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Aug 2010
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Is IQ a "Fundamental Cause" of Health? C...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Lecture delivered by Professor Robert M Hauser (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Long-term studies of cognitive ability and mortality have documented a robust relationship between those two variables. Such studies have, for the most part, been remarkably silent on explanations for that relationship. Published explanations range from suggestions that raw int ... Show More
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