Noncompositional

I just saw a story on the Today show about Pranav Veera, in the news recently due to being six years old and having a 176 IQ. The story showed the reporter quizzing Pranav on various topics of the child’s interest (order and terms of US presidents), as well as several other varieties of trivia and date-related math questions (e.g., December 12th 2003 was what day of the week?).

I got really curious when the reporter said that Pranav’s intellect was not just about memorization and arithmetical ability: he actually had a grasp of logic that (some) adults don’t have. I was looking forward to how they would show this — for about one second. Then, cut to the reporter asking Pranav to recite the alphabet backwards.

Thanks, Today. Really informative.