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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, @09:30PM
People are not "intelligent" in general, they're intelligent about some subject.
I knew right there, thanks to my amazing pattern recognition ability, that this (or some for of why you suck at IQ tests) was about to be next:
I've never, for example, been able to look at a list of numbers, discover the formula that generates them, and predict the next number - and that's big on IQ tests