Intelligence has been defined in many different ways such as in terms of one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving.
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Does Lego increase a child's IQ?
The Sun reports:
PLAYING with Lego can make people BRAINIER, bosses claimed yesterday.
A study found that those who are experts with the toy building bricks are more agile with their hands and solve problems faster than the average person.
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Did US intelligence community ever claim that Iraq had WMDs prior to 2003 inavsion?
The "common knowledge" is that US went to war with Iraq in 2003 based on "intelligence reports" claiming that Iraq had active Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) programs.
On the other hand, some people deny that, stating that the intelligence…
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Was it illegal to discriminate on the basis of intelligence in the United States?
Paul Graham wrote the following in March 2005:
One advantage startups have over established companies is that there
are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, I
would be reluctant to start a startup with a woman who had…
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Do intelligent people tend to stay up later?
I heard that people with high IQs stay up late. I found this article which in turn refers to this study:
S. Kanazawa, K. Perina, Why night owls are more intelligent, Personality and Individual Differences 47 (2009) 685–690
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Does juggling increase gray matter/size of the occipito-temporal cortex?
I have been led to believe by expert testimonies that juggling may lead to an increase in brain depth and size.
At the moment I am not able to draw on much evidence.
If this is a myth, I would appreciate clarification, thank you.
Example claims:
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Was John von Neumann able to recall from memory every book he had ever read?
From Wikipedia's article on Eidetic memory's prevalence
According to Herman Goldstine, the mathematician John von Neumann was able to recall from memory every book he had ever read. [15]
Refering to Page 167 of Goldstine's The Computer from Pascal…
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Is there a negative correlation between intelligence and being religious?
A study The relation between intelligence and religiosity: a meta-analysis and some proposed explanations indicates that there is a relationship, with an abstract:
A meta-analysis of 63 studies showed a significant negative association between…
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Did Asian countries top an IQ survey of 50 countries?
This article in the China Daily makes the claim that several Asian countries topped a survey of intelligence:
Asians dominated the survey compiled by Austrian researchers who drew on a variety of sources to produce average IQs for the population of…
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Is the Wonderlic test cross validated by any other test or data?
In a quite famous lecture Jordan Peterson lists what IQ you need to work in certain professions, based on the Wonderlic test.
Are there other sources to these claims than Wonderlic that gives similar (or different) results? I googled but could only…
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Are humans getting dumber?
According to many posts on the internet, humans are getting dumber. For example:
People Getting Dumber? Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests
Our technology may be getting smarter, but a provocative new study…
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Evidence for and against (verbal-IQ-based) Smart Fraction Theory
Currently Smart Fraction Theory is subject of some discussion among the economists. The theory holds that the wealth of the country is heavily impacted by the fraction of the population that has IQ above certain threshold.
The following article adds…
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Does smoking tobacco increase work capacity?
A colleague stated that he heard of studies stating that nicotine is an upper and would increase work effort. A short Google search showed many sources showing many strongly positive effects of smoking, although not necessarily of nicotine.
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Is approximately 80% of a child's intelligence acquired from the mother?
Uberfacts, a Twitter account with 9.43M followers claims that 80% of a child's intelligence is acquired from the mother. How true is this?
Gizmodo doesn't do a very good job of debunking this:
FALSE. This fun fact is a favorite of those who think…
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Do people's IQs change?
In a 1968 study of the Pygmalion Effect:
Rosenthal and Jacobson gave an intelligence test to all of the students at an elementary school at the beginning of the school year. Then, they randomly selected 20 percent of the students - without any…
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Can CT scans performed on a child's head lower his or her intelligence?
The Daily Mail reports that X-rays and CT scans performed on a child's head could lower their IQ:
The study is the first to suggest that medical X-rays to the head could harm the development of the brain in later life.
It found that adults whose…
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