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A new study suggests that the ability of IQ tests to predict your future — in areas such as job success, education and any brushes with the law — has a lot to do with how motivated you are when you take the test. 一项新的研究表明，IQ测试的预测未来能力——在事业成功，教育和跟法律接触这些方面——跟你测试时的积极性有关。 In other words, an IQ test may provide good insight into a test-taker’s life, “but it might not predict it for the reason you think,” explained study author Angela Lee Duckworth, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. 换句话说，一个IQ测试可以对测试者的生活有很好的了解，“但是它不能预测你所认为的原因。”美国宾夕法尼亚大学副教授，该项研究作者Angela Lee Duckworth说。 Intelligence quotient (IQ) tests are valued in part because researchers have linked scores to success or failure later in life. “It predicts how long you’ll live, whether you’ll stay married, your grade point average,” Duckworth noted. IQ测试从某种程度上是有用的，因为研究人员把分数跟后来生活的成功与否联系起来。“它预测你的寿命有多长，你是否能维持你的婚姻，你的平均成绩。”Duckworth指出。 On top of that, IQ tests seem to measure not only intelligence but the ability to become smarter. 另外，IQ测试不仅测试智力，还测试你变得更聪明的能力。 | 
