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Does reading make you smart? Or is being smart a requisite to enjoy reading?

Can a below average person become the tiniest bit smarter by reading lots of books thus expanding and multiplying their neural network?

Can a seemingly above average person be rendered dull and simple by not exercising their brain?

>> No.10636854

>>10636710
Complex books yes, airport novels/YA no.

>> No.10636868

>>10636710
Doesn't make morons smarter. An idiot can read the finest literature and have no more effect than a jumble of words gliding across their field of vision.

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>> No.10636996

>>10636868
But could an idiot be taught, through simple and progressively more complex literature, to be smart?

>> No.10637031

>>10636996
I don’t think it’s possible. But I also think if you are concerned on not being ‘smart’ then you are probably smart enough

>> No.10637038

>>10636868
this isn't necessarily true, if the idiot is 15 and reads voraciously, at a high level, learns new words, expands lexicon, becomes more logical in their thinking, breaks into phil and then logic, math etc they can boost iq considerably. Probably at least 5 points if not upwards of 10 points, .5 SD's isn't a bad outcome for a lesser human. This applies to whites though, please don't think you can make niggers intelligent. If they're born intelligent then that's fine, but the vast majority are so stupid and compulsive it wouldn't matter how many classics or phil texts you bombarded them with and forced them to read. Writing, debating, discussing, hearing lectures and experiencing art in tandem with prolific reading would help as well. While there is strong evidence as of now that IQ is absolutely fixed around ~21, I think, with some reason in regards to neuroplasticity, you can abuse that age range of 10-21 where the brain will still make new connections and restructure itself to a more complex architecture which would support higher levels of abstraction.