IQ tests were designed to measure cognitive ability, but decades of research show they reflect education, culture, and socioeconomic background as much as innate intelligence. Senate Democrats block ...

As the self-quantification movement matures, users are expanding beyond physical tracking to assess how they think, decide, ...

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the execution of people who are intellectually disabled. Next week, on Wednesday ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Experts were sure that the 20th century would make us stupid. Never before had culture and technology reshaped daily ...

The intelligence quotient (IQ) is a standardized measure of cognition, or your ability to think, understand, reason, learn, and remember. By design, the average IQ score is 100. Higher IQ scores are ...

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied Alabama law, which allows judges to consider “evidence of intellectual ...

The president predicted that Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam President Donald Trump seemed to refer to a dementia ...

President Donald Trump lobbed a signature zinger on Tuesday as he paused to speak with reporters before boarding Marine One en route to an artificial intelligence summit. "[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], ...

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