20 Jan 2006, 9:47 pm
From the Herald Sun, 21jan06
LONDON -- Warrior tribes deep in the Amazonian jungle understand geometry, proving that human brains have an innate ability for pure mathematics, according to scientific research.
Children of Brazil's Munduruku peoples, with no formal education, scored the same on tests as US pupils. Geometry study goes back to the ancient Egyptians and early Greeks.
The people living in huts along the Cururu River in the Amazon readily grasped basic geometric concepts such as lines, points, parallelism and right angles, and could use distance, angles and other relationships in maps to find objects.
Researchers in France and at Harvard University said in the journal Science the research showed humans had a core understanding of geometry.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common ... 63,00.html
So how come I had to take it twice? 
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06 Oct 2015, 8:41 pm
LONDON -- Warrior tribes deep in the Amazonian jungle understand geometry, proving that human brains have an innate ability for pure mathematics, according to scientific research.
Children of Brazil's Munduruku peoples, with no formal education, scored the same on tests as US pupils. Geometry study goes back to the ancient Egyptians and early Greeks.
The people living in huts along the Cururu River in the Amazon readily grasped basic geometric concepts such as lines, points, parallelism and right angles, and could use distance, angles and other relationships in maps to find objects.
Researchers in France and at Harvard University said in the journal Science the research showed humans had a core understanding of geometry.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common ... 63,00.html
So how come I had to take it twice?
the IQ test?
There are: Lies, damn lies and statistics
