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Can the president of the USA be refused access to classified information? [closed]
Former US President Bill Clinton was quoted as saying in a speech, talking about the alleged extra-terrestrial landings in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947:
"Well I don't know if you all heard this, ...
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Does North Korea have the third highest IQ?
In the book IQ and the wealth of nations, the authors Lynn & Vanhanen published a list of measured average IQs for 81 countries (Table 6.1, base-lined on the UK), and another longer list (Table ...
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Can CT scans performed on a child's head lower his or her intelligence?
The Daily Mail reports that X-rays and CT scans performed on a child's head could lower their IQ:
The study is the first to suggest that medical X-rays to the head could harm the development of ...
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Does juggling increase gray matter/size of the occipito-temporal cortex?
I have been led to believe by expert testimonies that juggling may lead to an increase in brain depth and size.
At the moment I am not able to draw on much evidence.
If this is a myth, I would ...
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Are mixed-blood children smarter than their non mixed-blood parents?
I have heard and read on the Internet the disputed claim that mixed blood* children are smarter than their (non-mixed blood) parents.
The general idea of "hybrid vigour" is known as heterosis and ...
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Are intelligent people more nocturnal than people not considered intelligent?
Some sites claim that people with higher intelligence tend to go to bed later.
For example:
People with higher IQs are more apt to be nocturnal night-owls. Those with lower IQs tend to restrict ...
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Do non-educated people tend more to the right/conservative political wing?
This is a common prejudice in my social environment, but is it true?
Are educated people more likely to vote for a social/left wing party?
Examples: [1]; [2].
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Are women weak in religion and reasoning as compared to men? [duplicate]
When Prophet Muhammad compared men and women as follows in one of the hadith, which says women are weaker in reason and religious. While it is difficult to understand deficiency in religion I would ...
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Does Chess ELO correlate with IQ
Does chess ELO rating of players (who have trained/played approximately the same amount of time) correlate with IQ?
The claim is 'IQ and chess ELO ratings don't correlate', a view widespread in ...
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Intelligence of different races [closed]
It is generally accepted (in larges parts of the US - I'm not sure about other places, but there are probably many others) that people of different races (where race here means skin color, as ...
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Is sense of humor somehow related to intelligence?
I've seen a couple of documentaries where they insinuate that sense of humor and intelligence could be related. I couldn't find the documentaries on the web, but the following are some studies ...
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Does Modafinil make you smarter?
Modafinil (wiki link) is a drug approved in many countries for specific medical conditions such as narcolepsy. We don't, however, have a good idea how it works.
But is is one of several drugs ...
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Are Ashkenazi Jews smarter?
I just received an email entitled "Why are Jews So Smart". You can read an article here.
I also found a similar article in New York Magazine.
Did Jewish intelligence evolve in tandem with Jewish ...
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Is there a correlation between intelligence and wearing spectacles?
Many people I know consider bespectacled individuals to be smarter than the average normal sighted person.
Is there any scientific basis to this belief?
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Are STEM (science tech engineering math) suffering a shortage of people in the US?
I have been always hearing of not enough people in the science and technology field in the US. The government is always coming up with initiatives to increase the number of people. From my experience ...
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Is hair colour correlated with intelligence?
..for some commonly agreed-upon, objective, quantitative, non-discriminatory intelligence criterion.
Before you rush to close this as a duplicate, yes, I am aware of this other question that treats ...
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Is global IQ dropping over time?
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
Essentially the idea is that while smart people are getting wealthier, their birth-rate tends to drop. On the other hand poor countries, which are ...
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Does playing popular video games improve a child's IQ?
This article claims a study shows that the cognitive abilities of 60-77 year olds can be helped by playing two weeks of World of Warcraft.
This article quotes a navy researcher as saying adults ...
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Was Einstein's brain physiologically different?
Einstein's brain has been the subject of much debate and speculation, because of his notable and exceptional contributions to our understanding of the universe.
The claim exists that his brain may ...
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Do men show greater variance in the distribution of their IQ than women?
It is frequently claimed that men show greater variance in the distribution of their general intelligence factor (g) ("IQ") than women.
Is that claim accepted by the scientific community?
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Did Asian countries top an IQ survey of 50 countries?
This article in the China Daily makes the claim that several Asian countries topped a survey of intelligence:
Asians dominated the survey compiled by Austrian researchers who drew on a variety of ...
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If children use calculators in primary school, is their learning impacted?
Others are against using calculator in lower level math teaching, saying that it makes children not to learn their basic facts, prevents students from discovering and understanding underlying ...
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Does watching TV make you stupid?
I haven't watched TV since 1969. I worked in it for decades, and knew enough not to watch it. It makes you stupid, and my colleagues in the networks agree! Some of them would point out what a ...
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Are non-religious people smarter than religious people?
There are quite a few studies that confirm this, the most recent one:
http://onefuriousllama.com/2011/09/11/another-study-links-intelligence-to-lack-of-religiosity/
Are non-religious people smarter ...
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Were our recent ancestors as intelligent as we are?
A good friend of mine made the following claim:
If we would have a time machine and use it to gather newborns from different eras of human history and would put them in normal and nurturing ...
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Intelligence and number of children?
This wikipedia article on fertility and intelligence (citation missing from wiki article needed for proving this claim) indicates that intelligent people are less fertile. Is this correlated to the ...
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Does your choice of browser relate to your IQ
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PC World reports that a "psychometric consulting" firm called
AptiQuant gave free online IQ tests to 100,000 people, and then
plotted the scores against the browser on which the tests ...
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Are big ears a sign of intelligence?
Some people claim that ear size and shape is related to intelligence. For example, this writer.
Has any real research been done on this?
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Are blondes dumb or is it just a sarcastic saying?
Many a times in hollywood, blondes are projected as unitellegent, stupid and dull-witted. In fact a perception around the world can be realized about the same. In friends circle, TV shows and social ...
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Can one be naturally better at computers than English or Maths?
I think everybody heard this claim, and its opposite, a million times. Students or teachers commonly speak about having talents for a particular subject or another.
The subject is debated, for ...
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Are exams getting easier, or are students getting smarter?
There is an interesting trend in test scores in exams (GCSE and A-level) in the UK: they are increasing, or so the trend in the grades would tend to show. This is known as grade inflation and affects ...
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Does brain mass have any correlation to intelligence?
According to many (I cannot find a source at the moment), Albert Einstein's brain weighed less than average.
It is a common belief that there is no correlation between brain mass and intelligence. Is ...
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Are IQ tests reliable?
Some of the more common types of IQ tests are:
source
There have been many IQ tests used over the years, and many different proposed scales to evaluate the results. Many tests have been revised ...
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Are people getting smarter or stupider in North America?
I've heard that people are complaining everyone are getting dumber because of popular culture and the Internet. I read an article in cracked that said people are actually getting smarter because of ...
