Italianman wrote: ↑August 9th, 2021, 3:40 pm
Lol, you're stupid. IQ tests assess academic abilities, e.g. Fluid Reasoning, Knowledge, Quantitative Reasoning, Visual-Spatial Processing, and Working Memory are all examples of cognitive abilities. These abilities are referred to together as symbolic logic. These are all abilities you can increase with training or education. IQ problems are "clearly defined, come with all the information needed to solve them, have only a single right answer, which can be reached by only a single method," whereas practical problems require problem recognition and formulation, information seeking, a variety of acceptable solutions, are embedded in and require prior everyday experience, and require motivation and personal involvement. IQ tests do not assess any kind of fixed, innate intelligence. A difference of 10 to 15 points between individuals is virtually indistinguishable and reveals little about an individual's potential for future growth. Language and a person's ability to define words, recognize facts about the world, and discern links (and differences) among verbal concepts are significantly weighted in IQ tests. The tasks in the IQ test are decidedly tiny, often unrelated to one another, and, in many cases, far removed from normal life.
In other words, IQ tests are essentially puzzles that only work for assessing persons who have been exposed to the puzzles they test for... turns out it's a western culture test, and those cultural puzzles have gradually been taught to more of the world to raise IQ results. There is plenty of evidence, for example, that schooling raises overall academic intelligence. I am very confident that a person with minor mental problems may get a high "IQ" given enough time and training frequency. The issue would almost certainly be training motivation.
The happy reality is that IQ scores:
A) measure developed skills rather than natural intellect.
B) is subject to significant changes.
C) don't say anything about a person's intellectual limits.
A well-known study published in the journal Nature revealed brain changes following various educational regimens. Scientists tested the memory, visual, and spatial information processing of 79 male trainee Tokyo taxi drivers and used MRI to examine their brains at the start of their training routine. There was no difference in their brain structure or memory at the start of the trial. However, three to four years later, investigators discovered a significant increase in grey matter in the posterior hippocampi of the 39 trainee that served as taxi drivers. Naturally, non-taxi drivers did not experience this shift.
The synaptic connections in your brain restructure themselves and devote a larger part of themselves to a specific way of thought. It’s how everything works. They’ve raised an animal so that it could only see horizontal lines; when it was introduced to vertical ones, it couldn’t see them. The part of your brain that “SEES,” is used for the sense of “touch” in a blind person. They blind folded a non-blind person to prove this – after a week, that part of her brain, which was active during sight, was being restructured and was observed to be more active during touch. As a result, logical abstract cognition should work in the same way. My personal experience indicates that it does. A few of my girls are not math people at all, and when they have to think about geometry or algebra, they cringe. However, with a certain amount of study on the subject, it becomes easy for them.
Now shut the f**k up you dumb motherfucka before I have to shit on you all over again.
~PhD/MD