When ranked, ‘stable’ IQ scores drop
CALTECH (US) — Our cognitive abilities suffer when we feel that we are being ranked, such as in the classroom or at work, new research shows.The finding, from a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and four other institutions, flies in the face of long-held ideas about intelligence and cognition that regard IQ as a stable, predictive measure of mental horsepower. “This study tells us the idea that IQ is something we can reliably measure in isolation without considering how it interacts with social context is essentially flawed,” says Steven Quartz, professor of philosophy at Caltech and one of the authors of the new study, published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B....
Source: Futurity.org - Wednesday, 1 February
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