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	I.Q. Rising?

Gul Agha

3-12-2009 9:57 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ef8fea15-5f85-47d8-a9be-af342b0dbaa4/F6B33EBD-644E-432A-86EB-4EE4083AFB05/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/guest-column-can-we-increase-our-intelligence/?emc=eta1" href="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/guest-column-can-we-increase-our-intelligence/?emc=eta1" style="font-size: 11px;">judson.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/guest-column-can-we-increase-our-intelligence/?emc=eta1">Flynn first noted that standardized intelligence quotient (I.Q.) scores were <A target="new" href="http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/101/2/171.pdf">rising by three points per decade</A> in many countries, and even faster in some countries like the Netherlands and Israel. For instance, in verbal and performance I.Q., an average Dutch 14-year-old in 1982 scored 20 points higher than the average person of the same age in his parents’ generation in 1952. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/guest-column-can-we-increase-our-intelligence/?emc=eta1">What might be changing? One strong candidate is <A target="new" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16325344">working memory</A>, defined as the ability to hold information in mind while manipulating it to achieve a cognitive goal. Examples include remembering a clause while figuring out how it relates the rest of a sentence, or keeping track of the solutions you’ve already tried while solving a puzzle. Flynn has pointed out that modern times have increasingly rewarded complex and abstract reasoning. Differences in working memory capacity account for 50 to 70 percent of individual differences in fluid intelligence (abstract reasoning ability)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/guest-column-can-we-increase-our-intelligence/?emc=eta1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/judson.blogs.nytimes.com/img/EC8D7556-3CBD-4358-9603-69446E5259A7" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F6B33EBD-644E-432A-86EB-4EE4083AFB05/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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