According to leading experts, it may be that the century-old habit of spanking children may do them more harm than good. It may, indeed, make them move more hastily, or even teach them not to do something (for a while, at least), but it could also lower their intelligence coefficient (IQ), scientists report. The rece... |
25 September 2009
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Experts from the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities and Morris campuses have proven in a recent study that people with a higher measure of cognitive abilities than the average are more likely to take better economic decisions, at least in some cases. The new research, which focused on about 1,000 trainee truc... |
28 April 2009
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Australian researchers from the University of Queensland have just recently released a new study, which seems to point out the fact that children whose fathers are older tend to score less in IQ tests than their peers, who were parented at an earlier age. The findings have been immediately contradicted by numerous p... |
12 March 2009
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A recent study indicates that musical training determines musicians to yield higher IQ scores than their non-musician counterparts. This is due to the fact that they tend to use both of their brain sides more frequently than regular people.Crystal Gibson, Bradley Folley and Sohee Park, psychologists from the Vanderbi... |
3 October 2008
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The higher your IQ coefficient is, the more drinks you take daily. These are the results of a research made by the Medical Research Council and published in the "American Journal of Public Health," which points that women are particularly prone to drink heavily in their thirties, if they have an over-the-average int... |
13 February 2008
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Leeloo, the Fifth Element, could learn by heart books in a matter of seconds, but you should calm down, as real people cannot remember a thousand different things at once. This is just impossible, as a new research shows that the average person's short-term memory can only stick four items at a time.The team of ... |
13 July 2007
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Do they call you dumb, a**hole, sucker, idiot and so on?It does not matter, one day you could be (might become) a genius. A roundup of IQ studies from Cambridge University Press, shows that being a genius means 99 % hard work. "There are international chess masters that have below-average IQs," said author Dr. K. And... |
17 April 2007
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