Thursday, 29 May 2014

The year I lost eidetic memory was the year I became creative

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* I was always very good at exams - the best in my non-selective school - heavily reliant on a strong eidetic/ literal/ photographic memor...
Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Maybe very high intelligence IS (nearly-) always creative - although high IQ test scores are not

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* I have been thinking lately that it seems possible that very high intelligence is always (or almost always) creative - despite that peop...
Monday, 19 May 2014

A challenge to those who disagree that sRT speed and/or general intelligence has declined a lot over the past 150 years

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* Replicate Galton's sRT 183 ms group. During 1884-93 Francis Galton found about 2,500 men with a median simple Reaction Time (sRT...
Sunday, 18 May 2014

Is there really such a thing as 'low hanging fruit'?

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* It was only after I started getting interested in intelligence research about seven years ago that I heard the phrase 'low hanging f...
Saturday, 17 May 2014

Mutation accumulation as the major cause of declining intelligence - WD Hamilton

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* I have come across a useful round-up the idea of mutation accumulation as the most likely significant mechanism for rapid decline in hum...
Friday, 16 May 2014

What do simple reaction time measurements mean to intelligence research?

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* Simple reaction time measures a very simple situation - how quickly somebody can respond by pressing a button (or equivalent) to a sudde...
Thursday, 15 May 2014

The basic, biological, selectional Human Condition

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/what-is-human-condition-through-most-of.html *
Tuesday, 13 May 2014

The apparently *sudden* disappearance of English geniuses from the 1960s

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/how-could-english-genius-apparently.html *
Monday, 12 May 2014

"All" modern geniuses will probably be oddballs

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* Due to the 150-200 year decline in general intelligence, there are not many potential geniuses born nowadays (not many in total, and onl...
Thursday, 8 May 2014

The evolution of genius. The necessity is for the production of enough geniuses, and a society which values products of genius

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* I had a valuable conversation with Michael A Woodley yesterday, in which he gave me a new and very significant insight into the nature o...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Cognitive Neurointelligence - an agenda for case-based clinical research into intelligence

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* Following from: http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-need-for-case-studies-in.html If it is agreed that intelligenc...
Monday, 5 May 2014

The need for individual case studies in intelligence research

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* Intelligence research grew as the study of comparatively-tested groups - and indeed the IQ measure is comparative, since it describes re...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Understanding dreaming sleep, the awake state and deep sleep from an Einsteinian perspective - different relative speeds of time

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* The three consciousness states of Dreaming Sleep, Awake and Deep Sleep can be understood by analogy with Einstein's theory of Genera...

Some implications of men cognitively-maturing more slowly than women - men reaching maximum intelligence at an older chronological age than women

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* It is general regarded as a solid fact that women reach full maturity earlier than men, and this almost certainly applies to brains - an...
Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Reconsidering the exceptional nature of Ashkenazi Jewish intellectual achievement in the light of declining European intelligence over the past 200 years

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* It is well-established that, through most of the twentieth century, Ashkenazi Jews (that is, Jews from central Europe, around Germany) h...
Thursday, 17 April 2014

What IS intelligence (in the lay sense)? How do people think?

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* What is a good way of conceptualizing intelligence in the sense that lay people use the term? It is mostly an ability to think - rathe...
Friday, 4 April 2014

The Natural Selection of European Genius - a speculation

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* Speculation time... Creative Genius is a combination of high general intelligence (g) and (moderately) high Psychoticism (see elsewher...
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Graph added to illustrate 'dysgenic' slowing in simple Reaction Times

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* Added to : http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/further-evidence-of-significant-slowing.html *
Friday, 28 March 2014

What IS somebody's IQ? Only an approximate measure - the example of Robert M Pirsig

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* IQ is not a precise measurement - especially not at the individual level, and especially not at the highest levels of intelligence when ...
Thursday, 27 March 2014

What is Working Memory? How does it relate to general intelligence? Speculations...

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* NOTE ADDED 15 MAY - I HAVE COME TO THINK THE BELOW CONCEPT OF WORKING MEMORY IS WRONG, OR AT LEAST USELESS AND MISLEADING. INDEED I WOND...
Monday, 24 March 2014

Researching the decline of intelligence measured by reaction times. Where next?

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* Now that the approximate magnitude of previously estimated simple reaction times slowing over the past century or so has been confirmed ...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Further evidence of significant slowing of reaction times, and decline of intelligence, over recent decades in the UK: a method comparing longitudinal prediction with cross-sectional observation (LPCSO)

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* This is a re-analysis of the data from Deary IJ, Der G. Reaction time, age and cognitive ability: longitudinal findings from age 16-63 y...