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Re:Schooling in adolescence raises IQ scores (2011) [pdf] by jgord on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:01PM (#13182032)
Maybe your actual IQ was varying, and the tests were accurate enough to show that ?

We should consider the real possibility that both a) IQ tests are a reasonably good proxy for general intelligence AND b) preparation by training on problem solving improves IQ

Id really like to know how much IQ is improvable. If the brain is plastic and physically adapts to training, what are the most effective methods? It seems an important issue, not least for schooling.

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Re:Schooling in adolescence raises IQ scores (2011) [pdf] by mcv on Thursday December 15, 2016 @04:39AM (#13183471)
Depends on what you mean by IQ. If IQ is simply the result from the test, then it's clearly varying. If you define IQ as some sort of intrinsic and mostly unchanging ability for intelligence, then IQ tests are clearly very imperfect.

Part of the problem is that there are too many slightly different definitions of IQ and intelligence, and what's worse: we're not even sure what exactly we mean by "intelligence".

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