Category: Intelligence
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Clever raccoon. Wise humans?
A raccoon managed to solve an intelligence problem by bypassing it. In a study, the researchers set up a cylinder with a floating marshmallow too low for the raccoons to grab. For the training session, the team balanced some stones on the rim of the tube. When the raccoons knocked them in, it showed how…
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More clever: Meaning nothing (at all).
A 12-year-old girl who had an inkling she might be quite clever has taken a test and proved she was absolutely right. Lydia Sebastian achieved the top score of 162 on Mensa’s Cattell III B paper, suggesting she has a higher IQ than well-known geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. But the comparison doesn’t sit…
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Fate, Intelligence, Bombs.
On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air Force B-1 bomber launched an experimental missile that may herald the future of warfare. Initially, pilots aboard the plane directed the missile, but halfway to its destination, it severed communication with its operators. Alone, without human oversight, the missile decided…
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Idiocracy…
Is human intelligence rising with every generation? (1) wonders an article… Voters Prefer Candidates Who Look Healthy Rather Than Intelligent, is the title of another article. (2) What do you think? Is it logical to believe that evolution prefers the survival of the more intelligent? Do you see people with high IQ reproduce in similar…
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