The academic institutions with the smartest students in the Lumosity study were MIT (1), Harvard (2) and Stanford (3).

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The HDI tree was one of the graphical statistical methods introduced in the visualization study conducted by MIT professor Cesar A. Hidalgo with the help of Northeastern University Professor of Design Isabel Meirelles and designers Geoffrey House and Dave Landry.

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The MIT study finds that inner city residents stood in line eight minutes longer than their suburban counterparts.

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In September, for example, an MIT study nicknamed 'Gaydar' demonstrated that researchers could accurately predict a Facebook user's sexual orientation simply by examining the user's friends list.

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Following him, Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics at MIT, introduced a study that found that access to microcredit actually caused a reduction in consumption among those with entrepreneurial aspirations.

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Although the MIT study does not give margins of error, the 2.6 minute average difference in waiting time surely falls within a reasonable margin of error.

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In a third study published in Nature, Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna and Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, and Bruce Banerdt of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, provide impact evidence from gravitational and topographical signatures on Mars.

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