Chatham comments on Innovation's low-hanging fruits: on the demand or supply sides? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Chatham 26 February 2014 02:55:23PM 0 points [-]

Good news. A recent study into incentives and IQ scores has shown that a monetary incentive of more than $10 can raise someone’s IQ score by 20 points. Looks like we can revolutionize the world pretty cheaply.

http://news.sciencemag.org/2011/04/what-does-iq-really-measure

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093513/pdf/pnas.201018601.pdf