It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

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