Word: iq
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...interesting demonstration of this theory was undertaken more than a decade ago by a team of psychologists at the University of Wisconsin. Struck by the fact that many of the mentally retarded children in a Milwaukee slum had retarded mothers, they took 40 infants whose mothers had IQs of less than 75 and put 20 of them in special day care centers. From the age of three months on, the children began getting lessons in language and arithmetic as well as various other kinds of stimulation. By the time they reached school age, their average IQ was more than...
...central problem in arriving at an answer is how to measure intelligence. Homo sapiens has a hard time devising IQ tests for its own species, much less trying to assess the brains of others. One trap: interpreting animal behavior in human terms. Notes Theodore Reed, former director of the National Zoo: "The public perception of animal intelligence abounds with anthropomorphic fantasies...
Some attribute the academic success of Asians to a genetic superiority. In his controversial study last year, British Psychologist Richard Lynn claimed that the Japanese score eleven points higher on the Wechsler IQ test than the American average. Their superior performance on tests of block designs, mazes and picture arrangement, however, may be related to the early study of the complex ideograms that compose their alphabet...
...abstract intelligence it could be that L.B.J., Nixon and Carter would rate highest among the modern Presidents. All suffered from a lack of judgment and proportion, which does not show up in IQ tests...
Cats is a musical that sweeps you off your feet but not into its arms. It is a triumph of motion over emotion, of EQ (energy quotient) over IQ. One could say at the end of the evening what someone says during the show: "We had the experience but missed the meaning." In Cats, the spectacle is the substance...