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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @05:22PM
Intelligence is defined by the ability to solve general problems.
There is no concrete, objective definition of intelligence.
then you are smarter because you can solve arbitrary problems better than me.
Define "arbitrary problems." How exactly does solving arbitrary problems mean you're smarter? Are you using the Pythagorean theorem to solve the same types of problems again and again? That's just tedious nonsense, and I would say it isn't a measure of intelligence (which itself doesn't have an objective definition). So it all depends on what you mean by "arbitrary problems."