Re:Astonishing regularity in learning rate among college stu...
by lern_too_spel on Monday February 06, 2023 @02:21PM
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> Contribution of education to this 15 points might be just few points.
It certainly isn't genetics. You're not going to cause a population-wide one sigma increase within a single generation using any genetic mechanism.
> It's not about IQ, also, was it ever replicated?
Yes, this has been replicated repeatedly. As far as IQ, if you apply for a private school that uses IQ tests for admission, you will find that all of them explicitly forbid test coaching because it is well known that it works. Even a video will cause large gains. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
It certainly isn't genetics. You're not going to cause a population-wide one sigma increase within a single generation using any genetic mechanism.
> It's not about IQ, also, was it ever replicated?
Yes, this has been replicated repeatedly. As far as IQ, if you apply for a private school that uses IQ tests for admission, you will find that all of them explicitly forbid test coaching because it is well known that it works. Even a video will cause large gains. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...