Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Intro to physiological psychology
Humans have been assumed to be the intelligent animals on the planet. However, scientist have failed to explain completely as to how intelligence is measured across species. Brain size is certainly not a good measure, IQ is rather relative, and neither is brain-to-body ratio. There are several animals that have a greater brain-to-body ratios than us and also as obesity increases among our kind brain-to-body ration is decreasing. What i find interesting is that to this day we haven't been able to find a correlation as to why us and not the dolphins or the whales as the dominant species. Apart from the obvious, what sets us apart intellectually from other animals?
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That is true... how would scientists be able to measure the intelligence of other species. To measure a humans intelligence and IQ test would suffice but even at that there are all different kinds of intelligence out there. It seems rather complicated to say the least.
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