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Published online 6 November 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021104-7
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Memory miscalculation foils IQ
Neuroscientists challenge tenets of intelligence testing.
Many people underscore on IQ tests because the benchmark memory test is inaccurate, a US researcher told the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Orlando, Florida yesterday. Another announced that women's brain size could affect IQ.
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