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# IQ is as much a measure of motivation as intelligence, study finds
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## Parents if you want to improve your child's chances of getting into Mensa
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then bribe them during their IQ test, a new study suggests.
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![IQ is as much a measure of motivation as intelligence, study finds][1]
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Photo: GETTY IMAGES
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[![Richard Alleyne][2]][3]
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By [Richard Alleyne][4], Science Correspondent 5:00PM BST 26 Apr 2011
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[Comments][5]
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Scientists have shown that offering a financial reward for doing well can
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increase their score by up to 20 points on the scale where the average is 100
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and Mensa membership is around 150.
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The team at the University of Pennsylvania made the findings after setting out
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to prove that scores in the test were not just related to intelligence but
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also to motivation.
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They looked at 46 previous studies of more than 2,000 children to see if
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monetary incentives had any bearing on the result.
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They found that on average a financial reward improved the score by 10 points
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but that higher values - above $10 (about £7) - could be rewarded with a 20
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point increase.
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The size of the increase seemed to be proportional to the amount of reward
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offered.
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A second study of 500 boys found that those who showed signs of boredom and
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lack of motivation - for example yawning or looking around during the test -
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scored lower test marks.
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Angela Lee Duckworth, a psychologist who led the study, said: "IQ scores may
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predict various outcomes in life, but in part for reasons that intelligence
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tests weren't designed for.
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"I hope that social scientists, educators, and policy-makers turn a more
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critical eye to any kind of measure, intelligence or otherwise as how hard
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people try could be as important to success in life as intellectual ability
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itself."
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The findings were reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy
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of Sciences.
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