Friday, August 30, 2013

Poverty may Lower the IQ, Study

Experiments conducted in India and the US show that poverty could sap people's brainpower and lower the IQ by upto 3 points.. The findings in the US journal Science suggest that being poor can drain a person's mental resources, leaving him or her less capable of focusing on other things, like solving problems and controlling impulses. "Because you have all these other things on your mind, you have less mind to give to everything else," said co-author ...

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