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Secrets of the Creative Brain
- theoh 12y ago"One finding that emerged quickly was that being the youngest student in a grade was an excellent predictor of having a high IQ. (This is worth bearing in mind today, when parents sometimes choose to hold back their children precisely so they will not be the youngest in their grades.)" That's a very questionable inference (that it is being the youngest that results in a high IQ). It seems much more likely that, for kids near the cutoff point, smart ones get promoted to the higher grade, and dumber kids don't. Selection effect, voila. I am not impressed by the rest of the article. George Lucas is interested in interior design? So are a huge fraction of the non-famous population. It doesn't count towards being a polymath, let alone a genius, in my book.