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- 5 days
Yes. IQ tests can be studied and your score can be increased like any other test. This is because IQ doesn’t measure intelligence, it measures IQ score.
If your asking about intelligence, then also yes. You can study and become smarter and more knowledgeable. Or you can hit your head or read the Daily Wire and become less intelligent.
- BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish4 days
In fact, there are some “child prodigies” out there who are simply drilled from a young age to pass specific intelligence tests. If you’re an overbearing parent desperate to live vicariously through your children, you can turn a fairly normal child into a “child prodigy.” It only costs you a lot of time and money and it only costs your child their childhood.
- ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish5 days
IQ is not a thing you have, it’s merely a test score, useful only in comparing relative intelligences on a mass scale.
Take the test on a different day, or sleep more beforehand, or do a different test, and your IQ will change.
- Capable_Coping@piefed.socialEnglish4 days
IQ is not useful as a measure of intelligence, even on a mass scale. It is fundamentally bullshit
IQ as a concept was invented by a white supremacist Eugenicist, and hasn’t improved much in the years since.
It doesn’t measure Intelligence. It measures your socioeconomic status in the country the test you’re taking was made in and your engagement of academia..
So yes, you can improve your IQ. Study harder, eat better, go to better schools, and have more money. Also it really helps if you and the test giver are both white males.
- 5 days
I understand, but why am I downvoted? I was just asking a question.
- 5 days
Absolutely, with more education people on average score higher on IQ tests.
However AFAIK evidence shows that training specifically for higher scores on IQ tests does not significantly increase general intelligence. - Elting@piefed.socialEnglish5 days
IQ is meaningless on an individual level. It is really only effective at measuring something in large groups of people. You can do a lot to improve your reasoning and the brain is a muscle that responds well to being trained however.
4 daysAbsolutely! Alcohol, heavy drugs or a brick to the head can all change your IQ.
- jet@hackertalks.comEnglish5 days
To a certain extent yes, if you’re lacking proper nutrition, not getting enough sleep, sleep apnea, stressed, i.e. if you have something that’s impeding your intelligence you have room to improve.
I.E. studies of economic vegetarian children showed tremendous cognitive improvements when supplemented with one egg a day. They lacked proper nutrition
The impact on a fully developed adult brain could be just as impactful depending on the problem, but probably would be more subtle
- 5 days
You can definitely educate yourself where you might score higher on a standard test because the concepts presented aren’t as seeming obscure, but IQ is supposed to be a measure of underlying thinking I’m not sure that improves over a lifetime.
- 5 days
Depends. You can get smarter. You can take the test again and get a better score. You could take a different test and get a different score.
All technically “change your IQ,” but if you’re asking if there’s a concrete way to record if you’ve “leveled up” in intelligence? Nope.
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