#Intelligence quotient

Author: David Robson / Source: Big Think It’s now well known that many of us over-estimate our own brainpower. In one study, more than 90 per cent of US college professors famously claimed to be better than average at teaching, for instance – which would be highly unlikely. Our egos blind us to

Author: Christian Jarrett / Source: Big Think Given how many of us listen to music while studying or doing other cerebral work, you’d think psychology would have a set of clear answers as to whether the practice is likely to help or hinder performance. In fact, the research literature is rather a

Author: Donald Latumahina / Source: Life Optimizer When it comes to measuring someone’s potential in life, we are familiar with terms like Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and more recently Emotional Quotient (EQ). But there is another quality that’s also important. In fact, I believe that this is a

Author: Tina Hesman Saey / Source: Science News Only a day after the first test-tube baby turned 40, a poll about American’s attitudes toward tweaking unborn babies’ genes reveals the hopes and hesitations of being on the brink of the latest reproductive era. Americans generally favor gene

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Raccoon are clever, but are they as smart as a crow? The Aesop’s Fable test is an intelligence test named after the story in which a crow adds pebbles to water he can’t reach in order to bring the water level up to him. Researchers wondered if raccoons