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#302 – Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences

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Recall Backwards Is a Good Protector, Right?

There's like research around stably what that means about the human mind. And here you're saying recall backwards is a good protector. The transformation. Yeah. So you have to do some like you have to load that into your brain. And not just remember it, but do something with it. That reaction time doesn't really correlate with IQ very much. But if you change the instructions and you say, three lights are going to come on simultaneously, I want you to press the button next to the light that's furthest from the other two. Your reaction time to that is highly correlated with the G factor. This is fascinating. It gives you intuition about what kind of questions get at

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