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He addresses this: "New methods like dual n-back or nootropics are ... years later discovered to ... be tantamount to training on IQ tests themselves"
by hotpockets 13y ago
He addresses this:
"New methods like dual n-back or nootropics are ... years later discovered to ... be tantamount to training on IQ tests themselves"
- acjohnson55 13y agoBut if IQ tests are trainable, what are they actually measuring?
- mikeash 13y agoIf bench presses are trainable, what are they actually measuring?
- demallien 13y agoBench presses are measuring your ability to bench press. Iq tests are measuring your ability to do IQ tests (and not your IQ) Edit: just to clarify, the fact that you can train to improve an IQ score means that it is not a very good measure of innate ability. You can't really talk about "having an IQ", all you can say is that you got 130 on your last IQ test, a bit like how you might tell someone what you got for your SATs.
- mikeash 13y agoHow else is IQ defined?
- vinceguidry 13y agoYou'd first have to define intelligence.
- mikeash 13y agoWhy not define it as something that one can train? That certainly matches my intuitive notion of "intelligence".
- vinceguidry 13y agoYour intuitive notion of intelligence is "something one can train"? So then muscular strength is intelligence?