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Meanwhile the highly educated folk in the City die off because all the shops are closed.
Originally posted by winofiend
Originally posted by alfa1
Two sample questions...
What is the next number in this sequence:
5, 5, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5, .....
Pain is to bread as rue is to ____
edit on 22-12-2012 by alfa1 because: (no reason given)
Smart people will look at that and shake their head and ponder the fate of the lower classes...
Slow people will look at that and shake their head and wonder.. they'll google it. They'll try fiddling with numbers, and grab a calculator. They'll throw the calculator at the wall and scream at google for being useless. And then they'll wait in sheer frustration and hit F5 constantly until alfa1 provides the answers.
.... waitsf5f5f5...
o.O
People who score high on intelligence tests are also good at keeping time, new Swedish research shows. The team that carried out the study also suspect that accuracy in timing is important to the brain processes responsible for problem solving and reasoning.
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“We know that accuracy at millisecond level in neuronal activity is critical to information processing and learning processes,” he says.
They also demonstrated a correlation between high intelligence, a good ability to keep time, and a high volume of white matter in the parts of the brain’s frontal lobes involved in problem solving, planning and managing time.
"All in all, this suggests that a factor of what we call intelligence has a biological basis in the number of nerve fibres in the prefrontal lobe and the stability of neuronal activity that this provides,” says Fredrik Ullén.
.....The researchers found that incentives noticeably boosted IQ scores, with the increase most pronounced for test-takers who had posted lower IQ scores when not given incentives.
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Problems surfacing in adolescence, such as becoming a smoker or getting pregnant, accounted for about half of the bad outcomes associated with low self-control in childhood. Kids who scored low on such measures — for instance, becoming easily frustrated, lacking persistence in reaching goals or performing tasks, or having difficulty waiting their turn in line — were roughly three times more likely to wind up as poor, addicted, single parents or to have multiple health problems as adults, compared with children who behaved more conscientiously as early as age 3.
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Rejection can dramatically reduce a person's IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their aggression, according to new research.
"It's been known for a long time that rejected kids tend to be more violent and aggressive," says Roy Baumeister of the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who led the work. "But we've found that randomly assigning students to rejection experiences can lower their IQ scores and make them aggressive."
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Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by IEtherianSoul9
LINK - IQ a Myth, Study Says
I think this has been known for a very long time.
I also think it is generally accepted that the very undefinable thing we call "intelligence" is so multifactorial (math, language, drawing, music, "common sense", 3d shapes, etc...) that it is silly to assign just one number to score it all.
Originally posted by Symbiot
The IQ test is actually supposed to determine a persons ability to obtain intellect rather than their current level of intellect, nonetheless it is useless.
You see the intelligence quotient determines nothing at all, a person is exactly as intelligent or capable of intelligence as they need to be. It seems to be common practice to assume that an accomplished scientist is worth more than the janitor that cleans his laboratory because it is assumed the scientist smarter and more valuable to society, but this is a false assumption. Could the scientist accomplish as much without those to clean his work space? If the scientist needs the janitor then the janitor is equally responsible for the accomplishments of the scientist for without him the scientist could not have accomplished.
You see the scientists workspace needs to be clean, at least in this example, and it takes time to clean it.
Originally posted by mbkennel
In real life, if they traded places, what fraction of scientists would be successful janitors? 35%? What fraction of janitors would be successful scientists? 0.01%?
Though after the collapse of the USSR, people said that your taxicab driver in Tel Aviv might be a string theorist.
Originally posted by Variable
IQ has never been a measure of success in life though. I recall seeing some studies and TV shows that showed people who had a gifted level IQ were no more likely to be "successful" than anyone else. People are very complicated.
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Originally posted by GoOfYFoOt
Originally posted by mbkennel
In real life, if they traded places, what fraction of scientists would be successful janitors? 35%? What fraction of janitors would be successful scientists? 0.01%?
Though after the collapse of the USSR, people said that your taxicab driver in Tel Aviv might be a string theorist.
Really? I believe that you are highly trivializing and stereotyping one's chosen or settled on, profession and attempting to equate it to one's intelligence. Probably a very poor analogy, in that respect.
How on earth, do you account for choice, then? A genius couldn't be caught dead, collecting trash???
Come on...
Originally posted by mbkennel
Firstly, janitors don't clean scientist's workspaces other than the general offices.
Both are necessary and there is demand for both kinds of employment. The reason why a scientist is paid more than a janitor is that a far smaller fraction of people can do the work of the scientist compared to a janitor. Good Will Hunting is a movie, remember. In real life, if they traded places, what fraction of scientists would be successful janitors? 35%? What fraction of janitors would be successful scientists? 0.01%?
Though after the collapse of the USSR, people said that your taxicab driver in Tel Aviv might be a string theorist.edit on 23-12-2012 by mbkennel because: (no reason given)edit on 23-12-2012 by mbkennel because: (no reason given)