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Want to Raise Your IQ? Neuroscience Says to Take Up This Easy Habit
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- Gys 10y agotl;dr Learn to play a musical instrument
- theoneone 10y agoI think a TL;dr tooltip should be included in every HN title. Saves us a click!
- edmanet 10y agoClick bait.
- jerf 10y agoHey, as long as we're sharing click bait, I have to share one of the funniest spam email titles I've seen in a long time, which happens to be on the topic of IQ: "Harvard Study shows 'Smart Drug' proven to double IQ". Yes. Double. Let us not accuse this spammer of dreaming small!
- vixen99 10y agoThe only mention of IQ in the original article by Lutz Jäncke ("Music drives brain plasticity") is a reference to another study " Glenn Schellenberg [37] uncovered a greater IQ increase in children enrolled in music classes compared with well-matched children who received no musical lessons". However it's hardly news that popular articles exaggerate findings in journals.
- cphuntington97 10y agoAnd here I'm the weirdo thinking that music has intrinsic value. "Practice kissing! It exercises your mouth muscles so that you can eat soup better!"
- jchrisa 10y agoYou win the internet today! Too bad you'll be down voted by the type of people who think the value of a college degree is primarily based on its impact on future earnings.
- WalterSear 10y ago'Easy'
- k__ 10y agoI met a few people who studied music (different instruments or theory) and later switched to a career in programming. They said the whole theory stuff felt a bit like a different approach (notation etc) to math.