Questions tagged [intelligence]
For questions about levels of abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, reasoning, learning, having emotional knowledge, retaining, planning, and problem solving, their roles in education, testing such levels, and deficiencies in these levels.
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What cognitive abilities show the smallest B-W differences in mean scores? [closed]
Traditionally, employee selection tests focus on cognitive abilities such as reading, reasoning, and math. These have large Black-White (B-W) effect sizes (standardized mean score differences). The ...
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Does high IQ correlate with good social skills?
Are people with a high IQ more likely to have good social abilities? Are they more likely to be popular?
Wikipedia lists that IQ helps with school performance, job performance and income. It's ...
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Obsessions: Synopsis and Effects
I've been thinking about this topic quite a lot recently. What exactly is obsession ? Is it a good trait indicating perseverance for a goal ? Or is it a sign of a psychological disorder ? Is it a sort ...
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Why might a person get widely varying scores on different online IQ tests?
Online IQ tests often yield wildly varying results (say 60 - 150). These are actual values obtained by repeated measures. It is puzzling, because it's such a wide range. How can the same person be ...
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Does deep, slow breathing increase mental performance?
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 said that breathing deeply and slowly increases mental performance, but I couldn't find any studies that really study the claim, and the book is a self-help book, which tend ...
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Sleep deprivation and task performance
Case: In case of an adult, the average adult sleep time required is 7.5 to 8 hours. Suppose the person (aged between 23-29) has slept only 6 hours, or less than the average time (7.5 to 8 hours).
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Why do men have greater variance than women in mental test scores?
Hedges and Nowell (1995) write that
Sex differences in central tendency, variability, and numbers of high
scores on mental tests have been extensively studied. Research has not
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Have different mental strengths evolved in men and women?
I think that men and women are different mentally (but nonetheless equals), however this way of thinking is very hard for me to explain philosophically, so I'd like to learn about what roots this ...
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What are the 50 words on the Wechsler Test of Adult Reading (WTAR)? [closed]
I recently took part in a study that asked me to read 50 words that were spelled differently than they were pronouced, some more commonly used than others. Does anyone know where I could find this ...
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What is Intelligence? Is it based on prediction capability of an agent? [closed]
I have the intuition that at a first level is the capability of an individual to predict outcomes of her/his/its own actions in a environment were he/she/it has familiarity with (don't you feel stupid ...
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Is there a relation between speed of executing a task and ones intelligence?
I recently came across a code refactoring problem. Considering the risk of getting into a risky bug later I switched to my usual mode of think and solve it, rather than go and make the changes fast. ...
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What makes you feel smarter after sprinting? [closed]
Background: Every time I sprint, I feel smarter the day after.
Why would someone feel smarter after they have been sprinting?
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Gender differences in IQ among undergraduate psychology students
While marking undergraduate coursework relating to gender differences,
it occurred to me that there could well be systematic effects of gender on IQ among the undergraduate populations relied on for ...
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Do Jewish people have better cognitive abilities than average population?
Jewish people are overrepresented in politics and science especially in the United States. Do they have better cognitive abilities than average population? If yes, what is the reason for this?
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How to interpret a BBC news article on the effect of race on intelligence?
In spring 1998, Robert Plomin claimed to have discovered a gene linked with intelligence. More recently, the Human Genome Project was cautious when approaching areas implying racial differences since ...
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Difference between forms of Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CFIT) scale 3
I would really like to know what are the differences between the form A and form B of Cattell's Culture Fair Intelligence Test scale 3?
To my knowledge (reading the "methods" section in the ...
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How do laypeople form a judgment that another person is smart or intelligent? [closed]
I am curious: When do we label a person as being 'intelligent', 'smart' or 'clever'? This is subjective, and it seems unlikely that it is possible to reach a bulletproof definition. A high IQ has been ...
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What method(s) are available which demonstrably increase a person's g factor, (assuming such are available)?
Following up on this question:
What method(s) are available which demonstrably increase a person's* g factor, (assuming such are available)?
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What factors affect the g factor?
Is / are there any scientific studies on factors which affect the general intelligence (g) factor?
I did a Google search, but could not find any academic papers on the topic.
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What are the average raw scores, and standard deviations for the WAIS-IV subtests?
What are the average raw scores, and standard deviations for the WAIS-IV subtests (scores are normalized)?
For example, the digit symbol task gives you 120 seconds to substitute as many digits for ...
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How to calculate IQ from bhatia battery test?
How to find out IQ from bhatia battery test? Suppose time for each of the 5 subtests is noted down. What are the steps to reach at an IQ value from here?
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Does limiting mental activity during the day increase mental performance later in the day?
Is there any scientific evidence to support the idea that you only have so much cognitive energy in a given day; and if so, would the mental abilities of someone who focuses on as little as possible ...
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Super polymath feasibility: Is it possible to have the highest intellectual ability in every area?
Could a single individual have the abilities of Gauss in mathematics, play soccer like Messi, write like Dostoyevsky, play chess like Carlsen, have ideas in physics comparable to those of Einstein, ...
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Is Brain Sync music effective in increasing cognitive functioning? [duplicate]
From the website:
BRAIN SYNC meditation CDs and guided imagery techniques are proven to
significantly improve mental performance. In two decades, nearly 3
million Brain Sync users have ...
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Are "dumb product warning labels" an indicator of change of intelligence of general public? [closed]
I've recently heard a podcast by mr Flynn, the discover of the Flynn effect. According to him, populations worldwide are gaining about 3 points of IQ with each generation, but the kind of their ...
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Can reduced cognitive load lead to some kind of mental or physical "atrophy"?
Muscles, if you don't use them, degenerate. Everyone who has had a broken leg in a cast for a few weeks and then seen the thin stick that reemerged once the cast was removed, can attest to that fact.
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Does a more ergonomic and user friendly interface/device make the human brain work less?
There was an interesting discussion on UX.StackExchange related to washing machines and their front windows. I was very surprised that it took me like 2 minutes or so to figure out why the washing ...
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Does the scarcity of female programmers, suggest that men are more intelligent than women?
Developing software is simultaneously artistic and scientific, which accounts for its appeal for some of the smartest and intuitive people on the planet
There is a generally observable and most ...
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How are the questions in IQ tests formulated?
I would like to know how psychologists come up with the questions they include in an IQ test and how they know that those questions will accurately measure intelligence? How has it been proved that IQ ...
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How to achieve homeostasis and cognitive closure, while living with more infinite unanswered questions and concrete explanations?
In this question we learn, curiosity (and scientific research in general) is a cycle that arises when one connects dots when analyzing new answers, which most of the time leads to more unanswered ...
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Can the daily use of two or more languages impact cognitive capacity?
I've read the following threads:
Is it possible to think in a second language?
Does language and/or culture affect an individual's cognitive capacity?
is it possible to think without language?
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Have IQ-type measures been tried for other animals?
Despite the obvious difficulties pertaining to definition and measurement, and the various controversies surrounding the use of IQ-type scores in human beings, it seems unquestionable that there are ...
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Is the price of higher intelligence and more complex behaviours more mental illness?
"Our work shows that the price of higher intelligence and more complex
behaviours is more mental illness."
-Professor Seth Grant Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh
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What's the percentage of people that are mental calculator prodigies?
I want to reply to this comment:
What's the percentage of people that are mental calculator prodigies?
How do they spread over the different parts of the world?
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How far can we train mental calculation?
Mental calculators are people with a prodigious ability in some area of mental calculation, such as multiplying large numbers or factoring large numbers.
Unfortunately I forgot where I heard it, but ...
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What causes a person to be curious, inquisitive and explorative?
Why do humans (primates) tend to be curious, inquisitive and explorative?
They want to know things that they do not. They explore stuff in an attempt to find something new which makes them ...
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How does cognitive science explain the origins of intuition and intelligence, that accurately describes the laws of nature?
What is the origin of non-incremental, revolutionary intuition and intelligence?
For example, a human mind like Albert Einstein's can "come up" with revolutionary ideas and theories that correctly ...
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Learned dyslexia? adult predicament from childhood teacher´s incompetence? [closed]
I have a friend, over 30, who is convinced she cannot really read. Of course; she can read, but she struggles so much with sorting letters into words that she cannot absorb the content. Playing - say ...
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What is the optimal exercise regime for improving cognitive functioning?
It seems that researchers agree that physical exercise increases cognitive abilities. This seems to work universally for all ages: children, adults and old people.
It is suggested that everyone ...
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Is there a relationship between schizophrenia and genius?
When reading the biography of renowned personalities recognized as "geniuses" such as great mathematicians, painters or poets, I was surprised by the fact that a great portion of this population that ...
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Why don't people read instructions?
Some people are very careless when reading instruction on a work task they've been given or in reading any other kind of text. They would skip some of the sentences, not get deep into other and ...
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Effect of time limits on problem solving
I recently took part in psychological testing as part of a recruitment process to a job. I was not happy about the evaluation I got and I asked for a feedback discussion with the psychologist. The ...
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What exactly is IQ, and how to develop or improve it?
Some people are said to have exceptionally high IQ.
What exactly is that supposed to mean?
Is it possible to develop high IQ if one doesn't have it? If yes, then how?
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What is the neurobiological basis of Spearman general factor of intelligence?
I found a brief intro to the genetic factor of human intelligence: "Biology of human intelligence" by J A Böök (1976).
Also it is known that gyrus hipocampii is basis of STM which have role ...
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To what extent is time to complete an intelligence test incorporated into the IQ score?
In this previous question on scoring IQ tests the OP asked about the effect of speed of test, but it was a bit peripheral to the core question. So I thought I'd ask it as a separate question.
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How to calculate IQ score based on raw score and adjust for age?
I am having a hard time grasping how IQ scores are calculated. I think it has something to do with their age score ratio multiplied by 100.
Say I have a test that holds 30 questions. How would I ...
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Duration-independent intelligence tests
Being able to measure intelligence (or the problem-solving aspect of it) quantitatively could be indispensable in fields like cognitive science or artificial intelligence. Obviously, IQ tests aren't ...
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Is "doing everything in your head" a good proxy for intelligence?
Suppose Bob never takes notes in class and just mentally "gets" a subject. Is this ability of mentally learning a subject without actively recording the information a good proxy for intelligence?
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Does intermittent fasting increase intelligence?
A little Background:
The protocol I am taking about is 16-20 hours of fasting and a 4-8 hour eating window (e.g. fasting between 6 PM and 10 AM). I have been doing IF (intermittent fasting) for 7 ...
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How did the unique features of human intelligence evolve?
I have been debating the following topic with a friend.
She argues that humans do not descend from chimpanzees or orang-utans, because if we did, such animals would share the same cognitive thinking ...
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