Kids’ Drawings May Paint a Picture of Later Intelligence
Live Science:
How well can your 4-year-old draw? Their ability to draw a picture of a child may be linked to their intelligence at age 14, a new study suggests.
The study, which involved more than 7,700 pairs of identical and nonidentical twins, found that genes play a role in the link between early drawing ability and later measures of intelligence. But the findings don’t necessarily mean little Timmy’s messy drawings are cause for concern.
“The correlation is moderate, so our findings are interesting, but it does not mean that parents should worry if their child draws badly,” Dr. Rosalind Arden, a professor of psychiatry at King’s College London, in the U.K., and lead
author of the study published yesterday (Aug. 18) in the journal Psychological Science, said in a statement
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