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If anything, top level chess players are likely to have missed some non-chess education when they were young due to being a chess prodigy, which would contribut
by mantap 6y ago
If anything, top level chess players are likely to have missed some non-chess education when they were young due to being a chess prodigy, which would contribute to a lower IQ in adulthood.
- edanm 6y agoI'm pretty sure IQ tests aren't supposed to work that way. At least theoretically, they're measuring intelligence, not education.
- gameswithgo 6y agothat is the goal but at the extremes i imagine it fails. imagine you are a chess prodigy that was homeschooled and never had a sit down exam before. don’t know if hikaru fits the description.
- IggleSniggle 6y ago1) They are a measure of a very specific kind of intelligence: the kind of intelligence required to score high on IQ tests. I score pretty high on IQ tests but I can say without a shadow of a doubt that my intelligence in other areas is, at least as it appears to me, below average. 2) intelligence does have some elasticity. When you think of intelligence has a culmination of pathways/heuristics/low-level-techniques, it’s easy to see how many pathways are self-reinforcing and not easily taught or measured. You can be predisposed to a particular kind of intelligence, and not everything is attainable by everyone, but what we call intelligence is close to what we call talent: seems like an innate quality, but actually reflects long-term hard practice with countless hours dedicated.
- mantap 6y agoIntelligence is a complex interplay of nature and nurture. There is no way to test only the "nature" component, it's akin to unmixing a pot of purple paint to extract the red and blue. A lot of IQ test questions get easier the more mathematics you have studied.
- na85 6y agoIQ tests just measure your ability to complete IQ tests.