Dad's Beer-y Appreciation 1. Stop drooling and sign up for your free recipes. Tested for speed and minimal skill requirement by students and adults lacking kitchen experience. NOW Scientists have discovered that there may be some truth in the old cliche about being old and wise. They have found that that children with higher IQs are more likely to live longer.
Nobody is sure why more intelligent people are likely to live longer.
They then followed up to see who was still alive in 1997. It was found that both men and women with higher IQ scores as children were much more likely to be alive 60 years later. The researchers took an average IQ in the group as 100. It is thought that IQ is largely inherited. Environmental influences are also thought to play a role, but the influence of the family wanes rapidly past the age of seven or eight.