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Re:Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54k y... by AvocadoPanic on Thursday February 10, 2022 @05:24PM (#30293562)
Do you have evidence for statisticly significant increases in IQ that persist into adulthood as a result of education?

Success in education is correlated with high IQ. Much the same way high IQ is correlated with many forms of success.

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Re:Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54k y... by astrange on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:11PM (#30294130)
Education does actually raise IQ.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29911926/

…Whatever that means. It's meaningless to say fluid intelligence can't be improved with education, that's a tautology.

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Re:Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54k y... by AvocadoPanic on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:14PM (#30306458)
... we did not identify any studies that tested whether these effects persisted into adulthood. These estimates should thus be regarded with caution.
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