/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.10445150]

How do you learn how to learn?

[Anonymous No.10445157]

by paying thousands upon thousands of dollars for a university degree :^)

[Anonymous No.10445160]

>>10445150
online, I guess.

Use stuff like mind palace that unironically work wonders.

It's not a Sherlock Holmes meme it really works to memorize a big fat load of informations.

Use associations, mnemonics and shit.

[Anonymous No.10445188]

>>10445150
Have parents that give you attention as a baby

[Anonymous No.10445191]

if you have curiosity and access to old encyclopedias it helps. you read a dictionary for fun, then you begin to explore some words you find interesting.

this develops into a past time like collecting butterflies, or bird watching, maybe amateur astronomy, hobby mathematics, could be drawing or painting which might develop into sculpture, perhaps is woodworking or blacksmithing, there are a lot of things that can emerge from just being exposed to a generic summary of all human accomplishment. then you pursue this interest deeply and gain an education from a trustworthy institution where maybe other people you now hold up as inspirational heroes from that field attended or are currently teaching in.


you may find the easiest thing to do is simply take a comprehensive online IQ test, and then see where your ceiling is:

>150+ mathematics and all the below
>140+ physics
>130+ chemistry, biology, engineering
>120+ law, medicine, arts, computer science, architecture
>110+ sales, marketing, advertising, finance, business, management
>100+ homemaker, laborer, tradesman, blue collar work
>90 and below: you will struggle to avoid drug and alcohol addiction, your life is better spent being quietly religious and avoiding reproduction.

[Anonymous No.10445194]

>>10445191
Any recommendations for a valid online IQ test?

[Anonymous No.10445200]

>>10445150
Just like anything else, through trial and error. Which is why I think that exams and the more traditional model of education is still very valuable to most.

[Anonymous No.10445202]

>>10445191
>tfw 143 iq but dumb as a bag of bricks

[Anonymous No.10445217]

Do what makes you comfortable without causing the learner to block the signs and symbols you use to acquire a sense of your environment.

[Anonymous No.10445356]

Memorization, conceptualization

[Anonymous No.10445376]

By learning

[Anonymous No.10445388]

put yourself to a fuckin test bruh.
thats the only evidince you've learned anything.

[Anonymous No.10445409]

>>10445191
>potential is capped by IQ

Even if you have sub 90 IQ you can learn to do any of that stuff, it'll just take you more time. The benefit that high thought speed grants you is you can recheck and double check and cross reference things with spare time. Of course if you're lazy or uninterested or get distracted then having faster brain doesn't help.

However, in the spirit of OP's original post, what are some good was to "think faster"

[Anonymous No.10445526]

>>10445150
It requires learning first.

[Anonymous No.10445546]

>>10445150
Okay so it is really easy.
1. LEARN CRITICAL THINKING. Google:
Critical thinking philosophy class
2. LEARN MEMORY PSYCHOLOGY. Google:
Memory encoding and retrieval
Mnemonics and memorization
3. FIND YOUR LEARNING STYLE. Google:
Learning styles
Repetition in learning
ALSO SUPER IMPORTANT BE AN ENTREPRENEUR AND GOOGLE YOUR SHIT BEFORE ASKING SCI A SHIT QUESTION YES I AM SCREAMING NOW

[Anonymous No.10445585]

>>10445150
read lots of maths textbooks, even if you don't want to learn maths.

[Anonymous No.10445620]

>>10445191
Everyone ignore this post, it is straight up bullshit that stats deny:
>150+ mathematics and all the below
>140+ physics
>130+ chemistry, biology, engineering
>120+ law, medicine, arts, computer science, architecture
>110+ sales, marketing, advertising, finance, business, management
>100+ homemaker, laborer, tradesman, blue collar work
>90 and below: you will struggle to avoid drug and alcohol addiction, your life is better spent being quietly religious and avoiding reproduction.
All of these have been overstated by, at least, 1 standard deviation.
The actual average IQ of college majors is:
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[Anonymous No.10445622]

>>10445191
>>10445620
As for general categories:
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[Anonymous No.10447318]

>>10445620
>>10445622
i said ceiling.

you could do math with a 130 iq, you will just struggle immensely, and with 140 you will be a mediocre professor and feel lifelong frustration at your inability to make significant contributions to a field.

try to imagine yourself at 30 with your phd, at 40 your best years behind you, 50 now training younger students who might have a higher ceiling than you- even worse feeling if they dont, at 60 starting to look back on your career and realising you were just there to indoctrinate a new generation of people into empiricism and probably were a political actor this entire time without realising, 70 a wasted life, 80 angry and confused.

[Anonymous No.10447335]

>>10445150
>How do you learn how to learn?
What have you tried?

[Anonymous No.10447344]

>>10445150
Here's the meta-analysis https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z10jaVH/60XQM/full
Pic related is the upshot.

[Anonymous No.10447348]

>>10445202
>tfw I'm a confirmed 190 IQ genius but I'm mentally retarded

[Anonymous No.10447349]

>>10445409
>However, in the spirit of OP's original post, what are some good was to "think faster"
Maybe this?

[Anonymous No.10447378]

For anyone lurking who has a genuine passion for pursuing an academic discipline, don't be dissuaded by the kind of retardation seen in >>10445191. I'd recommend reading what professional mathematicians have to say on this issue. This post from terry is especially relevant:
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to-be-a-genius-to-do-maths/
Also this:
http://talentdevelop.com/articles/HTBAG.html

Your mathematical ability, or anything really, depends on how much time you dedicate to it. You may learn slower or faster than some, and you may have to study like a madman, but you shouldn't assume your life will amount to nothing because "muh IQ". The types like >>10447318 don't realize this, as they lack the discipline required to put in the necessary time to reach excellence in anything whatsoever. Please don't take life advice from shitposters using IQ to rationalize their own failures.

[Anonymous No.10447393]

>>10447378
tao was a child prodigy and genius, why would you take his advice? it came naturally for him.

how old are you? where is your life experience coming from? every single university professor, if pressed to answer, will tell you that there is innate talent and ability in physics, maths, chemistry, engineering, etc. and without it, you are always one step behind.

you _COULD_ work harder sure, but this isn't a problem of computation. we don't need more flakes in the stem fields, what we need is talent. there are already too many scientists who don't actually belong, but are there simply to make up numbers, to be science communicators and educators, it's a giant bloated bureauracy and nothing gets done because normies have invaded a space where only the passionate belong.


why are you lying to people? what do you get from filling up countless departments with C and B level students who squeak by on exams and never develop a fundamental base or understanding of the fields they study? what is your game trying to dumb down and expand every scientific field, do you want to halt all progress?

[Anonymous No.10447408]

I addressed my post to those with a genuine passion for any academic discipline--my job here is done. You're too irrelevant to warrant a proper response.

[Anonymous No.10447411]

You must learn your talents and use it

[Anonymous No.10447584]

>>10445150
first you learn how not to learn, then you don't do that.

[Anonymous No.10447625]

>>10447393
Autism

[Anonymous No.10447642]

>>10447318
So you think physics is easier than mathematics, or at least has a lower IQ threshold to be really successful, but for some reason people entering physics PhDs have higher IQ? How do you explain the discrepancy?

[Anonymous No.10447650]

>>10445150
By learning how to learn how to learn

[Anonymous No.10448288]

>>10445157
nah senpai

[Anonymous No.10449048]

>>10445620
That checks out

[Anonymous No.10449064]

>>10445150
Unironically my High School Physics and Calculus. At Riemann sums I realized what I needed to do and then learned it.