Increasing IQ Is Trivial (opens in new tab)

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1 pointsgeorge3d62y ago9 comments

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IQ is silly, might as well be astrology for men.

For those looking for more than a pithy comment, check out the book "The Bell Curve Debate". IQ was a retrofit system intended to be a "predictor of many personal outcomes, including financial income, job performance, birth out of wedlock, and involvement in crime".

zero-sharp2y ago

Oh okay. Look forward to seeing you test at 200 then.

serengetti2y ago

judging by the article, he'll be selling perpetual motion devices and cancer cure in the next 3-6 months.

zero-sharp2y ago

I mean, it's not that I doubt increases in IQ are possible. Let's be generous. Now what? To what extent can IQ change? Can I increase it without bound? To what extent are the changes permanent? To what extent are they reproducible? Can we train a person who might count as mentally disabled to score significantly higher on the test? If not, why not? Has the author tried? Does the author think nobody else has studied this? If the results aren't reproducible, then what are we to gain from this?

If you want to speak on scientific matters, you should probably do science.

serengetti2y ago

the author only provides vague statements such as "it was a pleasant experience" or "slightly reduced exercise", and ends it with "read about this topic". so there's no question of reproducibility since there is no method to reproduce.

this is the equivalent of a scientist submitting a paper for publication with one sentence in Materials & Methods section: "we will let the readers infer the exact steps based on our conclusions"

serengetti2y ago

entire article: "it's trivial to do, anybody can do it, look we did it for other things. it only cost me 400$"

HOW? "trust me bro"

george3d6OP2y ago

Did add a quick explanation about methods at the end ... I forgot that when I say "you can read the science around this topic to see how" and provide some links to examples of papers, people don't actually do it.

serengetti2y ago

using that same logic I can say "I cured my pancreatic cancer, read the science around this topic to see how"

george3d6OP2y ago

it's more like, in a world with thousands of oncologists that treat pancreatitis cancer, saying: You should go to one, I'm not going to recommended mine in particular, but I went to one and she cured my cancer, so maybe you should give it a shot.

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GaryNumanVevo2y ago

IQ is silly, might as well be astrology for men.

zero-sharp2y ago

Oh okay. Look forward to seeing you test at 200 then.

serengetti2y ago

judging by the article, he'll be selling perpetual motion devices and cancer cure in the next 3-6 months.

zero-sharp2y ago

If you want to speak on scientific matters, you should probably do science.

serengetti2y ago

this is the equivalent of a scientist submitting a paper for publication with one sentence in Materials & Methods section: "we will let the readers infer the exact steps based on our conclusions"

serengetti2y ago

entire article: "it's trivial to do, anybody can do it, look we did it for other things. it only cost me 400$"

HOW? "trust me bro"

george3d6OP2y ago

serengetti2y ago

using that same logic I can say "I cured my pancreatic cancer, read the science around this topic to see how"

george3d6OP2y ago

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