Brendan Kelly Ph.D.

Brendan Kelly is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He is author of over 50 books including the recent "Intelligence, IQ & Perception", and "Intelligence: Where we Were, Where we Are & Where we’re Going." He holds two doctorate degrees: a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Number Theory) from U. of T. and an Ed.D. in Computer Applications from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and he curates his site on Quora titled, “IQ & Intelligence.”

Why might your dreams often seem as though they were produced by a brain that’s far more intelligent, creative, and humorous than your own?

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From our earliest beginnings, we humans have been mystified by our dreams, investing considerable effort into interpreting their meaning and their purpose. A dream’s clandestine existence below our level of consciousness, engages us during sleep and then melts away like a snowflake when we awake and attempt to recover it. The Poincaré-Hadamard  model for discovery …

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What insights into a person’s personality and intelligence can you get from their question or answer on the Quora site?

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What can we Learn about a person from a question they pose? When people submit questions for inclusion on the Quora site: Intelligence & IQ, the first question I ask myself is, “Is this something that would be of interest to a large number of our followers?”; if so I’ll search for an answer already …

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Are the so-called Intellectuals Falling into the Politically Motivated Reasoning Trap?

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In his seminal book *Thinking, Fast and Slow*, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman wrote: Social scientists in the 1970s broadly accepted two ideas about human nature. First, people are generally rational, and their thinking is normally sound. Second, emotions such as fear, affection, and hatred explain most of the occasions on which people depart from rationality. …

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Many people proclaim that intelligence stems from hard work alone. I would argue however that genetics certainly play a role as well. Am I correct?

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Today’s post is an answer to the question above posed by Kay C. An overwhelming amount of research supports your assertion that intelligence has a strong genetic component. In 1990, Thomas J. Bouchard et al. published a seminal article titled, Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart in which they assembled …

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What Nations have the Most Intelligent Populations?

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The United States is the world’s strongest economy and contains more Nobel Prize winners by far than any other nation in the world, but is its population as intelligent as the populations of other nations? According to a report on Forbes at Ranked: The 25 Smartest Countries In The World, the American population ranks 4th in intelligence among …

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Is the World becoming more Hostile, or is this just a Perception?

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 The media moguls understand that bad news sells more than good news. Consequently, we obtain a disproportionate amount of negative information in our newspapers, radio and television programs, prompting us to perceive the world as more hostile and dangerous than it is. A headline such as Alan Schmidlap achieved a Perfect Score in the International Mathematics …

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Why do we think some people are geniuses and others are not? Don’t we all possess the power to be one?

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It has been a popular notion that we are all intellectual equals. Several bestselling books have been published asserting that we all have genius within us and it’s just a matter of developing a passion and working hard to reach that status. This belief is comforting because it relieves us of the feeling that we …

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