||1:Just a few generations ago, speaking two languages was supposed to be bad for you.||2:Tests in America found that bilingual people had lower IQS , which seemed evidence enough.||3:Later it became clear that those surveys were really measuring the material poverty of immigrants; members of such families were more likely to be undernourished and understimulated, not to mention the obvious fact that they often sat the tests in a language that was not their best.
||1:就在几代人以前，多掌握一门外语还被认为是无益的。||2:在美国，经测试发现，掌握两种语言的人智商较低，这似乎是有力的证据。||3:后来才渐渐弄清楚这些调查实际旨在衡量移民的物质贫困；移民家庭的成员更有可能营养不良和缺乏鼓励，更不用说他们经常用自己不擅长的语言参加考试这一明显的事实。
After all, it don’t take too much high IQs .
毕竟，这并不需要很高的智商。
This phenomenon, brought to the world’s attention in the 1980s by James Flynn of the University of Otago, in New Zealand, is that average IQs around the world have been rising at the rate of 0.3 points a year for the past eight decades.
上世纪八十年代，新西兰奥塔哥大学的詹姆斯福林让这一现象受到了全世界的关注，这一现象是：在过去的八十年里，世界的平均智商每年增加0.3。
The children in question were also asked, at the ages of three, five and seven, to take standardised reading, mathematical and spatial-awareness tests, from which their IQs could be estimated.
在三岁，五岁和七岁时，孩子们也会被要求去做标准化阅读、数学还有空间感测试，通过这些测试来评估他们的智商。
Irregular bedtimes left their IQs about six points below those of their contemporaries at the age of three.
在他们三岁的时候，无规律的就寝时间让他们智商分数要比他们的同龄人要低大约6分。
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‘he had learning and emotional disabilities and an IQ of 78’
‘an IQ test’
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‘he had learning and emotional disabilities and an IQ of 78’
