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Among psychologists even, IQ tests are hotly debated, no matter how many questions are asked. For instance, Welsh-speakers discovered that their children performed worse on short term memory tasks (more specifically, ones that utilized the phonological loop). Does this mean that Welsh-speakers aren't as smart? No! I'm sure that you've heard that a human can remember about 7 +- 2 items in memory at once. Well ... this isn't entirely true -- it depends on what language you remember them in. For remembering digits, mandarin chinese speakers can recall about 9 digits on average, English 7, and Welsh 3. Why? One psychological theory guesses that we have phonological loops in our short term memory that continually require that data be refreshed through rearticulation. Welsh digits take longer to verbally pronounce than other languages'! There is more to this, but the main question i'm asking is -- there are so many components to intelligence, how do we know which to measure? And even when we do know which to measure (e.g. in this case memory span), can we accurately measure them across cultures? (to save some time, the answers are: we don't, and no) Danny

WOW! Nice job jan and poya -- this looks GREAT so far! And congrats to Acumen for really tying the programming team together to make this possible. It looks like a bright future is ahead Danny