Sentences with phrase «on intelligence tests»

When assessed at age 30, those whose primary source of nutrition as children came from breastfeeding performed better on intelligence tests.

Studies have proven that breastfed babies suffer from less illnesses and even score higher on intelligence tests later in life.

In addition to slowing down physically, most people lose points on intelligence tests as they enter their golden years.

Scientists have investigated this question for more than a century, and the answer is clear: the differences between people on intelligence tests are substantially the result of genetic differences.

Children in families where a father - figure is present do better on intelligence tests than those without a father figure.

Studies consistently show children and teens who read score higher on intelligence tests.

Preemies fed breast milk also performed better on intelligence tests at age 7 and a half and 8 years old.

One night of poor sleep significantly decreases performance on intelligence tests in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and also in neurotypical children (without ASD).

Indeed, he found, the bilingual people in this group performed better than expected on intelligence tests at their advanced age, and showed less relative cognitive decline compared to monolingual people.

«Children from large families tend to make poorer showings on intelligence tests and on educational measures, even when social class is controlled.»

All he'd ventured was that whatever factors explain why black Africans perform so poorly on intelligence tests written by westerners might also explain the limited effectiveness in Africa of social policies written by westerners.

The problem is that raw scores on intelligence tests actually peak in our teens, remain high for a few years, and then decline throughout life; iq remains fairly stable only because people decline at roughly the same rate.

Identical twins show a correlation of about 0.88 on intelligence tests when they grow up together, and only slightly less when they grow up apart.

Children whose mothers were exposed to higher levels of phthalates, common chemicals in consumer products, in late pregnancy tend to score lower than other kids on intelligence tests at age 7

Scoring very high on intelligence tests also has been linked to good mental health.

A study by Carroll University, Wisconsin, found that cat owners scored more highly on an intelligence test and were more emotionally sensitive than dog owners.

The Kansas City - based public - interest law foundation is challenging the state's ban on intelligence testing for black students, which was imposed following a court's finding that the tests were «culturally biased.»

In accordance with that questionable vision, the Singapore school system is essentially is one giant ode to tracking, with students placed in one of multiple available tracks based on intelligence testing that takes place from ages 10 to 12.

As Willingham says, «If it was important in school, it was important on the intelligence test.»

An NFL personnel executive told me that Gurley did not score well on his intelligence test.

One night of poor sleep significantly decreases kids» performance on intelligence tests, research shows.

Judge and co-author John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the Warrington College of Business looked at data collected as part of a multi-decade study that followed more than 1,500 California children who had scored high on intelligence tests.

Breastfeeding for a longer time improves a child's understanding of language measured at age 3, and their scores on intelligence tests at age 7, according to a new study published (2013) in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

Multiple studies suggest that chewing gum helps you feel more alert — one study even found that people who chewed gum performed better on an intelligence test than people who didn't.

Additionally, they perform better on intelligence tests and have higher school attendance.

One study found that women who continued to exercise throughout pregnancy had babies who scored higher on intelligence tests.

Breastfed children perform better on intelligence tests, are less likely to be overweight or obese and less prone to diabetes later in life.

Earlier work hinted that such children had better communication skills when they were 5 and scored higher on intelligence tests.

A Swedish study finds that 70 - year - olds in 2000 did better on intelligence tests than 70 - year - olds had done in 1971.

Sure I knew that on average, black Africans score lower on intelligence tests than white Americans, who score lower on intelligence tests than Asians, who score lower on intelligence tests than some other Caucasians: Ashkenazi Jews.

Because a new study finds that 70 - year - olds did better on intelligence tests than 70 year olds used to do.

Over time, the decline in participants» scores on the intelligence tests was strongly correlated with an increase in their inspection times, suggesting that it might be possible to use the simpler task as a proxy for more complicated intelligence tests in hard - to - reach elderly populations, the scientists report today in Current Biology.

When scientists compare children of the same age, they discover a fascinating pattern: The ones who are better at combining sights and sounds tend to score higher on intelligence tests.

People with faster responses tend to score higher on intelligence tests.

While the researchers did find that first - born children tended to score better on intelligence tests, they also looked at how birth order influence self - reported information on the five broad dimensions of personality: extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness.

Both are further prone to school problems leading to special placement in LD, BD, or MR classes, and lower scores on intelligence tests.

They also scored higher on intelligence tests.

According to the author, this string of tasks for persons about whom we know nothing and care little is like the kind of question that might be on an intelligence test.

The term intelligence has always connoted the kind of thinking skills that make one successful in school, perhaps because the first intelligence test was devised to predict likely success in school; if it was important in school, it was on the intelligence test.

To be labeled gifted in Louisiana, by and large, students must score at least two standard deviations above the mean on a standardized reading and math test chosen by the district or on an intelligence test (two standard deviations above the mean translates to a score of 130 on the IQ test and is near the 98th percentile).

A fundamental shift in how a disability is identified, making diagnostic decisions only after intervention rather than simply because a student's achievement test score is lower than the score on an intelligence test would predict