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25 April 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 19:03 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Intelligence tests are as much a measure of motivation as they are of mental ability, says research from the US.<\/p>\n

Researchers from Pennsylvania found that a high IQ score required both high intelligence and high motivation but a low IQ score could be the result of a lack of either factor.<\/p>\n

Incentives were also found to increase IQ scores by a noticeable margin.<\/p>\n

The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n

Firstly, it analysed previous studies of how material incentives affected the performance of more than 2,000 people in intelligence tests.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, found that incentives increased all IQ scores, but particularly for those of individuals with lower baseline IQ scores.<\/p>\n

Then the same researchers tested how motivation impacted on the results of IQ tests and also on predictions of intelligence and performance in later life.<\/p>\n

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Life is an IQ test and a personality test.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

End Quote<\/span> Dr James Thompson<\/span> UCL<\/span><\/div>\n

By using data from a long-term study of 250 boys from adolescence to early adulthood, they were able to conclude that some individuals try harder than others in conditions where the stakes are low.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the study says, “relying on IQ scores as a measure of intelligence may overestimate the predictive validity of intelligence.”<\/p>\n

Getting a high score in an IQ test requires both high intelligence and competitive tendencies to motivate the test-taker to perform to the best of their ability.<\/p>\n

Dr James Thompson, senior honorary lecturer in psychology at University College London, said it had always been known that IQ test results are a combination of innate ability and other variables.<\/p>\n

“Life is an IQ test and a personality test and an IQ result contains elements of both (but mostly intelligence).<\/p>\n

“If an IQ test doesn’t motivate someone then that is a good predictor in itself.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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