Are you really smarter than a Neanderthal? - life - 06 December 2010. Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty. How weird are you? Oddball minds of the western world - life - 16 November 2010. Editorial: The rational case for irrational thinking Almost everything we know about human psychology comes from studying people like us – trouble is, we have a really strange way of thinking IF YOU are reading this, chances are that you're WEIRD.
Take the ultimate intelligence test - life - 27 October 2010. Apologies, but the 12 Pillars of Wisdom Test is now closed You might think it's obvious that one person is smarter than another.
But there are few more controversial areas of science than the study of intelligence and, in reality, there's not even agreement among researchers about what this word actually means. Unlike weight and height, which are unambiguous, there is no absolute measure of intelligence, just as there are no absolute measures of honesty or physical fitness. Nonetheless, over the decades, legions of scientists have devised tests that can show that one person is smarter than another just as surely as Olympic events can shed light on how much you can lift or how far you can jump.