Sentences with phrase «measure intelligence at»

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In Spain, crushing austerity measures, a 22 percent unemployment rate and prominent corruption cases involving politicians from Catalonia and across Spain «has been the perfect storm, and the crisis has really helped» CUP, said Antonio Barroso, a London - based analyst at the Teneo Intelligence political risk consultancy.

His challenge to communities of religious faith is to acknowledge and take the measure of that intelligence, while at the same time fashioning a constructive critique that can raise the standards by which we assess what qualifies as the best and brightest.

At the 6.5 - year follow - up, the polyclinic paediatricians measured child cognitive ability using the Wechsler Abbreviated Scales of Intelligence (WASI).18 The WASI consists of vocabulary and similarities subtests for verbal IQ, and block designs and matrices for performance IQ.

Main outcome measures were Bayley's Scales of Infant Development at age 13 months (Mental Index, MDI; Psychomotor Index, PDI), Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scales of Intelligence (WPPSI - R), and Peabody Developmental Scales at age 5.

Morton's aim in measuring skulls from a diverse range of human groups was not to get at intelligence differences, as is sometimes claimed.

If Davidson is right, 21st - century society will move away from categorizing people based on standardized tests, which are crude measures of intelligence at best.

Herr has tested the leg at the state - of - the - art Gait Laboratory in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence building, donning a mask that measures his oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide exhalation to calculate how many calories he is burning.

Since the 1970s, researchers who study intelligence have hypothesized that smartness, as measured on standard IQ tests, may hinge on the ability to quickly and efficiently sample sensory information from the environment, says Stuart Ritchie, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.

«What we found is that weaning time — which acts as a measure of the prematurity of the infants — was a much better predictor of primate's intelligence than any of other measures we looked at, including brain size, which is commonly correlated with intelligence,» said Piantadosi.

The researchers — who examined data on more than 8,000 children up to age 14 — did find that breast - feeding was linked to a reduced risk of obesity and hyperactivity and measures of higher intelligence, but that breast advantage evaporated once they looked at families where one child was breast - fed and one wasn't (my exact situation — my older son got the breast while the younger one had to settle for formula because I had low supply).

Indeed, at a time when parents are being admonished to develop their children's emotional and social intelligences as much as their academic ones, it may well undermine parents» confidence in a results - based accountability system if all that system does is measure academic outcomes.

Dyslexia has no link to intelligence, though many people feel «stupid» and ashamed at school because they struggle with literacy skills — the cornerstone of how we measure ability.

In both books, Gardner argued that there are better — or at least alternative — ways to measure intelligence than standard IQ tests for students in both regular and special education.

Going even further, given the IQ test's history of being used to further questionable and sometimes racially motivated beliefs about what different groups of people are capable of, some researchers say such tests can not objectively and equally measure an individual's intelligence at all.

«We can't measure their intelligence,» says Bonnie Beaver, DVM, a former president of the American Veterinary Medicine Association and a professor of veterinary medicine at Texas A&M University.

At present, no tests are available that accurately measure feline intelligence or compare the thinking ability of cats to other species.

Nevertheless, he took the opportunity to elaborate on the PMOI standard of review and raised the question as to whether intelligence analyses and sources should be subject to the EU courts at all and «whether, in a system based largely on the confidence which the EU institutions place in the evaluation conducted by the competent national authorities of the seriousness of the evidence or clues to support a freezing measure, an intensive review of that evidence by the EU judicature is in fact appropriate» (Opinion para. 66).

At a larger level, you provided value to a featured entrée — landing and retaining longstanding clients contributing thousands if not millions to revenue and profits measured to the company's bottom line or contributing to strategic initiatives that impacted corporate marketing, branding, communications, product development, competitive market intelligence... and so forth.

The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT - R), administered at the 6.5 - month visit, is a brief vocabulary recognition test, which is strongly correlated with more comprehensive measures of adult IQ, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, median r = 0.72, and is highly stable over a 1 - year period, median r = 0.72.38 Quality of parenting was evaluated at 12 months on the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME), 39 which combines a semi-structured maternal interview with observation of mother - infant interaction.

Intelligence quotient was measured with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) 33 at ages 7 and 9 years and was averaged (r =.79).

Cognition measured by IQ at 3.5 years (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - IV32) and at 14 years (WISC - V31 or an equivalent adequate version at the time) are secondary outcomes, together with outcomes related to psychomotor development, behaviour and ADHD.

A «fixed mindset» assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens that we can't change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled.

The sale of the 90 - year - old Craftsman brand to Stanley Black & Decker Inc. was a «stopgap measure» at a disappointing price, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Noel Hebert.