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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: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @04:44AM
Of course it is a good indicator! The entirety of what it means to be human summed into a single number? It doesn't get better than that!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SlimmPickens on Thursday March 05 2015, @06:17AM
Nothing more to being human than being smart?
(Score: 1) by soylentsandor on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:05AM
Or being dumb, duh.
Hey if AC says it, it must be true. It can't possibly have been sarcasm.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:57AM
> Nothing more to being human than being smart?
Your poor word choice aside, yes.
There is nothing unique about the human experience that does not derive from the intelligence of the species.
Otherwise we'd just be goldfish.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @06:57AM
IMO its a little better than the number between 1 and 10 used by men to define women.