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(Newser) - Smog might be just as bad for your brain as it is for your lungs, a study finds. Researchers monitored the air pollution 249 mothers were exposed to during pregnancy, then monitored their children. They found that high pollution levels corresponded to a four-point drop in the kids’ IQ scores... More »

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pregnancy • child development • air pollution • IQ tests

IQ Measures Not Just Brains, But Also Culture

Smarts index is rising because the world's more 'demanding'

Dec 13, 07 4:55 PM CST
(Newser) - The average global IQ is rising three points per decade not because humans are getting smarter, but because culture is getting more challenging—and the measure isn’t just a test of our smarts genes. The quotient effectively tests “the quality of the world [a] person lives in,”... More »

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race • culture • human intelligence • IQ tests

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