Even for 'normal' babies, the 'relative intelligence' with respect to their age seems to be higher than that for adults, http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080331/full/news.2008.713.html "Babies have an eye for statistics"
'The authors suggest that an infant's statistical intuition resembles that of a scientist, supporting a proposition made by some cognitive scientists that "children are scientists".'
"The question that remains, says Bonatti, is how these reasoning abilities develop from infancy to a adulthood: sometimes culminating in not-very-rational adults."
Even for 'normal' babies, the 'relative intelligence' with respect to their age seems to be higher than that for adults,
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"Babies have an eye for statistics"
'The authors suggest that an infant's statistical intuition resembles
that of a scientist, supporting a proposition made by some cognitive
scientists that "children are scientists".'
"The question that remains, says Bonatti, is how these reasoning
abilities develop from infancy to a adulthood: sometimes culminating in
not-very-rational adults."