Who has the highest IQ in history? One answer would be: a 10-year-old girl from Missouri. In 1956, according to lore, she took a version of the Stanford-Binet IQ test and recorded a mental age of 22 ...

Asking people to exert more effort on a test of mental ability does not actually improve their score. A recent study published in Intelligence & Cognitive Abilities found that while financial rewards ...

I’m expecting all kinds of criticism for this blog. Some people will argue it’s overly simplistic. Others will assert it’s misleading--even dangerous—to suggest that you can assess intelligence –at ...