A Los Angeles 2-year-old became the youngest member of American Mensa after receiving a remarkably high IQ score.
Kashe Quest got a score of 146, according to a Tuesday report from local news outlet Fox 11.
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“We started to notice her memory was really great. And she just picked up things really fast, and she was really interested in learning,” Sukhjit Athwal, Quest’s mother, told the outlet. “At about 17, 18 months, she had recognized all the alphabet, numbers, colors, and shapes.”
In order to qualify for membership with Mensa, a high IQ society, individuals must score “within the upper 2% of the general population on an approved intelligence test.”
Different IQ tests yield different ranges of results. It is unclear which test was taken by Quest, but the Stanford-Binet test, one of the most commonly used IQ tests, considers 100 points to be an average score.
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American Mensa has over 50,000 members.
Quest is already learning to read, can identify all 50 states by shape, is learning Spanish, knows over 50 signs in sign language, can count to 100, and can identify elements on the periodic table by their symbols, according to the California outlet.
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“At the end of the day … she’s in that toddler stage. So, she very much is still a normal 2-year-old, where, you know, we have negotiations, we have tantrums. The way we communicate with her, it has to be different because she’s able to understand just a little bit more,” Athwal said, adding, “I think one of the biggest things with me and her daughter are making sure she has a childhood and we don’t force anything on her too early. We’re kind of going at her pace, and we want to just make sure that she is youthful for as long as she can be.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to Mensa for a statement but did not immediately hear back.
