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Surprising today, or 100 years ago when people thought IQ tests measured some immutable property of the human brain :) today of course we know it's possible to
by kingkilr 16y ago
Surprising today, or 100 years ago when people thought IQ tests measured some immutable property of the human brain :) today of course we know it's possible to change your IQ in all sorts of ways.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoApart from underfeeding children or hitting people on the head, I'm not aware of any ways to significantly change IQ. Could you elaborate?
- thesz 16y agoSpatial navigation and logical reasoning improved by higher levels of testosterone, for example.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoI don't understand - injecting a person with testosterone increases their logical reasoning ability? I hate to be that guy, but [citation needed].
- thesz 16y agohttp://books.google.com/books?id=IHGdmrKlVl0C&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=testosterone++%22logical+reasoning%22&source=bl&ots=Gv8nl0Iba6&sig=n-3q-R7Eso-Nv7XxaDQIlgHWmvY&hl=en&ei=SJO5TbPjOMrZsga24sDrAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=testosterone%20%20%22logical%20reasoning%22&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=IHGdmrKlVl0C&pg=PA57... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3067252 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3067252 This relates to women, but this applicable to mens too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypogonadism#In_men http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypogonadism#In_men Difficulty concentrating Memory Loss-difficulty in choosing words in language
- tomlin 16y agoHow about a caffeinated coffee? Or a poor sleep?
- tokenadult 16y agoIndeed. http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/520.html http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/520.html http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=raise+IQ&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=1986&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdtf=&as_sdts=24&hl=en http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=raise+IQ&as_epq=&...