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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: 5, Funny) by frojack on Thursday March 05 2015, @04:02AM
I think it has to do with your age, and your understanding of IQ.
When you are young, you tend to think everybody else is dumber than you. You may occasionally find yourself in error, but never in doubt. You are quicker to pick up on new and tech, but have no idea what to do with a maul and a wedge.
When you are old, (geezerhood) you've seen everything, at least twice, seen three or four generations of technology come and go. You delight in letting the wippersnappers hang themselves with their own rope, and would rather keep your mouth shut and let people think you're ignorant, than start running your mouth and prove them correct. You don't have all the facts on the tip of your tongue, (because the mind is the Second thing to go), but you know where to find where to look it up. You need a password vault to remember all your passwords, and you have that password tattooed on your left foot. You have the words "other foot" tattooed on your right foot.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Thursday March 05 2015, @04:11AM
So memory is a pedantry-temporal-heirarchy?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @04:31AM
You need a password vault to remember all your passwords
If I didnt have 200 different passwords I wouldnt bother... If jackasses wouldnt let my password leak I could reuse the samish password everywhere. But nooooooo.....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:15AM
Lamentation of reality is okay. There are bad actors in the world. If there were no thieves or overly curious then there would be little need for locks. However to point the blame for that reality at the only people that are actively trying to protect you is Greek tragedy levels of unfair.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:49AM
Bro! This is our frojack. There are many like him, but this one is ours. At least I think I remember he is.