Word: iq
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...been anesthetized. She spoke of her excruciating pain and fear to the two doctors the day following surgery. When we decided to file suit to protect other patients, there were attempts to make her seem incompetent and thus invalidate her claims. No matter. Her attorney had her IQ tested to prove competency (145 IQ at age 78). I certainly knew that she wasn't nuts and that she would not accuse someone without reason. Your report on "awareness" survivors has put everything into place. What a benign term for such a traumatic experience! KATHIE MARSHALL Encino, Calif...
...very important that children learn good manners at an early age [EDUCATION, Sept. 29]. Some people think it is a waste of schooltime to teach children to be polite, but politeness is more important than your IQ. It is better to be a B-average student with great manners than an A+ student who is a big wise guy. If all second-graders learned politeness and kindness just as they learn math and science, America would be a much more civilized society in 25 years. CHRISTINE DEVLIN, age 11 Brookline, Mass...
...nourish students' souls as well as their minds. And while the best teachers have long taught kids to behave and play fair, they now have science on their side. In 1995 psychologist and New York Times science writer Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, which contends that children's ability to recognize their own emotions, empathize with peers and deal with crises--their "emotional quotient," or EQ--influences their life chances as much as native intelligence. The book, now a paperback best seller, has had a catalytic effect. Rutgers psychologist Maurice Elias, a pioneer...
...Leder's bustling direction and to Clooney, who has a gift for eroticizing impatience. ("Women!" his stare says. "Can't live with 'em; they can't live without me.") Then the film finds sympathy for its villain and goes softly nuts with him. In the final chase everyone's IQ drops about 20 points...
...study, released this week by Fordham's School of Social Service, focused on 715 children who were given standard IQ tests at one and three years of age. According to the researchers, the IQ scores of girls who received "high levels of harsh discipline" at 12 and 36 months were about eight points lower than girls of the same age who were spared the rod. Boys in the same age group showed similar IQ reductions after being spanked or scolded, but not to the same extent as girls, the study found. An even worse effect was found from a lack...