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I believe it could be hard-coded just like the reason why I am not even 6 feet tall coding away my health while people like Shaq and Yao Ming make millions a ye
by codexon 15y ago
I believe it could be hard-coded just like the reason why I am not even 6 feet tall coding away my health while people like Shaq and Yao Ming make millions a year for being 7 feet tall.
Depressing? Yes. That's just the way life is.
What is even more depressing is that some people think you can will yourself to be smarter, and if you don't, you are just lazy.
- ern 15y agoI agree that there may be a concept of innate intelligence as you describe it. I have no idea if IQ is an effective measure of it. My uninformed lay-person's instinct is that IQ is correlated with intelligence (with this new evidence we can add the proviso: at the time that the test is taken). What this study seems to say is that IQ is more variable over time than first thought. Perhaps the variability over time is itself hard-coded. Regardless of the cause of this variability over time, I do hope that this study leads to more open-mindedness, and less labelling of kids based on early academic performance or single cognitive scores.