. Let's take a genius and normal person are dropped into a blank world. A genius learn to understand his world faster than a normal. But if a guide book is dropped into the normal's place. The normal could out do the genius.
slappyd1ck 2 years ago
Just because someone is a genius doesn't necessarily mean he wants to move quickly. Take for instance, we humans slacks around without motivation. And we know that motivations are usually in our external environments. Take Einstein for example, he was a lady's man. However, it was after he got famous that he attracted all those ladies' attention. But imagine if he had all the beautiful ladies before he was famous, do you think he would be wasting time doing E=mc2 instead of humping away?
slappyd1ck 2 years ago
If he was a king of a country, do you think he would be working hard on laws of RELATIVITY or would that be the furthest thing on his mind?
slappyd1ck 2 years ago
whoa, dude...not everyone is as lecherous as you. just 'cause you'd live in hedonistic abandon doesn't mean that he would.
richard feynman is a good example of someone who had wild orgies and yet worked hard. you're talking like a madman! :o)
marcriganoskate 2 years ago
She'd die as a virgin.
youngnewtonian 2 years ago
She's getting a PHD before she even gets PMS.
Jadakra 2 years ago 62
@Jadakra hahahahaha, that was great!
21ardalan 1 year ago
what kinda of genius is cross eyed and can berely talk
lilblitz 2 years ago
u r just jealous!
u mean paris hilton and britney spears are geniuses?!
LOOOOOOOL
MrSeasharp 2 years ago
She seems pretty nice. Its nice she doesn't rub in other people's faces that she's really smart like other do.
AKUI2008 2 years ago 2
She's smart cos she's half-white and half-arab
angela1894 2 years ago
It is impossible to make the assumption that one race is more intellectually superior then others. Caucasian is such a large race that it is impossible for it to be smarter then others. The range of people is so wide that genetically they are all different and cannot be compare to other races as a whole, the same goes for arab people as well. You cannot determine what her race is by watching this video. You should seek help to improve your spelling, 'Cos' is not a word.
MathLover314 2 years ago
IQ studies have been done on different races, and ashkenazi jews and east asians come out on top with the highest average IQ of any ethnic group. Whites average around an IQ of 100. African americans average about 85. These differences in average IQ of ethnic groups reflects in their level of accomplishment.. For example, jews only make up 2.5% of america, but they've won almost 30% of all nobel prizes.
angela1894 2 years ago
Judaism is not a race, it is a religion. The reason that east Asians average the highest is not because of there genes, but because of their culture. They believe that it is very important to become successful, therefore they push their children to do well. Also, you must realize that these are averages of large amounts of people, it is not reflected in every single person of that race. It may also be because there genes tend to carry less genetic disorders effecting people's intelligence.
MathLover314 2 years ago
The Ashkenazi jews share the same religion, but they also share similar genes, they are a distinct ethnic group because all Ashkenazi jews in Europe and America descended from a handful of Sephardi jews that migrated to europe hundreds of years ago. That's why they share unique congenital diseases like Tay-Sachs and Torsion Dystonia.
About asians, studies have shown that even asian kids adopted by WHITE parents, and who grow up in WHITE culture still have higher IQs, so it's not about culture.
angela1894 2 years ago
How do they share similar genes, anyone could convert to Judaism if thy wanted to
What do you mean by 'white culture'? Caucasians are such a large race that they do not share one specific culture, please be more specific when discussing certain cultures.
MathLover314 2 years ago
That is correct... Ashkenazi Jews are probably the most "intelligent" people out there. This has a lot to do with the survival patterns of Jews throughout periods of persecution spanning countless millennia. There was an excellent article in NYT which detailed this extensively. Asians are next in line. However, it seems that Asians are often lacking in the creativity department, which is probably a cultural, not genetic thing. And also one must distinguish between Asian groups, relative to IQ.
mgunar104 2 years ago
You cannot speak about a religion like you are, anyone can become any religion they please. Therefore, the Ashkenazi Jews are not a 'people', rather than various different cultural groups that came together and share religious beliefs. What are you basing your theory that asians lack creativity on?
MathLover314 2 years ago
She is not a genius. She has a crap degree from a crap college. Unless you go to an Ivy for engineering, its a degree where you spend most of your time copying off other people. The stuff you learn is so broad and trivial that any high school freshman could easily do it.
IMO: a genius in my book is someone who displays unusual creativity. If this girl was at that level, she wouldn't be at a State U. Looks like her parents have found all the shortcuts for their "prodigy."
mgunar 2 years ago
I agree, she should have waited a while until she was ready to go to an ivy league school. However, you cannot define genius yourself, the definition of 'genius' is having an IQ of over 140. My IQ is 166, which puts me in the category of high genius. You should consider receiving help for your grammar and spelling.
MathLover314 2 years ago
You're a liar mathlover, IQ tests only go up to 160 or 164.
angela1894 2 years ago
So according to your definition, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Picasso, Nietzsche - just to name a few - all had IQ's above 140? Are you so clueless and brainwashed as to believe a millennia of genetic history and a lifetime of human experience can be measured accurately by some crap test that probably doesn't last more than 2 hours?
mgunar104 2 years ago
By the way, I'm glad you used your so-called IQ of 165 to spot a single grammatical error in my first post. Unfortunately, there were no spelling errors. You might want to use that great brain of yours to figure out the difference between spelling and grammar.
mgunar104 2 years ago
Spelling is an aspect of grammar, and I said that I have an IQ of 166, not 165.
MathLover314 2 years ago
Spelling is not an aspect of grammar.