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The problem with measuring IQ is that you don’t want to measure education or culture. Math, history even reading comprehension are all affected by that. IQ te
by wodenokoto 5y ago
The problem with measuring IQ is that you don’t want to measure education or culture.
Math, history even reading comprehension are all affected by that.
IQ testing has sort of settled on pattern matching as a measure of IQ that isn’t correlated with your education or culture you grew up in.
Personally I still don’t believe you can’t train for an IQ test.
- Enginerrrd 5y agoOh you absolutely can train for an IQ test. It's not just pattern matching but also measures one's ability to abstract, and working memory and stuff. The question is to what degree would IQ-test-specific training help you? I'd guess that it would, and it would be measurable and statistically significant, but not that impressive.
- sitkack 5y agoMost of the questions were a progression in a sequence and/or set membership under some operation. Anyone who plays Sudoku, Chess or enjoys abstract algebra would have had an advantage.
- akvadrako 5y agoOnly if those skills were generally transferable. Sure you can get better at Chess, but that won't help at all at making you a strong Go player.