Being dumb has its benefits. Scottish soldiers who survived the second world war were less intelligent than men who gave their lives defeating the Third Reich, a new study of British government records concludes. The 491 Scots who died and had taken IQ tests at age 11 achieved an average IQ score of 100.8. Several thousand survivors who had taken the same test - which was administered to all Scottish children born in 1921 – averaged 97.4. Read more in the article here... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16297-intelligent-soldiers-most-likely-to-die-in-battle.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=life
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Intelligent soldiers most likely to die in battle
Being dumb has its benefits. Scottish soldiers who survived the second world war were less intelligent than men who gave their lives defeating the Third Reich, a new study of British government records concludes. The 491 Scots who died and had taken IQ tests at age 11 achieved an average IQ score of 100.8. Several thousand survivors who had taken the same test - which was administered to all Scottish children born in 1921 – averaged 97.4. Read more in the article here... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16297-intelligent-soldiers-most-likely-to-die-in-battle.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=life
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