Word: iq
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...would mean than with what he would or could accomplish as President. Rather than finding this inspiring, I feel it smacks of American narcissism and naiveté. For the country's sake, I hope people - and the press - will evaluate the candidates on their qualifications, not their pop-culture IQ. Carrie Wolfe, STERLING...
...surrender. Tell your friends: the grumpy old man finally gets it. After years of arguing and analyzing, I now officially concede that movie comedy is meant to be always and only about men behaving at an IQ and/or age level far below expectations; that movie courtship is a process of stumbling into sex, not the suave negotiation of seduction; and that, after decades when Hollywood offered the likes of Clark Gable, Cary Grant and Steve McQueen were the emblems of masculinity, it now proposes the mentally and emotionally challenged oaf as dreamboat. What woman could look at Ferrell in this...
...would mean than with what he would or could accomplish as President. Rather than finding this inspiring, I feel it smacks of American narcissism and naiveté. For the country's sake, I hope people - and the press - will evaluate the candidates on their qualifications, not their pop-culture IQ. Carrie Wolfe, Sterling...
...minutes. So argues a team of psychologists from the University of California at Irvine that published its preliminary findings in the British scientific journal Nature. Listening to relaxation tapes or sitting in silence had no effect, but the college students scored between eight and nine points higher on an IQ test after hearing a Mozart sonata. In the future the team plans, a bit tendentiously, to study whether repetitive music lacking in complexity (translation: rock) lowers test scores...
...Nascent research suggests the dominatrix may be on to something. David Mirich, a psychologist in Colorado, measured the intelligence of 220 BDSMers and found that they posted above-average IQ scores, "which is very unlike the criminal population of sex offenders and criminals," he says. Furthermore, their behavior doesn't appear to be a response to an unhealthy upbringing, nor correlate to psychopathology. Researchers have a long way to go to understand the phenomenon, but it seems clear that the desire manifests early in life. "When they were playing cowboys and Indians as children," Mirich says of the BDSMers...