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Can being ranked by intelligence reduce your intelligence?

Eric Barker
February 2, 2012

Via Harvard Business Review:

A group of participants suffered an average IQ drop of 17.4 points during an experiment in which they were ranked by their intelligence scores, suggesting that simply being ranked can profoundly diminish some people’s ability to express their cognitive ability, says a team led by Read Montague of Virginia Tech. Not everyone in the experiment responded this wayâsome participants’ scores even improved.

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Title Can being ranked by intelligence reduce your intelligence?
Author Eric Barker
Date February 2, 2012 8:55 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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