25 Little Known Facts About IQ Tests and Intelligence

Ever taken an IQ test? Maybe you sat through a grueling proctored exam, or maybe you just took one of those sketchy Facebook quizzes that tells you you're a genius right before asking for your social security number. Either way, you walked away with a number and a vague sense of... something. But here's the kicker: most of what we think we know about IQ is either wildly oversimplified or just plain wrong. The guy who actually invented the test didn't even think it measured a fixed trait. Scores have been climbing for decades for reasons that have nothing to do with us getting smarter. And there was actually a guy with a math degree who had almost no brain tissue. Yeah, you heard that right. Today we're diving into 25 little-known facts about IQ tests and intelligence that might make you rethink how smart you really are. Grab your copy of What The Facts now, available on Amazon! Click the link to explore over 500 fun and fascinating facts! 👉👉https://www.amazon.com/WHAT-FACTS-ARE-TALKING-ABOUT-ebook/dp/B0DFNR2KHT/ Please support my channel and get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqJpFqlX59OML324QIByZA/join 🔔 Subscribe for more tips just like this: https://bit.ly/3Ewz99H 🚀 Watch our latest List25 Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/list25/videos 📨 Have a list idea? Submit it here: https://bit.ly/3Mu3gk1 Music: Name The Time And Place - Telecasted 0:00 - Intro 0:52 - The Man Who Invented the IQ Test Thought Intelligence Was Changeable 1:36 - Breastfeeding Gives Children a Measurable IQ Advantage 2:13 - Offering People Money Can Raise Their IQ Score by Up to 20 Points 2:47 - Brain Size Has Almost Nothing to Do With Intelligence 3:20 - IQ Scores Have Been Rising Every Single Generation 3:53 - Adding Iodine to Salt Raised the National IQ Average by Several Points 4:28 - IQ 100 Doesn't Mean Anything Fixed — It Always Just Means "Average" 5:00 - High IQ Doesn't Protect You From Making Terrible Decisions 5:34 - North Carolina Sterilized Over 7,600 People Based Partly on IQ Scores 6:10 - A British Court Once Banned a Man From Sex Because of His IQ 6:46 - Higher IQ Is Linked to Lower Risk of Concussion 7:19 - The U.S. Military Once Lowered IQ Standards and Sent Those Men to Die 7:56 - The Man Who Invented the Transistor Proposed Paying People to Get Sterilized 8:28 - Idiot, "Imbecile," and "Moron" Were Once Official Medical Terms With Specific IQ Ranges 9:00 - Lead Exposure Has Permanently Cost the U.S. Hundreds of Millions of IQ Points 9:33 - The Man Who Invented Fingerprinting Also Invented Eugenics 10:06 - Being in a Group Can Temporarily Lower Your IQ by Up to 17 Points 10:40 - Firstborn Children Score Slightly Higher on IQ Tests 11:14 - Poverty Functions as a Cognitive Tax That Temporarily Lowers IQ 11:48 - Over a Century of Research Has Found a Modest Link Between High IQ and Lower Religiosity 12:20 - Higher IQ Is Associated With Lower Risk of Developing Schizophrenia 12:52 - Higher Childhood IQ Is Linked to Lower Risk of Obesity in Adulthood 13:30 - A Woman With an IQ of 189 Died From Drinking Too Much Water 14:08 - The World's Most Exclusive IQ Society Has About 26 Members 14:48 - A Man With Virtually No Brain Tissue Had a First-Class Honors Degree 🍿 WATCH OUR OTHER VIDEOS: ► 25 Clever Facts About Your IQ: https://youtu.be/gdQRoBMBdeA?si=eLQpGy3e7eL1K00b ► 25 Weird Facts about Left Handed People: https://youtu.be/X889fQC6VZs?si=VNsZ_0sdt5LU1cEP List25 Discord: https://discord.gg/ZcKZRspW7f Facebook: http://facebook.com/list25 Instagram: http://instagram.com/list25 Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/list25 Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/list25 Mike Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbestrin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DizMeLife Twitter: https://twitter.com/DizMeLife Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelBEstrin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikeestrin/ Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/michaelbestrin Mike's Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/dizmelife See more lists on our website: http://list25.com Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research