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by xiaoma 5477 days ago
Cite that it has happened, and cite that it matters, please: Brain size is only very loosely correlated with intelligence

Maybe you should share some of your own citations before making claims like that.

The correlation between raw volume performance on general mental ability assessments is about .4, which is very significant. For a comparison, siblings' intelligence has a correlation of about .47. Considering that siblings share both a great deal of the same genes and have a similar environment, the fact that brain volume has nearly the same correlation is huge.

http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/002074508023258...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11129/box/A1833/