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28 April 2014
A study suggests IQ is not stable during teenage years as was thought but shifts in step with changes in particular brain areas.
A study by the University College London urges caution in using the 11+ exam for grammar school entrance to predict academic ability.
IQ is thought to be stable across a person?s life. Childhood scores are often used to predict education outcome and job prospects as an adult. But the study suggests scores are surprisingly variable.
Sue Ramsden from University College London recruited 33 pupils aged 12 to 16, from high achievers at 11+ to struggling students referred for assessments. She tested their IQ in 2004, and again three to four years later, and also analysed their brains using magnetic resonance imaging. The average of all scores stayed the same across the years, but individual IQ scores rose or fell by as many as 21 points, a substantial difference ? enough to take a person of ?average? intelligence to ?gifted? status, or vice versa. ?On average it all washes out, but there are fluctuations from individual to individual,? said Prof Cathy Price, who led the study.
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28 April 2014
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28 April 2014
Don't make a loss if you sell books on Amazon Marketplace.
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28 April 2014
Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, is to become a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.
She succeeds Colm Toibin, who completes his year-long tenure and Martin Amis who spent four years at the university and she will teach a post graduate MA workshop, MA seminar and lecture to undergraduates.
Winterson will also hold four public events a year at the universitys Martin Harris Centre, with renowned guests from the literary world.
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28 April 2014
Children are failing to pick up traditional values at school as teachers increasingly prioritise exam results over the development of character.
It has been claimed that the sheer demands placed on timetables are leaving schools with little opportunity to promote resilience, optimism, courage, generosity, empathy and good manners.
Anthony Seldon, the Master of Wellington College, Berkshire, said old-fashioned values were traditionally passed on to pupils through competitive sport, artistic performances and voluntary work in the local community.
But he warned that this was being lost in many schools because of the headlong pursuit of exam results to climb league tables and hit targets.
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28 April 2014
As noted in an earlier blog, there was no 'Save As' in Mac OSX Lion. Now 'Save As' has made a quiet, unannounced return in Mountain Lion. You can access the command by holding the alt key when you click on 'File' or as a keyboard shortcut: cmd-shift-alt-S
28 April 2014
The decisions we make and even the memories we hold are based on delusions.
A new book by David McRaney, You Are Not So Smart, consists of 48 short chapters on the assorted ways that we mislead ourselves every day.
The central theme is that you are the unreliable narrator in the story of your life. And this is because you're unaware of how unaware you are. It's fun to go through legitimate scientific research and pull out all of the examples that show how everyone, no matter how smart or educated or experienced, is radically self-deluded in predictable and quantifiable ways.
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28 April 2014
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