How to guess the future IQ of a child with just raisins

Raisins are not only dessert or ingredients for making pastries, but can also be used as a tool to test and conjecture intelligence of children in the future. This may be the simplest childhood aptitude test ever invented.

Children's IQ test through raisins

Researchers from the University of Warwick (UK) discovered, by placing a raisin in a cup and asking a 20-month-old to not eat it until instructed, we could attend guess how smart and smart the child is at 8 years old.

Although resisting the temptation of a small piece of dried fruit seems relatively easy to older children, in reality, this self-control test is hard to overcome for most young children. However, according to the researchers, the children who show enough self-discipline to wait for a minute will definitely be good.

Young children are very hard to resist the temptation of small fruit pieces, like raisins.(Artwork: Health).

Research results show that, at about 8 years of age, those who succumb to the temptation of this raisin will have an average IQ of 7 points higher than their peers. Small fruits dry earlier. The research team said the experiment was aimed at checking the child's attention span and learning ability, and it could also be done using chocolate or marshmallows.

British scientists especially like to use this test to find out if premature babies have difficulties in learning in the future.

Professor Dieter Wolke from the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick School of Medicine, explains: "The challenge with raisins is a simple and effective tool, good evaluation of restraint in young children only. Within 5 minutes, it can be used in clinical trials to identify children at risk of attention, attention and learning problems. Guess centralized adjustment and higher academic achievement at the age of 8. This discovery also shows the ways to improve the potential for early intervention in premature babies ".

Instead of raisins, your child's self-restraint test can be done with marshmallows.(Photo: Telegraph).

The test was invented by Mr. Wolke and colleagues similar to the famous Stanford marshmallow test in the 1960s, which was designed to measure procrastination rewards. In it, children are choosing between getting a treat right away or receiving two receptions if they wait 15 minutes.

Subsequent studies show that children who wait for much more success in their future lives.

When asked if parents could try the test on their children at home, Professor Wolke said: "The results of the tests conducted by the parent may be different from However, if an independent examiner does, however, if a child is unable to regularly control the reaction immediately, it implies that parents can do something, such as stating that children cannot. violating instructions and having to wait for a short time ".