But American voters react badly to such open displays of verbal intelligence and capacity for meta-reasoning.

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Prior to the entering the program, the students were tested for their spatial and verbal intelligence.

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When children were retested five to 20 days post-program, researchers found no significant increases in verbal intelligence or brain changes for the children who completed the visual art training module.

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When the Chinese-American scores were reassessed using up-to-date intelligence metrics, Flynn found, they came in at 97 verbal and 100 nonverbal.

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