“… Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and [...]
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All over the world governments are striving to raise the education level of their population. But almost all efforts seems to go towards theoretical and scientific education.
There is a tendency to look down on manual work which is highly needed in all societies to build new houses, roads and bridges, to keep existing houses in [...]
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According to a study from King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA the effect on IQ scores of breasfeeding depended whether the infant had a certain gene or not.
For the 10% of children missing the gene there was no difference between the breast-fed kids and others. [...]
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Is it possible to improve your IQ test score by practice?
Are the IQ scores really saying anything meaningful about the intelligence of a person?
Is it meaningful to judge a persons IQ from a single test?
How much are test results influenced by cultural factorfs?
This blog will discuss different questions around IQ test taking.
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