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Most people try to be nice about not embarrassing us with questions about our SAT scores, our IQ scores, our future plans or our study habits...
...Perry Project offered a solid yes in reply. Its preschool group enjoyed a 15 point rise in IQ rating per student after one year. Only 15% of the preschoolers required special education in later years; 35% of the control group needed aid. Of the preschoolers, 67% graduated from high school, vs. 50% of the control group. By age 19, only 31% of the preschoolers had been arrested for some crime, vs. 51% of the others...
Only children score better on IQ tests, reach higher levels of education and get more prestigious jobs than people with siblings. Look at Leonardo da Vinci, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin. But there is a price for fame and glory. "Onlies" are associated with a host of irksome psychological traits -- among them impaired social skills and a nagging need for attention. Now it seems they may also suffer from a distinct physical handicap: higher blood pressure...
...convinced that they don't need violence to get people to confess," says Yale Kamisar, a criminal-law expert at the University of Michigan. But the head-banging style of police interrogation has not disappeared. A dramatic example: the case of Barry Lee Fairchild, a black man with an IQ of 62 sentenced to death for the 1983 murder of a white Air Force nurse in Little Rock. Lawyers for Fairchild, who are pursuing an appeal, say he confessed only after Pulaski County sheriff's deputies put telephone books on top of his head and slammed downward repeatedly with blackjacks...
...world of TV sitcoms could Urkel become a sensation. Make that only in the world of Tom Miller and Bob Boyett. As executive producers of Family Matters, the ABC series Urkel calls home, and a string of other sitcom hits, they have mastered the art of low-IQ, high-Nielsen TV comedy. At ABC, they are the kings of Friday night: for much of the season, they have monopolized the evening with four shows running back to back...