Questions tagged [intelligence]
Intelligence has been defined in many different ways such as in terms of one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving.
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Does the US Armed Forces refuse to recruit anyone with an IQ less than 83?
In this video, Jordan Peterson claims the following.
You can't induct someone into the Armed Forces in the US if they have an IQ of less than 83.
He claims that the armed forces needs an accurate ...
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Is low emotional intelligence associated with right-wing and prejudiced attitudes?
Accordiing to Diply,
Researchers in Belgium have linked a lack of emotional intelligence with right-wing political views, reports PsyPost. The study, published in Emotion, found that those who ...
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Did the CIA blow up the Nordstream 1 pipeline, using BALTOPS 22 as cover?
In September 2022, the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines off the coast of Denmark were sabotaged
Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist, recently published a blog post, How ...
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Are IQ tests reliable?
Some of the more common types of IQ tests are:
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Fifth Edition (SBIS-V) (Ages 2–90+)An update of the SB-IV. In addition to providing a Full Scale score, it ...
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Are men smarter than women?
I recently stumbled across the following article:
Sorry, men ARE more brainy than women (and more stupid too!) It's a simple scientific fact, says one of Britain's top dons, in which the author claims:...
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Does IQ testing show that blacks on average score worse than whites?
James Watson Nobel Prize winner for his discovery of the structure of DNA made the following claim in a 2007 Sunday Times interview:
"[I am] inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” ...
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Is IQ hereditary? If so, to what degree?
The movie Idiocracy suggests that intelligence is hereditary; this idea has also been perpetrated by German author Thilo Sarrazin, who claims that due to the higher fertility of Islamic immigrants and ...
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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 verbal ...
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Does extremely high intelligence correlate with poorer social skills?
The Psychology.Wikia page Correlation between intelligence and social deficiency states:
Abnormally high intelligence, 3 or more standard deviations above the mean, tends to correlate strongly with ...
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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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Are there more people with genius IQs living in China than there are people total in the U.S.?
This claim was made popular by being said in the movie The Social Network. It exactly says:
Did you know there are more people with genius IQs living in China
than there are people of any kind ...
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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/
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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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Drop in IQ due to immigration?
An alt-right web site, "Red Ice" (apparently belonging to Henrik Palmgren), proposes that there's a nearly worldwide decrease in IQ due to immigration. The Red Ice piece apparently originated from unz....
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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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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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Is reaction time correlated with intelligence?
The article People Getting Dumber? Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests says,
As for Dr. te Nijenhuis and colleagues, they analyzed the results of 14 intelligence ...
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Does Lumosity increase your intelligence?
Lumosity is a popular website that claims to help you become a more intellectually capable individual.
Harness your brain's neuroplasticity and train your way to a brighter life"
Is it truly ...
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Do the mother's genes almost exclusively determine the sons' intelligence?
According to this paper: Intelligence and the X chromosome by Gillian Turner, published by The Lancet (a highly regarded medical journal) in 1996, the X chromosome is dominantly responsible for coding ...
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Do any brain training games make you smarter?
What are the benefits over just playing a normal game? Sites such as Lumosity claim they are training your brain and making you smarter using "what seems like games".
Is there any scientific evidence ...
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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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Does solving Sudoku puzzles improve your mental abilities?
A lot of people I know see solving Sudoku puzzles as a way to train their minds.
howtoincreasememorypower.com recommends doing a Sudoku puzzle a day to increase brain power.
Researchers rank ...
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Do less-intelligent people vote right-wing because they feel safe?
The always fascinating Daily Mail came out with a rather surprising article where it claims a Canadian experiment, or review, concluded that people with less-than-average childhood intelligence tend ...
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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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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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Is global IQ dropping over time?
Global 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 generally populated by less ...
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Has the U.S. Army been conducting IQ tests on their recruits, unintentionally discovering a racial hierarchy of intelligence?
Dave Rubin's interview with Stefan Molyneux on race and IQ in this video talks about how the U.S. Army have been giving IQ tests for about 100 years to measure the intelligence of recruits and find ...
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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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Is self-discipline more important than IQ in predicting academic performance?
There is one highly cited (>1K citations in Google Scholar) study titled "Self-discipline outdoes IQ in predicting academic performance of adolescents", and quoting from its abstract:
Self-...
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Does long-term marijuana use lead to a significant drop in IQ?
This article claims that marijuana (cannabis) is linked to a drop in IQ. Specifically:
Participants who used cannabis heavily in their teens and continued through adulthood showed a significant ...
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Does Chess ELO correlate with IQ?
Does the chess ELO rating of players (who have trained/played approximately the same amount of time) correlate positively with IQ?
A usual claim is 'IQ and chess ELO ratings don't correlate', a view ...
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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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Does Modafinil make you smarter?
Modafinil (Wikipedia 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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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
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Did the average IQ score in France decline in recent decades?
We all know about the Flynn effect, that states that it has been the case that in the recent past the IQ scores in developed countries have been steadily increasing. The reasons seem to be related ...
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Are people who love inspirational quotes less intelligent?
An article in the Daily Beast claims the following:
A new study finds that people who love bullshit inspirational quotes have lower intelligence and more "conspiratorial ideations".
Life ...
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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 6....
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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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Is intelligence declining due to the lack of selection pressure?
I have read lately that human intelligence has already peaked and that it will slowly decline over time because humans are no longer naturally selected for intelligence (Darwin award winners aside). ...
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Are people with a high IQ not allowed to become police officers in New London?
This 2000 ABC News report says:
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
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Does consuming fluoridated water reduce IQ?
Related:
Is fluoride in water an industry waste product?
Is water fluoridation harmful?
Dr. Mercola is at it again with a new article: 25 Studies Prove This Reduces Your IQ.
The Fluoride Action ...
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Does LSD provide a creativity boost?
The claim is of course widely known: LSD "broadens your thinking" and makes you "more creative".
The last incarnation was Steve Jobs' biography taking a swipe at Bill Gates:
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Are vegetarians more intelligent?
In a post titled Why Vegetarians Are More Intelligent than Meat Eaters, evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa claims:
Among the British respondents in the National Child Development Study, ...
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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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Do Japanese crows use traffic to crack nutshells?
In a BBC article, its contended that:
In a Japanese city, carrion crows have discovered how to eat nuts that
they usually find too hard to tackle. One method is to drop the nuts
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Does having more women in a group increase its collective intelligence?
Various reputable media outlets have written articles down through the years to the effect that the higher the ratio of women in a group, the higher its collective intelligence.
Examples online:
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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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Do firstborns have a higher IQ?
I've seen number of articles telling about the fact that firstborns are more likely to have higher IQ than their sibilings.
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Research Finds Firstborns Gain the Higher I.Q.,
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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 ...
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Does the probability of entering and remaining in an intellectually elite profession peak at an IQ of 133 and falls with rising IQ?
Michael W. Ferguson writes in The Inappropriately Excluded:
The probability of entering and remaining in an intellectually elite profession such as Physician, Judge, Professor, Scientist, Corporate ...
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