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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:28AM
I am like this, high power with low storage. There is an advantage to be leveraged in novel thinking as that is what we end up doing most of the time to make up for low recall ability. It isn't as efficient at tasks that repeat or are similar, so I find that my abilities are appreciated more when the problems are so broad or unexplored in nature that memory isn't viable. Dive in the deep end, go off the map and fight the cognitive dragons, that is what we are good for.