“Fluid Intelligence” of the Brits from the UK Biobank study: test results.

This post is a work in progress.

The last update and review: December 24, 2019.

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The UK Biobank study is a prospective cohort study that follows over a half a million individuals, aged 40 to 79 years old, from 22 assessment centers located in the United Kingdom from 2007 to the present day. Each participant had baseline measurements taken between 2007 and 2010, when genetic, behavioral, and biological data were collected.

The majority of participants completed tests of cognitive functioning, and on average four years later a sub-group of N =20,346 participants repeated most of the assessment (2). In another sub-group of N=4431, fluid intelligence was measured at three 2-year intervals over 6 years (1).

In this post, you can find the results of the test of “Fluid Intelligence” from the UK Biobank study.

Definition of Fluid Intelligence:

From Klinedinst et al, 2019 (1):

Fluid Intelligence, FI, is a cognitive domain encompassing general reasoning, pattern recognition, and the ability to solve novel problems without task-specific experience.

The questions of the test can be found in another post on this website: Aging-related and innate cognitive impairment: test your “Fluid Intelligence”.

The slides below show how the Brits who took the test answered the test questions.

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Selected References:

1. Klinedinst et al., Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 82 (2019) 396–405.

2. Lyall et al., PLoS One. 2016 Apr 25;11(4):e0154222.