Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Two Interesting IQ articles

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050202_reaction_time.html

Apparently reaction time might be an even stronger indicator then IQ for longevity... bring my my coffee!

And, smart people are more apt to choke under pressure

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050209_under_pressure.html

I take some issue to them saying that doing as well as the lower scoring group is "cracking" and it's possible that it simply implies that "checking your work" causes your score to drop, and smart kids only do it under pressure, where as dumb people do it all the time.