Intelligence

The concern with individual differences in intelligence is strictly a twentieth-century American phenomenon.

Aptitude scores, such as SAT scores, are a much better predictor of college performance of Whites than it is of Blacks.

Highly educated people die with more synapses than their less-educated peers.”

Today’s Americans score higher on intelligence tests than Americans did in the1930s.

Research states that a common ingredient of expertise in chess, dancing, & sports is about 10y of intense daily practice

Research findings support a Mozart effect, i.e. having infants listen to classical music boosts their cognitive ability.

Creative architects score no higher on intelligence tests than their less creative peers

There is a modest positive correlation between brain size and intelligence score.

As adopted children grow older, intelligence scores become more similar to their biological parents.

Among the intellectually disabled, males outnumber females by 50 percent.