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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by moosey on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:34PM (#21734195)
The next question is how do we build as many people with traits like this as possible, and I assume it to be high quality education with a low stress home life. This is something that the US economy is not currently achieving, based on happiness and education metrics.

What should not be learned from this is that there are high caliber people, but instead that these traits call be learned, and I'm certain that there are schools teaching them, but I assume that those are quite foolishly only offered to specific subsets of people here, and that we will see further advancement in other societies as they find solutions to that exact problem by advancing educational practice through scientific experimentation on a national scale.

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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by james_s_tayler on Sunday December 08, 2019 @02:49AM (#21734806)
The real question is how can we take something that meets all the conditions necessary to satisfy the central limit theorem but that doesn't result in a normal distribution?

If you can solve that you can have your nation of smart people.

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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by lopmotr on Saturday December 07, 2019 @11:24PM (#21734321)
There absolutely are high caliber people. We know that IQ is the most powerful predictor of success and that you can't train it into people by any known means so it would be a waste to treat everyone like these geniuses.
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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by alasdair_ on Sunday December 08, 2019 @12:14AM (#21734445)
>We know that IQ is the most powerful predictor of success and that you can't train it into people by any known means

One very simple way of increasing IQ is to repeatedly take IQ tests. There is a noticeable uptick in recorded score for people who take the same type of test the second time within a twelve month period.

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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by emmelaich on Sunday December 08, 2019 @12:51AM (#21734536)
That suggests a method for finding the "true" IQ; keep taking the same kind of tests until your score plateaus.
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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by moosey on Sunday December 08, 2019 @08:52PM (#21739839)
In order to understand my position on "IQ", you should read the book "Hacking Darwin", which actually covers the question of what IQ is at length. I hope that it alters your position on IQ a little bit, what aspects of it are hereditary, and how the nature of life can alter it.
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