Using the same IQ test as the California study, the researchers found that when the children were 7, the IQs of those with the highest exposure in the womb was roughly three points lower, on average, than those with the lowest prenatal exposure.

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What occurs next is known as the Regional Startup IQ Test.

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Some 30% of American colleges have made the SAT test a rough proxy for IQ optional in the admissions process.

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The question of space control represents a sort of IQ test -- short for integrity quotient -- for today's uniformed leadership.

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Which reminds me: Can we, as the GOP base, demand an IQ exam as well as a test of basic knowledge from our congressional and presidential candidates?

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When it came time to buy computers to test the search algorithms floating inside their high-IQ brains, Page and Brin did what any money strapped students would do.

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For instance, last year, a large review study by Angela Lee Duckworth and her team a UPenn that found that rewarding people monetarily for completing an IQ test has a lot to do with how well they do on the test.

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