K, six years old, threw his examiners back on their heels with a score of 196. According to Samuel Goldberg, a member of the clinic, only one child in a million can ever hope to attain such a rating.
GIGANTIC MENTALITIES
Newspaper readers were just beginning to battle their way out of the inferiority complexes that descended upon them with this news when they encountered a second amazing concentration of brains in one small head.
Yesterday a mother who couldn’t keep a secret that has been burning in her bosom for many years finally gave way to her natural instincts and told all to the press, whose appetite for prodigies was whetted by the K announcement.
She revealed that her son, known anonymously as X or Bunny, had it all over K from here at least to the moon. In tests given Bunny by the Child Guidance Bureau of the Board of Education, the Terman – Binet -Simon tests, the lad, who is seven and a half years old, scored the unheard-of rating of 230.
This rating, the psychologists who are striving thus mightily to uncover tomorrow’s supermen point out, is a mere twenty-five points above that credited to Prof. Albert Einstein. Prof. Einstein, it may be recalled, is the author of the relativity theory which only a handful of persons in the world profess to understand, and is generally regarded as possessing the most brilliant mind known to humanity.
SCOFFERS SCOFF
Both K and X are the children of Jewish parents. In each case the parents are in humble circumstances. The names of both tots are being kept secret from the public in order to avoid exploitation of their genius.
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