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Slow Starters Have Higher IQ?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the assuming-they-kick-start-at-all dept.

lockefire writes "Science Daily is reporting that children with 'superior' IQ's tend to have a slow start in the development of their cortex. These children have a 'delayed but prolonged' spurt that causes their cortex thickness to peak later than their peers and thin much quicker. This effect is most evident in the pre-frontal cortex. 'People with very agile minds tend to have a very agile cortex,' says Dr. Philip Shaw of the NIMH."

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  1. I'm Canadian.... by sharkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    they put me in here because they think I'm slow, eh?

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  2. i was by voudras · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    arrested once for exposing my pre-frontal cortex

  3. from the wisdom that is ralph wiggum... by pxuongl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i'm idaho!

  4. And Have Less Sex, Don't Reproduce As Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    and thus are not dominant in the gene pool.

    So they're kinda off to the side - the apes that are learning to use sticks while the other apes are, uh well, fucking each others' small brains out and making more apes.

    Kinda redefines "success", doesn't it.

  5. Re:What does that say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It says just this:
    "OMG!!! ROFFLE!!!! LMAO i got FIRST POST!!! I roxor!! OMG! i am KEWL!!!! LOALL I GOT A FIRST POST WOW! i win"
    But.. with more capital letters, if it only were not for the lameness filter, you know.