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I think we are saying the same thing: based on IQ tests my father, on average, could easily beat people on their 20s and this is not related to any advanced mat
by wslh 3y ago
I think we are saying the same thing: based on IQ tests my father, on average, could easily beat people on their 20s and this is not related to any advanced math or language education. He has a better education and, probably, better epoch for learning than, in average, young people now.
I don't want to focus on his math mental skills but his overall education was better. He can also beat people in language/words associations.
- rsynnott 3y ago> I don't want to focus on his math mental skills but his overall education was better. He can also beat people in language/words associations. Well, _different_, possibly. Neither word associations nor mental arithmetic are the be-all-and-end-all; mental arithmetic in particular has been more a party trick than anything else since the advent of the pocket calculator.
- wslh 3y agoYou cannot use pocket calculators in IQ tests though.
- eru 3y agoDepends entirely on your IQ test.
- rsynnott 3y agoI mean, sure, but the purpose of education is not to train people to be good at IQ tests.
- wslh 3y agoIndeed, based on current scientific studies, you cannot greatly modify your IQ. I will not talk here about spaced repetition.
- eru 3y agoIt's trivial to modify your IQ. Keep bonking your head hard or drinking too much or sleeping too little, and your IQ is sure to go down. What's hard is not _modifying_ your IQ, but increasing it.