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Re:Why isn’t there a glut of good software engineers? by xSwag on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @02:13PM (#5639736)
>We can teach coding to young people, but as of now we can't reliably increase IQ.

IQ is relative. If everybody's intelligence went up 10 points, they would all still have the same IQ

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Re:Why isn’t there a glut of good software engineers? by willholloway on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @02:32PM (#5639885)
Yes, I am using IQ as stand in for an unchanging benchmark of cognitive ability, which it is not. Perhaps it would be better to say the world needs an increase in human crystallized and fluid intelligence.
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