http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iq/ en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:41:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414458/posts Guy goes into a bar, there's a robot bartender. The robot says, "What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini." The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man, "What's your IQ?" The guy says, "168". The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical technology. The guy leaves, but he is curious, so he goes back into the bar. The robot bartender says," What will you have?" The guy says, "Martini". Again, the robot makes a great martini, gives it to the man and says, "What's your IQ?" The guy says, "100."... Unknown http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414458/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:41:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393267/posts It was with great interest that I read Christopher Donovan’s TOO article on politically incorrect comments at a blog for the lawyerly elite. The field of law prides itself on being a meritocracy. Being made up of educated Westerners, it is also very liberal on racial issues. It’s hard to be both. The two main academic factors considered in law school admissions are GPA and more importantly, the prospect’s score on the LSAT. Grades aren’t a very good indicator of skill since students choose their own majors, which of course vary in difficulty. That leaves the LSAT as the main... The Occidental Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393267/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:45:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392120/posts The Washington Post yesterday afternoon reported "President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of tribal leaders conference." The transcript begins: SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference. I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see... Michael Bates http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392120/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:24:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2391161/posts Curvy Women May Be A Clever Bet. Nigella Lawson: Curvy figure and an Oxford degree [Pic in URL]. Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests. Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests - as did their children. The bigger the difference between a woman's waist and hips the better. Researchers writing in Evolution and Human Behaviour speculated this was to do with fatty acids found on the hips. In this area, the fat is likely... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2391161/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:34:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379876/posts WEST PALM BEACH — Incited by poor graduation rates in Palm Beach County, a national civil rights group sued the state Thursday, alleging it failed to ensure that all students receive the high-quality education guaranteed under the Florida Constitution. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the school district directly last year, but the case was dismissed on the grounds that the district was not the right party to sue. Now the national and state arms of the ACLU are bringing a class-action suit against the state on behalf of Palm Beach County students and parents. The lawsuit, filed in Palm... Palm Beach Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379876/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:35:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376177/posts What if we could know, scientifically, that one side has the edge in brainpower? Should that change how we think about political issues? Who are smarter, liberals or conservatives? This is the kind of question that could spark fierce and endless debates between political opponents, but what if we could know, scientifically, that one side has the edge in brainpower? Should that change how we think about political issues? Though few partisans on either side are likely to admit it, most people at one time or another have suspected that their political opponents are dim bulbs. Sometimes these sentiments get... The American:The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376177/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 01:12:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373707/posts A forthcoming study on Hispanic children’s cognitive skills underlines the challenges the country faces in aspiring to close the achievement gap between these children and their white and Asian counterparts. Hispanic “children fall behind their peers in mental development by the time they reach grade school, and the gap tends to widen as they get older,” reports the New York Times. “The drop-off in the cognitive scores of Hispanic toddlers, especially those from Mexican backgrounds, was steeper than for other [low-income] groups and could not be explained by economic status alone. . . . From 24 to 36 months, the... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373707/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:51:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372419/posts The children of Hispanic immigrants tend to be born healthy and start life on an intellectual par with other American children, but by the age of 2 they begin to lag in linguistic and cognitive skills, a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, shows. The study highlights a paradox that has bedeviled educators and Hispanic families for some time. By and large, mothers from Latin American countries take care of their health during their pregnancies and give birth to robust children, but those children fall behind their peers in mental development by the time they reach... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372419/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:21:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2347767/posts Spanking can get kids to behave in a hurry, but new research suggests it can do more harm than good to their noggins. The study, involving hundreds of U.S. children, showed the more a child was spanked the lower his or her IQ compared with others. "All parents want smart children," said study researcher Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire. "This research shows that avoiding spanking and correcting misbehavior in other ways can help that happen." One might ask, however, whether children who are spanked tend to come from backgrounds in which education opportunities are less or inherited... LiveScience.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2347767/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334596/posts The word median is statistical: it is the point at which 50% of the observations of a thing are smaller and 50% larger. For example, according to the CIA Factbook, the median age of U.S. citizens is 37 years; thus, half the population is younger than 37, half older. Sometimes, as in Murray’s case, and in this review, the median is synonymous with average (sometimes the later implies numerical mean; the median and numerical mean are often nearly or practically equal). We accept that some people naturally excel at sports and that others, no matter the purity of their souls,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334596/posts#comment Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:57:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325224/posts <p>High-school students' performance last year on the SAT college-entrance exam fell slightly, and the score gap generally widened between lower-performing minority groups and white and Asian-American students, raising questions about the effectiveness of national education reform efforts.</p> <p>Average scores for the class of 2009 in critical reading dropped to 501 from 502, in writing to 493 from 494 and held steady in math, at 515. The combined scores are the lowest this decade and reflect stalled performance over the past three years. The reading scores are the worst since 1994.</p> Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325224/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:00:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323682/posts Every time they send a text message, watch a YouTube video, log on to Facebook and plug in their iPods, today's kids are getting stupider.At least, that's what Mark Bauerlein argues in his provocative book "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future."Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University in Atlanta, has spent the last few years touring the country evangelizing about the dangers of exposing the young to technology.His love-it-or-despise it book, newly released in paperback, has spawned heated arguments among parents, teachers and students who are spending more and more time plugged... star ledger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323682/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:24:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322249/posts I was on the Yahoo homepage a second ago, and found a link that mentioned IQ's and such of famous people and what do you know! Obama is a genius! But I love how they come to that conclusion. And guess what? Republican IQ scores are very low. Who would have guessed... Kids IQ Tests http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322249/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:57:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319599/posts There, I said it. After a year of campaigning, and 8 months of his Presidency, I have seen no evidence whatsoever that Barry Obama is actually more intelligent than George Bush. If we were keeping a running tally of gaffes, they are on course to be dead even. Without benefit of media cover, the populace at large would see the new President as a likable, sometimes well spoken buffoon. I would like to invite my fellow Freepers to use this post to present some of their favorite obama goofs and gaffes as sort of a reference post when engaging the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319599/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:10:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311042/posts The "professor gone wild" episode involving Harvard professor Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. has generated enormous media attention, but few, if any, commentators have tried to explain why this distinguished African American professor "lost it." Having personally encountered numerous black affirmative action professors first hand, let me offer an explanation that transcends this particular incident. First, Gates is the classic black "empty suit:" the articulate, well-attired, well-credentialed, superficially scholarly African American who is really an imposter, an actor playing a role. Gullible white outsiders (but not professors in "real" academic departments), are just easily conned by fancy vocabulary, name dropping and... View From The Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311042/posts#comment Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:16:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306034/posts The dumbest Senator ever brags about his smarts .. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306034/posts#comment Sat, 1 Aug 2009 17:52:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296785/posts CHICAGO -- Researchers for the first time have linked air pollution exposure before birth with lower IQ scores in childhood, bolstering evidence that smog may harm the developing brain. The results are in a study of 249 children of New York City women who wore backpack air monitors for 48 hours during the last few months of pregnancy. They lived in mostly low-income neighborhoods in northern Manhattan and the South Bronx. They had varying levels of exposure to typical kinds of urban air pollution, mostly from car, bus and truck exhaust. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296785/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:59:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2268457/posts London, U.K. (AHN) - A two-year-old girl has become one of the smartest girls in the U.K. after her IQ was measured at 160, the same as that of physics professor Stephen Hawking and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Karina Oakley of Guildford, Surrey near London made the score in the Stanford-Binet IQ test administered by child psychologist Prof. Joan Freeman. Part of the test is answering questions and the tot gave imaginative answers. When Freeman asked, "What do you use your eyes for?" Karina replied, "You close them when you go to sleep" and "You put your contact lenses in... All Headline News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2268457/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:30:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2266847/posts Like all of this year's graduates, Moshe Kai Cavalin is excited that he completed college, with a degree in astrophysics. But unlike the majority of college grads, Cavalin is only 11 years old and stands 4 feet, 7 inches tall. At the age of an average sixth-grader, Cavalin has gradated from East Los Angeles Community College. But, graduating college at 11 may not be his highest goal in life. "I want to be a movie actor and compete in the 2016 Olympics in martial arts," Cavalin told NBC affliate Wood TV. Fox News/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2266847/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 00:19:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266408/posts It might have been just a coincidence, but if it was, it was an awfully eerie one. Last week, 13-year-old Kayva Shivashankar won the 2009 National Spelling Bee by spelling the word "Laodicean." That word left a lot of Americans befuddled. Typically, the vast majority of Americans that are products of our nation's collective calamity known as the government schools have no clue how to spell or define the words used at the National Spelling Bee. "Laodicean" is certainly no different. The uninformed mainstream media did its typical best to keep Americans as uninformed as they are. Most of those... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266408/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 00:40:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265714/posts Moshe Kai Cavalin, 11, graduates with honors from East Los Angeles Community College this week, but just don't call him a genius. 11-Year-Old Graduates From LA College Watch Video Moshe Kai Cavalin, 11, is graduating with honors from East Los Angeles Community College this week. "I consider myself a regular kid who works hard and does his best," says this only child of a Taiwanese mother and an Israeli father. When Cavalin started college at the age of 8, he may have been the youngest person in class, but he ended up tutoring some of his 19- and 20-year-old classmates... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265714/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249711/posts Women with brains have more fun in bed than the average bimbo, new research suggests. A study of more than 2,000 female twins showed that those with greater emotional intelligence had larger numbers of orgasms. Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to monitor and manage feelings and emotions in oneself and others. The findings suggest that low EI is a risk factor for female orgasmic disorder, one of the most common sexual problems suffered by women. Up to 30 per cent of women find it difficult or impossible to reach a climax during sexual intercourse. Professor Tim Spector, director of... Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249711/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 01:52:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249622/posts Middle-class children are more likely to be clever than those from poorer families because they have 'better genes', former Ofsted chief Chris Woodhead said yesterday. The comments caused an immediate storm, with critics calling them insulting and 'crazy'. However, Mr Woodhead won support in some quarters - including the backing of an evolutionary psychologist, who said research had shown there was a link between class and average IQ. Mr Woodhead called for a return to selection by ability at 11. He suggested that grammar school pupils were more likely to be middle-class because 'the genes are likely to be better... The UK Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249622/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 23:04:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245118/posts Three UK explorers surveying the Arctic ice were down to rations of just 90g of food each per day until a resupply flight reached them on Tuesday. Bad weather had frustrated repeated attempts to land new food stocks at the ice camp set up by Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley. The explorers, from the Catlin Arctic Survey, usually consume enough food to give them about 6,000 calories per day. The cut in rations took them down to just 1,000 calories each. In the last few days before the flight landed, the team had gone without any hot food... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245118/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 04:39:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2242985/posts The mathematical technique called factor analysis was invented by psychologists specifically to answer the age old question, "Is there more than one kind of intelligence?" We now know that there are two: one called fluid g, measured by culture fair tests such as the Raven Progressive Matrices or the LAIT, and another called crystallized g, measured by culture loaded tests like the Concept Mastery Test or the Miller Analogies Test. What we call g has been defined as the ability to "educe relations and correlates," or in more everyday terms, the abilities for inductive ("relations") and deductive ("correlates") reasoning. Culture... Gift of Fire (Journal of the Prometheus Society http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2242985/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2009 00:59:31 GMT