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, Touché) by Balderdash on Thursday March 05 2015, @02:38PM
I had a dream about being a crippled black lesbian atheist.
I don't know how it is in real life, but in the dream world you get like $10,000.00 per month in EBT to spend on noodles and diet sodas.
It was pretty sweet except for the morbid obesity and constant influx of daytime television and talk shows.
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