Word: iq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like using IQ as a measure of intelligence," he said. "It doesn't capture all the factors or all the dimensions of a school...
...child of two professors--her mother in computer science, her father in mathematics--Lan is modest, even self-deprecating, about her academic abilities. She insists that she "flunked" an IQ test she took as a child and claims that her elementary school teachers "would be surprised" to find out she was graduating from Harvard. To hear Lan tell her story, her life has merely been a series of interesting, and fortuitous, accidents...
...complex as they are treacherous. You have to learn how to solve problems fast, testing hypotheses and decoding puzzles. Patricia Greenfield, a psychology professor at UCLA, has studied the relationship between video games and intelligence and finds a positive correlation. Her research attributes an increase in worldwide "nonverbal IQ" (spatial skills, the use of icons for problem solving and the ability to understand things from multiple viewpoints) to the spread of video games...
...thrilled to hear my prejudice confirmed--until Greenfield noted that this rise in IQ comes at the expense of potentially more important social skills. Which is to say that kids typically don't interact that well when they spend hours sitting in front of the computer or console. "It's unfortunate that in our society we are more concerned with raising IQ than with people having a social intelligence and responsibility," she said...
Tall and sharp, with the features of a falcon, Zhu dominates meetings with his quick mind--his IQ "must be 200," Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers once said. Zhu has a Rolodex memory, endless energy and an overpowering impatience. He is not a man that one likes, but "a man that one respects," says Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Above all, Zhu is a man in a hurry, with a mission to make up for lost time, both for himself and for China...