Guildford toddler Karina Oakley has IQ of 160

A Guildford toddler with an IQ of 160 is believed to be among the top 0.03% of the smartest two-year-olds in the country.

Karina Oakley, who lives with her mother in Stoughton, enjoys dressing up and playing with her toys like other little girls, but an expert child psychologist has found her mental age is the equivalent of a child between the age of four and five.

And her memory, verbal and reasoning skills mean she has an IQ 60 points above the country’s average of 100.

Karina’s mother, Charlotte Fraser, said: “I took her up to London to see Professor Joan Freeman, mainly because I’d seen a programme about child geniuses.

“Quite a lot of people had said to me that Karina is quite smart, quite bright, quite clear with her speech and quick to pick things up.

Rare people such as this child created the TV, the Internet, the Computer, the Telephone, The Car, The Airplane, etc. and they were all White!

“So I looked Professor Freeman up on the internet, and gave her a call to see if she would see her and get her tested, it was just a bit of fun really.”

Karina, who turns three this summer, was asked to question numbers and complete challenges in several different categories, including verbal ability, memory, handling a pencil and numbers and shapes.

After the test, the professor concluded: “Karina is a lovely, responsive and friendly little girl. She is more than very bright and capable, she is gifted.

And she added: “Karina enjoyed the test. The pleasure she took in the mental challenge in itself I have found to be a sign of intelligence. She is a courteous and responsive little girl, who takes pleasure in learning.”

The professor found that Karina had a special bias towards words, with a “wonderful imagination”.

According to Professor Freeman, her IQ is likely to change as Karina gets older, but at this point it is more likely to go up rather than down.

“Very observant”

Describing Karina, her mother Charlotte added: “She has a very good memory. She seems to be quite aware of her surroundings, what’s going on around her, she’s very observant, she talks all the time, asks questions all the time.

“The nature verses nurture argument is a very interesting one.

“I have stayed at home with her for almost three years, I have always talked to her a lot, always tried to answer her questions, we do a lot of things, we go to the park and we are part of various groups, that must make a difference.

“I don’t know whether it’s that, combined with something that she was born with.”

She added: “I just think of her as Karina, I don’t have anyone to compare her to.”

Ms Fraser used to work in marketing and Karina’s father Nick is a computer programmer.

Professor Freeman used the Stanford-Binet IQ test, originally devised by Alfred Binet at the beginning of the century.

Karina’s score of 160 was arrived at by converting a single raw score for the entire test to a figure indicating mental age.

The professor then used a formula to arrive at the IQ figure. An IQ of 100 means that the child’s chronological and mental ages match. Traditionally, scores of 90 to 109 are considered average and anything above 140 is gifted.

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