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To what extent are correlations of father's age with birth defects and autism causal?
I read the following in the paper today:
Dr Karin Hammarberg ... said that while most
children are born healthy, large studies of parental age were starting
to show higher rates of birth ...
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How does raw IQ change over the lifespan at the group-level?
In the classic review of intelligence research (Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns), Neisser et al (1996) write the following
Stability. Intelligence test scores are fairly stable during
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Perception of time as a function of age
For many people time seems to run faster as they get older. That is, for an old person an hour, a day or a year seems to be shorter than for a young person.
Is there any hard data for such ...
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Is the decline of fluid IQ with age less severe for professors and scientists than it is for other people?
This article in Time magazine suggests that engaging in challenging mental tasks may be associated with lower rates of mental decline in older adults.
The article states that:
In one study, ...
