Iq

Being Smarter About IQ

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Memory, Concentration, Iq, Psychology, Brain, Learning, Frontal Lobes, Problem Solving, Fluid Intelligence, Executive Functions, College News
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Are we still debating whether IQ is fixed or whether it is malleable and can be pushed around? Are we still fighting the nature versus nurture battle? We thought this had been resolved ages ago. In fact, 30 years ago.

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JOIN THE DEBATE: Are Geniuses Born, Or Made?

Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Scott Barry Kaufman, Zack Hambrick, Nature vs Nurture, 10000 Hours, Lady GaGa, Psychology, Born This Way, Genius, Genius Born or Made, Change My Mind, Intelligence, Video, Child Prodigy, Child Psychology, Iq, Science News

Do genes make the genius? Or is it really true that practice is what puts people in Carnegie Hall? Some argue that the the seeds of genius are plan...

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What Happens When the IQ Test Taker Becomes the IQ Test Constructor?

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Creativity, Iq, Geneplore Model, Convergent Thinking, Diveregent Thinking, IQ Testing, Education News
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

If we want to assess a person's potential for creativity, innovation and imagination, we have to do better than give them an IQ test. We can't just ask them to figure out the one correct answer. We have to give them the opportunity to tell us what the problem is in the first place.

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The Truth About Fish Oil Pills During Pregnancy

Jena Pincott | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Iq, Science, Pregnancy, Cognitive Development, Omega-3-Fatty-Acids, Iq Tests, Fish-Oil-Pills, Parents-Pregnancy, Fish Oil During Pregnancy, Pregnancy Diet, Parents News
Jena Pincott

Kids whose moms ate fish more than twice weekly during pregnancy were significantly less likely to have low scores on cognitive tests.

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Is He Just Too Old for This?

Melanie Notkin | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Male-Infertility, Male Infertility, Women, Judgment Day, Infertility, Judgment, Yom Kippur, Reproductive Health, Iq, Motherhood, Intellectual Disability, Fatherhood, Womne News, Fertility, Special Needs Children, Women News
Melanie Notkin

Men are responsible for 40 percent of all fertility problems among American couples, so why is all the pressure (read: judgment) on women for reproductive health and timeliness?

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Increasing Your Courage

Blythe McGarvie | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Global Business Leadership, Blythe McGarvie, Shaking the Globe, Iq, Intelligence Quotient, Business News
Blythe McGarvie

Some people are quite smart, emotionally savvy, but refuse to take an educated risk to make a difference and turn their success into significance. We say they have a low Courage Quotient.

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Parenting: What Praise Helps and What Praise Harms?

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Mindset, Margaret Paul, Education, Praise, Children, Iq, Inner Bonding, Carol Dweck, Teachers, Parenting, Parenting Advice, Parents News
Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

Astounding research shows that praising children for their abilities actually lowers their level of achievement, while praising them for their effort ...

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The IQ of America's Entrepreneurs

Alexia Parks | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Techstars, Areday, Backpacker, Green, Twitter, Iq, Innovation, Biotech, Facebook, Kickstarter., Aspen, Chemical, Youtube, Sustainability, Iphone, Boulder, Entrepreneurship, 3-D, Entrepreneur, Digitalglobe, Wingstand, Opx, Gnip, Backjoy, Denver News
Alexia Parks

In the world of today's entrepreneurs, the term IQ doesn't refer to how intelligent one is. Instead, it refers to the Innovation Quotient of companies...

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Why Atheists Have Higher IQs

Nigel Barber | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Intelligence, Education, Uncertainty, Poverty, Atheists, U.S., Race, Europe, Iq, World News
Nigel Barber

Atheists score higher on IQ tests than religious people according to some research. Does this mean that people accept religious beliefs because they a...

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Intelligent Testing

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

I still have a healthy dose of skepticism for the tests. But I'd like to see creativity better measured and appreciated.

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Would Charles Darwin Get a Gun?

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second Amendment, Assault Weapons, Survival of the Fittest, Brady Law, Iq, Gun Control, Gunlaws, Intelligence Tests, Guns, Wechsler Intelligence Tests, Gun Violence, Intelligence, Right to Bear Arms, Charles Darwin, Gabrielle Giffords, Evolution, Genetics, Adaptation, Politics News
Bernard Starr

Another devastating chapter in our long history of massacres with guns unfolded in Tucson Arizona on January 8th with the ambush of Congresswoman Gabr...

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Education Reform -- Crashing on the Bell Curve

Steve Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iq, Bell Curve, Poverty, Education Reform, Race, Nclb, Race to the Top, Education News
Steve Nelson

All the hot rhetoric over educational achievement is nonsense. The problem in America is a dangerous class divide, not a crisis in teaching and learning.

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Educating for Democracy: What's Your IQ (Ignorance Quotient) America?

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joel Shatzky

I believe that we as a nation must seriously examine what is causing this "IQ Ignorance Quotient" which makes us the laughing stock of many other countries and will eventually lead to our decline as a significant nation.

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Brains, Emotions and Attitudes: What A Few Telling Qs Reveal About You

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

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Inder Sidhu

On TV, he's Dwight Schrute, the over-achieving, over-bearing salesman from NBC's Thursday-night hit, The Office. In real life, there's someone just l...

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Slow, Free Range, Idle Parents Can Increase IQ and Happiness

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Iq, Free Range Parents, Slow Parenting, Parenting Advice, Slow Movement, Happiness, Downshifting, Healthy Living News
Kirsten Dirksen

In the past century, all aspects of our life -- work, food, sex, sports, relationships -- have sped up and parenting is no exception.

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Gandhi's Diet, Marie Antoinette's Cake Shop: Top 7 'Historical Tweets' Of Dreams That Went Awry (PHOTOS, POLL)

Alec McNayr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alec McNayr

These historical figures followed their dreams and stuck out their chins, only to catch fate's backhand. The stinging pain led to wisdom we now revere.

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Why Isn't Academia Preparing Our Children for Business And Life? Ringing (Out) the IQ Bell

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brian Ross

Why can't Academia, from Kindergarten to doctoral programs, retool in the 21st century to educate all of us for who we really are, and not mold our children into products of a diploma mill?

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For Whom the Bell Curves: Harvard Law Student Stephanie Grace Says Blacks Are Dumber Than Whites; Black Harvard Professor Roland Fryer Agrees

Dr. Jonathan David Farley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Jonathan David Farley

A recent email by Harvard law student Stephanie Grace allegedly asserts, "I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on ...

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A Little Matter of Science, Superiority, and Racism: New Atheism's Dangerous Waters

Josh Schrei | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hinduism, Religion News, Religion, Intelligence, Evolutionary Psychology, Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Science, Iq, Academia, Buddhism, Richard Dawkins, Satoshi Kanazawa, Religion News
Josh Schrei

Bluntly, the culture from which modern atheism has sprung -- science and academia -- has a long history of distorted claims of superiority that well-meaning atheists would do best to avoid.

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Rodney James Alcala On 'Dating Game' (VIDEO): Murder Suspect Uses Extraordinary Defense

AP | By GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 05.25.2011

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SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A California man acting as his own lawyer in a case charging him with five murders played a video clip in court Tuesday showing h...

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Are Our Minds Going The Way Of Our Waists?

David Rock | Posted 11.17.2011

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David Rock

Put together cheap resources everywhere and poor self-control, and you get a weight problem literally of epidemic proportions. The trouble is, this same phenomenon may be happening with our minds.

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Lower Intelligence of Men Born Year After 1969 Flu Pandemic

Dan Agin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Environment, Iq, Fetal Brain Development, Flu Epidemic, Healthy Living News
Dan Agin

Early prenatal exposure to the Hong Kong flu may have interfered with fetal cerebral development and caused reduced intelligence in adulthood.

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Spanking Kids: IQ Lower For Children Who Were Spanked: Study (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011

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A new study suggests that spanking children can significantly lower their IQs. The study, involving hundreds of U.S. children, showed the more a c...

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Glenn Beck Proposes Cap on Nation's IQ

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borowitz Report, Iq, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Andy Borowitz, 9/12, Barack Obama, Glenn Beck Iq, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

Speaking at a massive rally of his so-called 9/12 Project in Washington, D.C., Fox News host Glenn Beck called today for stricter limits on the nation's IQ.

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Summer Reading, Literary IQ and a Pop Quiz

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Nicholas Kristof, Education, Teachers, Summer Reading, Summer, Iq, Books, Video, Healthy Living News
Kenneth C. Davis

Summer also means the often dread Summer Reading List. Many parents spend the summer in an endless harangue, telling their kids to read. But there is actually a good reason for that nag.

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