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IQ is rising in many parts of the world. What's behind the change and does it really mean people are cleverer than their grandparents?
It is not unusual for parents to comment that their children are brainier than they are. In doing so, they hide a boastful remark about their offspring behind a self-deprecating one about themselves. But a new study, published in the journal Intelligence, provides fresh evidence that in many cases this may actually be true.
The researchers - Peera Wongupparaj, Veena Kumari and Robin Morris at Kings College London - did not themselves ask anyone to sit an IQ test, but they analysed data from 405 previous studies. Altogether, they harvested IQ test data from more than 200,000 participants, captured over 64 years and from 48 countries.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by SlimmPickens on Thursday March 05 2015, @03:32AM
I think the main thing is that at memory is a hierarchical-temporal phenomenon. Something may well be in another persons brain but we may not have said it in a way that sets off their memory. Not everyone is blessed with a high degree of transference, and even those that are may still need some time to sift through everything.
That and human nature, anytime someone doesn't understand us we assume the person is stupid.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Balderdash on Thursday March 05 2015, @02:32PM
That is the reason that so many training courses, covering similar topics but from different speakers, have a fair amount of overlap.
Each person learns differently, and the delivery method of one trainer may appeal to one person, and a totally different spin on the same topic will resonate with another person.
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