Drawings by Children More Than Piece of Art

Children’s drawings are ‘an indicator of intelligence years later’. A research team, led by Dr Rosalind Arden of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, the UK, has published its findings in the journal Psychological Science. For the study, Arden and colleagues assessed 7,752 pairs of identical and non-identical twins (15,504 children in total) who were a part of the Twins Early Development Study. The children were also required to complete intelligence tests at the age of four and again at the age of 14.