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Originally Posted by Brutha  The article doesn't even use the word IQ. The didn't use IQ test.
If you look at the results of the world memory championships where people memorise a deck of cards in under a minute these day (and they leared to do that skill) it is pretty clear that you can significantly improve memory.
The question they tried to answer was whether you can train a mental ability X and improve other abilities Y through the training of X. |
I was so enraged by the title i didn't read the article, hehe. IQ test really get me going.
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Originally Posted by Brutha IQ test reward abstract thinking but don't reward creativity and thinking outside the box. |
and.. they don't reward abstract thinking, they're completely based on logical thought.
iq, and all other standardized tests, ask questions where you reply A, B, C, D, etc etc. If your answers are pre-selected for you by someone else, how does that encourage abstract thought at all? you're certainly not thinking for yourself, your options are right in front of you! all it does is encourage you to reply with what the writer of the test said was right...
...if you're asking me to think like the writer of the test, i'm not even thinking the way i choose to think, i'm thinking the way i'm expected to think! scary thought indeed!
anyway, i wont drag on too long, but take writing for example. writing is very abstract because... it is essentially your thoughts in pure form. every piece of writing, even if the topic is the same, will be different. if every one of them is different, you certainly can't compare them. even if you did, how would you compare them? based on your better judgement of what? what you personally believe good writing to be? and how did you determine what good writing is? from what someone else told you...? now you're expecting others to think like the person who told you how to think! even worse!
anyway, i'm done with my rant. do know though, abstract thinking cannot be measured accurately in any event. thus, it has nothing to do with IQ tests at all because what good would a standardized test be if it were innacurate? iq tests are OK (except their cultural bias) for measuring logic, but to call them an intelligence test... no way. abstract thinkers are just as likely to be brilliant as logical thinkers.