Well, personally, I'm bothered by equating very high IQs with Einstein and with putting very smart kids on pedastals. People can get hurt when they fall off, you know.
I don't think anyone actually knows Einstein's IQ; I've dug for this occasionally and find lots of estimates. Thing is, he was in his 20s when Binet created the first formal IQ test (it was for kids, I think), so...there you are.
Anyway, many high-IQ kids who get compared to Einstein have IQs around 160, or a rarity of about 1:30,000 or so (
here's an example).
Here's another one.
Stating the obvious: if all it took to be the next Einstein was a very high IQ, we should be terraforming in Andromeda galaxy and manipulating spacetime by now. There are >200,000 people this smart on the planet
right now. It's not many compared to seven billion, but it's a lot compared to one guy named Einstein. And his success is attributed to more than just having a high IQ (whatever it was). He was also very creative and was comfortable challenging dogma, among other things.
Oh, I recently got an email from Great Schools that implied that my son's previous school was racist because they tested kids and put them in math classes that were at their ability levels, so I'm a bit dubious about how serious your organization is about getting the facts right. Especially given, you know, the mix of races and ethnic groups in all the math classes there.
