• Injuries from Teen Fighting Deal a Blow to IQ
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[QUOTE=SoniMax;41709751]the ball is pretty hard and when it flies and you hit it is even harder, so when you smash very hard objects against your skull repeatedly the bone will somehow adjust and start pressing on the brain so eventually your forehead will be flat and you'll be missing an amount of brain cells. Personally it doesn't seem very smart idea to smash your head against hard objects...[/QUOTE] Exhibit A.
[QUOTE=mblunk;41716778]It's extremely solid as long as you have a decent (>100) sample size. Scientists need some sort of way of quantifying intelligence, and there's no simpler way to do that than to have a standardized test for it. Of course that means you're just measuring how good people are at IQ tests, not their intelligence, but for anyone who isn't trying to game the test just to get a big number, it's irrelevant. I have no clue why FP goes nuts anytime IQs are mentioned, they're a very important metric to have. Not to mention it's really simple, 15 points is one standard deviation, so having an IQ of 115 puts you one SD above the population mean (84th percentile), 130 puts you two SDs above (97.7 percentile), etc.[/QUOTE] Plus IQ is important for measuring learning disabilities, when your achievement and IQ don't match then you can be helped. It's not like it's some crazy concept
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