ILoveBlackAmericanWomen wrote:Rock wrote:ILoveBlackAmericanWomen wrote:
No one is born brilliant or stupid. Everyone is born unknowing of things until we are taught things. I'm saying any person who has trouble understanding math etc is capable of understanding what used to be difficult for them and raising their IQ. IQ's levels are not permanent. Anyone is capable of comprehending what they did not know at first and raising their IQ.
On what planet does it work that way? IQ is a measure of your capacity to learn. Studying math won't change your IQ materially. And you can be sure that a 7, 11, or 18 year old with a measured IQ of 150 will learn any maths that he is taught a lot faster and more effectively than a same aged one with an IQ score of just 90. Same goes for about anything else he is exposed to or taught.
Try teaching calculus to fresh HS grad with an IQ of 90 and see how much fun that is. Then try it with one who has a 150 IQ and watch him absorb all the concepts in days to weeks and end up mastering areas of it you can't comprehend yourself.
Everyone is capable of learning and understanding things that they previously did not have the slightest clue about which can raise the IQ. The HS grad with a 90 IQ...say the teacher talks to him bout calculus and is explaining everything right yet the student fails to get it. So the teacher ask "what can I do to help you understand calculus?" the student with the 90 IQ says I am a visual learner so the teacher now shows graphs,charts etc and the student has an epiphany and now comprehends calculus, studies frequently and eventually excels in it and other things. His IQ will no longer be 90. The IQ can change. Many factors affect IQ levels.
If a person with a 90 IQ made it his mission in life to grasp the standard principals of of a typical college freshman calculus course, he could probably achieve it eventually if he put enough work into it. Calculus is not a particularly difficult subject. The point is, it would take him a lot longer to do so than someone with an above average IQ.
IQ tests are generally do not put much emphasis on knowledge. They are timed and focus a lot more on a person's processing ability and speed - concept formulation, abstract reasoning, ST memory, information retrieval, pattern recognition, etc. So learning calculus, or algebra, or geometry, or political science, or any other subject is not going to change your score materially.
Perhaps with a tremendous amount of work and willpower, a person could increase his score slightly at the margins. Part of this might just be learning to take the test more effectively with practice as no test is perfect. But the improvement would be negligible, perhaps 2-3 points, not much help to someone who is just 85-90.
I know what I say above is not PC and I would never tell a kid something like, "hey yr. pretty stupid, get used to it cus you always will be so brace yourself for a tough life". But tht's pretty much the reality I believe.
But wait a minute. I'm catching myself here. Who ever said IQ and happiness are highly correlated? I just made that assumption above yet now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure I'm wrong. I know its possible to be highly intelligent and miserable with life. So perhaps its also just as possible to be deeply stupid yet very happy most of the time. So wouldn't it be better to fall into the latter case rather than the former???