Intelligence and Birth-Rate
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The Birth of Social Intelligence.
The ability to make sense out of the actions of others is critical to people's daily functioning. Adults are social experts: They understand that people's actions are directed at goals and are driven by intentions. In this article, the authors highlight key findings from studies examining infants' understanding of human action. These findings suggest that infants come to understand that intenti...
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When limited to siblings the results appear to show a definite tendency of intelligence to increase with the order of birth as far as the eighth born child. A check on the findings has been carried out by Miss Steckel of Sioux City, Iowa, in the testing of a normal population of twenty thousand school children, cases being drawn from 2,712 families, the study being limited to siblings. The resu...
متن کاملIntelligence, birth order, and family size.
The analysis of the National Child Development Study in the United Kingdom (n = 17,419) replicates some earlier findings and shows that genuine within-family data are not necessary to make the apparent birth-order effect on intelligence disappear. Birth order is not associated with intelligence in between-family data once the number of siblings is statistically controlled. The analyses support ...
متن کاملA study on birth-weight and intelligence.
INTRODUCIION The mental development of the premature or imnfature child has been studied by a number of investigators. The literature has been summarized recently by one of us (Asher, 1946). But although there is a considerable body of information on the subsequent intelligence of children of low birthweight, so far as we are aware no study has been carried out on the general relation of birthw...
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Most developed nations invest a considerable amount of public money in scientific research for a variety of reasons: most importantly because research is regarded as a motor for economic progress and development, and to train a research workforce for both academia and industry. Not surprisingly, governments are occasionally confronted with questions about whether the money invested in research ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1939
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/143484b0