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I thought IQ was more inherent? Why would missing a year of school make you dumber or smarter? My school when I was growing up tracked you based on an IQ test
by Spooky23 4y ago
I thought IQ was more inherent? Why would missing a year of school make you dumber or smarter?
My school when I was growing up tracked you based on an IQ test at age 4. How does that type of test vary as you age?
- fao_ 4y agoIt's a little known fact among the MENSA populace that IQ varies across your lifetime, too. Friend of a friend did IQ testing 4 times. First time failed, second time succeeded, third time failed, fourth time succeeded...
- ekianjo 4y agoBecause IQ tests don't really measure anything reliable?
- serf 4y agoI feel like that's a stronger indicator in test inconsistency rather than anything about the mysterious quality that they are attempting to measure. Similarly I have always felt that it's strange that SATs get changed periodically but then compared en masse across generations routinely, makes little sense to me.
- Avshalom 4y agoautumn 2020 wouldn't even have been a year of missed school.
- netsharc 4y agoWithout reading the article nor being an expert in intelligence (but hey, I'm a certified HN commenter), probably the reduced stimulation (reduced interaction with friends and the wider world outside the home) is what was detrimental to intelligence development. To use an extreme comparison, children who were locked up in basements also come out being less mentally capable than their peers.