Editorial principles

Our articles explain research on intelligence, memory and reasoning. This page describes how they are made, so you can judge them for yourself.

How an article is made

1. Choosing topics. We pick topics from research on intelligence, memory and reasoning, and from readers’ questions, and favour high-quality sources such as peer-reviewed studies and meta-analyses. If we have already covered a topic, we update the existing article instead of writing a new one.
2. Planning. Each topic gets a short brief: the question the article answers and the studies it will rely on.
3. Reading the original. An AI research assistant reads the original study – not just news coverage of it – and writes a research note: the question, the method, the sample size, the main finding, the limitations, and a link to the source for every point.
4. Writing. The draft is written from that research note only.
5. Independent check. A separate checking step, which sees the draft for the first time, compares every number and every factual claim with the research note and the source. Drafts with unsupported claims, exaggerated conclusions or anything resembling medical advice are sent back.
6. Nine languages. The approved English text is adapted into the other eight languages, with examples changed where it helps, and each adaptation’s numbers and key claims are checked against the original.
7. Publication. An article is published only when it passes every check. Anything a check flags waits for an editor, who approves, corrects or discards it. Editors also read published articles regularly, and an article says “Reviewed by” with a date only when a person has reviewed that version.

Our rules

• No claim without a source. Every article ends with a list of the sources it relies on.
• Our own words. We quote a source at most once per article, briefly and in quotation marks.
• No certainty we do not have. We write “this study observed” rather than “science has proven”, and we do not present a correlation as a cause.
• No medical or psychological advice. Topics such as ADHD or dementia appear only in a research context, with a note to speak to a professional.
• No invented people. We do not use fake experts, quotes or statistics. Articles are signed by the “IQ Arion Editorial Team”.
• Transparency about AI. Every article states that it was researched and drafted with AI assistance and checked against its sources, and says when an editor reviewed it.
• Independence. We do not publish sponsored articles. Articles may invite you to try our own short test; they never recommend paid products from others.

Corrections and updates

If we get something wrong, we fix it and note the correction and its date at the end of the article. When new research changes the picture, we update the article and its “updated” date.

Spotted an error? Please tell us at hello@iqarion.com.