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> ...you're going to come back with a much different understanding of Chinese culture and its people And of American culture and its people. You might re-evalu
by routerl 3y ago
> ...you're going to come back with a much different understanding of Chinese culture and its people
And of American culture and its people. You might re-evaluate some ideas you'd grown up with, becoming a more cosmopolitan/adaptable/understanding person, capable of having deeper relationships with a larger proportion of the Earth's population.
But it probably won't make you better at tests of cognitive capacity.
- lostmsu 3y agoI don't think you really have to learn the destination country's language for that. At least it is unclear that the lack of language would be any kind of major roadblock.
- mdp2021 3y ago> But it probably won't make you better at tests of cognitive capacity How do you test «cognitive capacity»? The other day on these pages a newcomer came and wrote he "distrusts them <category>". Some call ignorance relevant to "cognitive capacity". (Some call it "much more than just relevant".)
- isaacfrond 3y agoIt's in the paper. You present a battery of tasks, and see how well you do. In this case, twelve cognitive tests were included: Double Trouble Spatial Planning Odd One Out Grammatical Reasoning Feature Match Polygons Digit Span Rotations Token Search Paired Associates Spatial Span Monkey Ladder
- VLM 3y ago> It's in the paper. Most of us don't have access to the paper, although our tax dollars surely paid for it.
- InfamousRece 3y agoMost of us use scihub to retrieve papers.
- michaelt 3y agoPresumably they mean 'g factor' [1] Although somewhat ironically, the person who proposed 'g factor' was specifically reporting correlations between student performance in latin, french, english, maths and music. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)