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Re:Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows diff... by wslh on Thursday May 02, 2024 @07:02AM (#40234772)
I think we are saying the same thing: based on IQ tests my father, on average, could easily beat people on their 20s and this is not related to any advanced math or language education. He has a better education and, probably, better epoch for learning than, in average, young people now.

I don't want to focus on his math mental skills but his overall education was better. He can also beat people in language/words associations.

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Re:Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows diff... by rsynnott on Thursday May 02, 2024 @07:28AM (#40234906)
> I don't want to focus on his math mental skills but his overall education was better. He can also beat people in language/words associations.

Well, _different_, possibly. Neither word associations nor mental arithmetic are the be-all-and-end-all; mental arithmetic in particular has been more a party trick than anything else since the advent of the pocket calculator.

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Re:Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows diff... by wslh on Thursday May 02, 2024 @07:33AM (#40234938)
You cannot use pocket calculators in IQ tests though.
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Re:Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows diff... by rsynnott on Thursday May 02, 2024 @08:09AM (#40235210)
I mean, sure, but the purpose of education is not to train people to be good at IQ tests.
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Re:Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows diff... by wslh on Thursday May 02, 2024 @11:10AM (#40237199)
Indeed, based on current scientific studies, you cannot greatly modify your IQ. I will not talk here about spaced repetition.
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Re:Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows diff... by eru on Thursday May 02, 2024 @08:49PM (#40242900)
It's trivial to modify your IQ. Keep bonking your head hard or drinking too much or sleeping too little, and your IQ is sure to go down.

What's hard is not _modifying_ your IQ, but increasing it.

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Re:Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows diff... by eru on Thursday May 02, 2024 @10:55PM (#40243548)
Depends entirely on your IQ test.
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