Posted: Aug 19, 2014 1:57 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28852471
B.B.C. Article
The way children draw at the age of four can be a predictor of later intelligence, a study has suggested.
Researchers asked 7,752 pairs of twins to draw a picture of a child which was then scored by the number of features such as head, legs, hands and feet.
The children were also asked by the King's College, London team to complete intelligence tests at age four and 14.
They found a moderately strong link between higher drawing scores and the later intelligence test results.
The team, led by Dr Rosalind Arden, of King's College's Institute of Psychiatry, used a Draw-a-Child test devised in the 1920s to assess children's intelligence at the age of four.
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