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POPSStudy Shows Curvy Women Are Also Smarter A recent U.S. study made on 16,000 women and girls revealed that women with small waists and big hips scored better results at cognitive tests. The study will be published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior this week. The study’s authors from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Santa Barbara seem to have answers why men prefer women with smaller waist than hips, who they called curvy women, even if they are compared to their slimmer counterparts.
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POPSAre you happy with your IQ?
Prepare for the speculation, which is something that I sometimes do, sorry, you have the sources linked so you can draw your own conclusions. High levels of dopamine seem to be associated with contentment, so anxiety is probably related with low levels of dopamine, with is related with high IQ and memory. Once again intelligence and happiness seem to be contrary. The second part is more tricky. It is stated that self-confidence in intelligence may be unrelated with real IQ but is related with grades. What is the cause and the consequence between the high grades and self-confidence? May that mean that IQ tests are in fact not measuring intelligence? It is in fact tricky, but now take the first part again. Self-confidence seems related with high levels of dopamine, which is related with not-so-good IQ, but good grades. So if you are happy with your IQ chances are that it is not so high. Well, that made sense. However the brain is a complex system, a small change may have
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POPSBird brains prove to be very sexy Dr Keagy hopes this study will get people thinking about how sexual selection influences cognitive evolution."We can't ignore, however, that unless a male gets a female to mate with him, he will not pass on his genes. If an animal is carrying around something as big and expensive as a brain, why not use it for increasing his likelihood of mating?"
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POPS What The Heck Is IQ? I have taken the test before, and I thought it was so un-telling of one's intelligence in many ways. To know a fact such as how many miles is it between Paris and New York, I think is academic. That is something you would learn through an education. Not everyone that is intelligent is traditional educated. Also emotional IQ is so superior...well a balance would be important. Street Smart is to be considered too. I know some of the most intelligent people according to IQ, that have a hard time negotiating the day. The lose their keys, glasses and can't get anywhere on time...
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POPSUsing pot as a teen may affect thinking The researcher said he believes illicit use of THC during adolescence produces persistent changes in the brain that sensitize females to the negative effects of THC later in life. A group of 12 female rats, 35 days old -- an age equivalent to that of human teenagers about to undergo puberty -- began to be exposed to THC chronically for 40 days. Half had had their ovaries removed when they were 30 days old, half retained their ovaries. The day after the 12 females finished the period of exposure, they underwent an extensive training process consisting of pressing colored keys in a specific sequence in order to obtain food pellets. The female rats went from a 25 percent error rate to 50 percent error rate, Winsauer told United Press International. The study was presented at Experimental Biology 2009 as part of the scientific program of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in New Orleans.
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POPSMore Students Turning Illegally To 'Smart' Drugs One student says she took her first Adderall during her freshman year when she was cramming for tests. She and other students asked that their names not be used because using or selling these drugs without a prescription is a felony. "I would take it, and in about a half an hour, all of a sudden, looking at my journal which had all my assignments, I'd look at it and say, cool, OK," she says. "And I'd start to get more excited about work."
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POPSIncompetent individuals overestimate their ability While competent ones tend to underestimate theirs: The Dunning-Kruger effect is "'an example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it'". They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average." Could this be part of the reason wingnuts are so absolutely certain they're right?
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