Kaj_Sotala comments on Boksops -- Ancient Superintelligence? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 31 December 2009 09:51:36AM *  4 points [-]

and there's little or no correlation between brain size and intelligence among humans.

Not exactly true. (Non-paywalled draft paper here). According to that meta-analysis, the correlation between brain volume and intelligence is 0.41 for female adults, 0.37 for female children, 0.38 for male adults and 0.22 for male children.