Bryan Roche: Your level of intelligence is not fixed for life

[LuckyTheDog]

Those who hang dearly onto the notion that IQ is fixed for life have managed to ignore decades of published research in the field of applied behavior analysis. This has reported very large IQ gains in children with autism who have been exposed to early intensive behavioral interventions once they have been diagnosed with learning difficulties.

Another 2009 Norwegian study examined the effects of an increase in the duration of compulsory schooling in Norway in the 1960s which lengthened the time in education for Norwegians by two years. The researchers used records of cognitive ability taken by the military to calculate the IQ of each individual in the study. They found that IQ had increased by 3.7 points for every extra year of education received.

More recent studies by John Jonides and his colleagues at the University of Michigan reported improvements in objective measures of intelligence for those who practiced a brain-training task called the “n-back task” – a kind of computerized memory test.


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[pansypoo53219]

1. my great-aunt never went to high school, but she was sharp as a tack.

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high school back then was COLLEGE. we need to make college the new FREE high school for state schools, PERIOD. shit. found a large set of books for kids called the book of knowledge. it a thing on democritus, ancient smarty pants. teevee is making us stupid.
i was glad he was mentioned in cosmos.