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Andrew Williams:
It's believed that I.Q. is fairly fixed after the first five years of life.

Psychologist Andy Williams, author of the book How Do You Compare, says there are some interesting things about your I.Q. you may not know.

There is a great study that shows if you were a big baby then you probably have a higher I.Q. Now a study done just a couple years ago determined that for every pound of birth weight that you weighed when you were born, your I.Q. became over two points higher. It is also found that taller children tend to be more intelligent. Taking into account variables like birth order, family size, family income, race and that type of thing tall children tend to have a higher I.Q.

Although these things are statistically true, Andrew says no one's really quite sure why. Now husbands and wives tend to have the same I.Q. and the reason for that is known.

A study from the University of Cambridge sought to find out why this happened. Well, the answer is people just tend to choose partners with a similar I.Q. to their own.

Oh, and if you're planning to take an I.Q. test and would like to bump up your score a bit…

There is a testing study that shows that individuals that chew a piece of gum for a few minutes and then take an intelligence test had a spike in intelligence that measured on the test.

You'll find a link to Andrew's website on ours, somethingyoushouldknow.net, I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.