Great article on how one school is putting brain research findings into practice

Very interesting article from the NYT Magazine about how one school is putting brain research findings into practice.

Can You Make Yourself Smarter?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-yourself-smarter.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4

Photo illustration by Clang

By DAN HURLEY

Published: April 18, 2012

“What Your I.Q. Means

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17 percent of the world population; superior I.Q.; appropriate average for individuals in professional occupations.

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10 percent; potentially gifted; average for college graduates

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2 percent; borderline genius; average I.Q. of most Ph.D. recipients

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1 percent; genius level; about average for Ph.D.’s in physics

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1 in 10,000; Nobel Prize winners

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1 in 30,000; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the chess champion Bobby Fischer.”

Using gaming strategies to confirm the benefits of working-memory training on fluid intelligence will need further confirmation but this article is still interesting . . .

Dan Hurley is working on a book about intelligence.

Stephen