[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]

2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

File: 39 KB, 907x338, fitlit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Sun Nov 20 11:35:10 2022 No.21280775 [Reply] [Original]

Does reading make you smarter?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 11:48:42 2022 No.21280804 >>21280775 lil bit

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 11:53:16 2022 No.21280810 Nope. It doesn't increase IQ. Proper sleep, nutrition and anareboic exercise is more effective.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 12:03:19 2022 No.21280826 File: 100 KB, 1651x1227, 1650194707025.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21280775 I don't want to bulk my mind, I just want to tone it. Any recs for an ottermode mindset?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 12:06:58 2022 No.21280832 >>21280775 Not really

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 12:08:37 2022 No.21280836 File: 334 KB, 1081x1079, 1657858048425.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21280826

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 12:12:10 2022 No.21280847 no its just a means of entertainment like anything else.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 12:19:11 2022 No.21280860 >>21280836 I see a distinguished lolicon has decided to grace us with his presence

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 12:20:29 2022 No.21280864 >>21280860 Alice fans aren't all pedos they're just a vocal majority.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 13:19:17 2022 No.21280974 >>21280864 What's wrong with Alice in Wonderland fans? Can people here really not enjoy the story without lusting after the titular little girl? Or is this a reference to some kind of scandal of the author?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 13:22:42 2022 No.21280976 >>21280974 Both

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 13:26:46 2022 No.21280983 >>21280775 Reading makes you dumber having talked to bookreaders

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 13:38:52 2022 No.21281007 >>21280775 No /next question

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 22:10:18 2022 No.21282528 Bump

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 22:16:56 2022 No.21282552 >>21280775 It won't make you dumber.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 22:22:58 2022 No.21282567 teaches you words and works on your ability to focus. wouldn't say that makes you smart though

Anonymous Sun Nov 20 22:24:49 2022 No.21282573

>>21280775
Makes smart people even more smarter
Makes medium people smarter by a bit
Has no effect on dumb people
So it's actually a good filter for your intelligence. It's very good for smart people to read because they will become geniuses through it. Medium intelligence people benefit but only a little bit, better than nothing. And idiots just stay idiots. Sad to be an idiot but it's true.

Anonymous Sun Nov 20 22:36:12 2022 No.21282600

>>21280983
But how do you know them reading has caused the dumbness? Even if you have had a representative cross section of the reading population such that the mean smartness of that sample is similar to the mean smartness of the population, which is already quite a stretch, that would only be enough to prove a negative correlation between book reading and smartness. This correlation does not necessarily prove that reading books causes dumbness. For example, the causation could be reversed and being dumber could cause you to read more books. Or there could be another variable which causes both dumbness and book reading, like the environment one was raised in decreasing intelligence and encouraging book reading

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 00:01:24 2022 No.21282847 File: 297 KB, 1200x800, 1667758421833435.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21280775 I miss /fitlit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 00:16:29 2022 No.21282887 After achieving maximum patricianness I have become a cube and there is no visible distinction between my head and body. I occupy the maximum amount of space and mog fitlits wherever I go. Half-channel tards fear the cube.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 00:30:28 2022 No.21282927 >>21282573 This is the answer. High IQs will have more useful information to form more connections.. medium IQs will form a moderate amount of new connections and low IQs will just be reading words while forming no new connections.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 03:08:48 2022 No.21283316 >>21280775 Maybe if all you read college textbooks all the time. No ones getting smarter from reading fiction though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 03:11:29 2022 No.21283323 >>21280775 Probably

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 03:38:41 2022 No.21283386 >>21280775 Reading has zero effect on your intelligence, it cannot make you smarter or dumber - such effects of constitution are the moon's doing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 14:22:54 2022 No.21284695 >>21280804 this

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 14:24:29 2022 No.21284700 >>21280775 If anything it’s made me realise that I know nothing

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 14:31:35 2022 No.21284725

>>21280775
Depends on what you mean by smart
Reading makes you think about things that you usually would never think about, it broadens your understanding of the world around you and how to approach it, it keeps your mind active and help you bring your ideas into words
A dumb person can read a bunch but all he can is just repeat what he has read, with no real reflection or a ability to create something new
A smart person who doesnt read wont reach his full potential. It is also important to keep your mind active, to keep it plastic, thats why doctors always recommend playing sudoku to old people

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 18:14:10 2022 No.21285443 >>21280775 Reading doesn't make you smartar. It makes your more knowledgeable. It's not the same.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 18:33:29 2022 No.21285497 >>21280775 You got it backwards. Smart people read, they didn't become smart by reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 18:34:06 2022 No.21285499 >>21280775 Yes.

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 18:37:04 2022 No.21285509

>>21285443
>It makes your more knowledgeable.
What "reading" means in practice to 95% of people is consuming meaningless entertainment slop. Almost nobody thinks "reading" means doing something scholarly like researching history or something scientific or whatever.
Normies have a weird incoherent mind that is like that of animals, they do not have a logical train of thought where A implies B. They are probably semi-aware that "reading" Harry Potter isn't this much of a big brain thing, and perhaps that buying books doesn't make you read them, but at the same time they pobably believe it unironically when they see a picture of a kid reading some adventure book with some caption that it expands your brain and makes you smart. Imagine thinking that reading a 15 million words furry porn fiction about pokemon on 3XA actually makes you more intelligent

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 18:43:04 2022 No.21285531 >>21280775 /fitlit/ was funny. /fit/ was so enthusiastic about it and /lit/ was all snobbish and irritated.

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 23:40:54 2022 No.21286465

>>21280775
Depends on what you read. If you read nothing but faggot story telling with no real lesson then a little bit, with regards to philosophy then yes. Anything practical or theoretical (with possible real application) then it definitely makes you smarter, but at that point you're walking into schizo /sci/ territory.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 23:47:07 2022 No.21286486 File: 394 KB, 743x715, 1663049178285893.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21280775 Reading made me realize how dumb I actually am

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 23:52:27 2022 No.21286496 Maybe.

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 00:22:29 2022 No.21286559

>>21280775
Depends on what you read. Will you get smarter by only readings tuff like Harry Potter or LOTR? Obviously not. Books like that aren't inherently bad, but they don't challenge you, they don't force you to think and increase your ability to do so. Reading is like exercising, you only make progress when you force yourself to do what's difficult.

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 01:14:57 2022 No.21286668
File: 433 KB, 707x534, EE7kCVdXUAMn8ld.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>21286559
Wouldnt reading fantasy novels force you to use your Imagination and therefore challenge your brain? The effect would obviously not be the same with say Scientific books but it would defenetly train parts of your brain.

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 01:23:04 2022 No.21286681

>>21280775
Literally nothing can make you smarter, just like nothing can make your penis bigger. No drug, no surgery, nothing.

Just accept reality and stop with the copes. You're born basically destined to be what you end up being.

Genes account for at least 80% of differences in IQ, not 50% (like people used to push for).

Furthermore, that 20% that is environment - is also completely chosen from the birth lottery of where you were born, and is basically done with once you're done puberty.

The only direction you can alter your IQ is the negative direction - through brain damage or misuse. Nothing can increase it beyond its natural limit.

Read because you like to read. Don't read because you think you'll be a sigma male pee pee poo poo genius brain.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 01:28:41 2022 No.21286693 >>21286681 Wrong

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 01:29:45 2022 No.21286698 File: 173 KB, 495x495, 1650144420794.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21286465 >>21286559 this >>21286668 >muh imagination brainlet cope for non-self improving readers >>21286681 >crab mentality kys

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 01:40:57 2022 No.21286721 File: 746 KB, 658x1172, you will never be this happy.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21286486 >Reading made me realize how dumb I actually am Don't worry. Be happy!

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 01:55:33 2022 No.21286756 >>21280775 >Kant/Hegel - 4 plate squat >Aristotle/Descartes - 3 plate bench >Plato/Locke/Hobbes - 2 plate OHP press >Peterson/Nietzche - 1 plate rows. SS for beginning il/lit/erates.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 04:18:40 2022 No.21287077 >>21286756 >1 plate rows

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 05:57:07 2022 No.21287275 File: 8 KB, 442x500, 1529102002295.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21286756 >Peterson

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 06:35:12 2022 No.21287386 >>21280775 Nope. It doesn't increase IQ. Proper sleep, nutrition and anareboic exercise is more effective.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 06:49:20 2022 No.21287412 >>21286486 Recognition of ignorance can be the first step in the rectification of that condition. You’ll make it anon, I believe in you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 13:32:20 2022 No.21288204 >>21282887 mild kek

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 13:38:58 2022 No.21288220 >>21280775 It can give you wisdom, but it won't make you more intelligent. Also depends on what you're reading.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 13:45:18 2022 No.21288234 /fitlitx/ master race enlightened in mind, body and soul

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 14:48:37 2022 No.21288361 >>21280775 yes but you also have to >read out aloud >write about it

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 18:40:25 2022 No.21288945 File: 951 KB, 270x480, tate is stupid we know.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >reading

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]