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Is it possible to actually rise your IQ by studying? I mean if your IQ is average and you arent fond 'bout studying that means your average but if you have average IQ and you study and obtain more knowledge does that mean your IQ automatically raises? (Srry about my shitty engrish etc, hope you'll get the point of this ;_;)

>> No.3759570

yes.

>> No.3759575

>IQ

>> No.3759584

No. You can pile on as much facts and general knowledge as you want, OP, it's not going to change how you think.

>> No.3759589

Not only can you improve your results on IQ tests by practice and study, a trivial fact if anything; you can actually make yourself more intelligent by applying yourself.

There may be a limit to your biological potential, intelligence is, to a large degree, genetic. But you'll never know what that is unless you push it. Schwarzenegger wouldn't have been as built as he was if he relied on his natural size and strength while avoiding exercise and eating junkfood all day.

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>>3759584

Yeah. Education is not going to change how you think. Nor your surroundings where you were educated. Nor your parents. Heck if anyone dropped out of kindergarten and spent their lives farming potatoes they could just enter 12th grade, pick up writing and rithmatic and score 100 or moar on an IQ test by graduation/

>> No.3759640

>Implying IQ is a measure of actual intelligence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mensans

>Porn stars, boxers, and criminals
>No significant mathematicians/scientists

>> No.3759648

yes

maths practice and critical thinking both help with scoring well

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>>3759640

That list gave me cancer.

>> No.3759660

>>3759640
Geena davis is worth 7.2 scientists. Beetlejuice alone should be equivalent to a nobel

>> No.3759674

>rise your IQ
I think you mean raise.

>> No.3759676

raise by studying IQ tests and questions since IQ is a measure of good you are at IQ tests - not intelligence.

>> No.3759755

How an idiot argues that someone is intelligent:
>idiot: durr hurr, he/she may be an actor/actress but they're in mensa, so they must be very very smart! just as smart or SMARTER than Einstein. this influences their acting skills or something and they're very good at problem solving.
>do you have any examples that show that they're good at problem solving?
>idiot: fuck you, how do i personally know him/her? also you're not in mensa so YOU LACK THEIR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND YOUR QUESTION IN INVALID. oh wait, i know a friend in mensa too. he showed me his certificate and I just trembled in fear at his prowess. intelligent people sure are super human! they work at a level beyond what we can grasp. because i'm not in mensa i will never understand their superior thinking processes, which I don't even want to break down and analyze. here, look at my list where I rank a lot of famous and cool people on how smart they are. obviously stephen hawkings in #1, einstein is #2... I'm not sure what they accomplished but it has something to do with time travel, I bet!

>> No.3759764

>>3759755
How a rational person argues that someone is intelligent:
>Rational person: I work with this man at my company. In my opinion that is shared by many others, he is incredibly sharp and intelligent in the sense that he can solve problems very swiftly.
>how do you know that?
>there have been many instances where our company required someone to think of innovative solutions to solve problems. he did not solve every problem but he did solve most of them, and coordinated our team in a way that allowed us to work faster than the other ones. after going through his solutions I realized that he was very quick in recognizing patterns that I would not have seen, and comparing his solutions to the solutions proposed by many, many others, I see that his are more efficient and creative. There are other people on our team who solve problems better than he can in his weaker areas, since different people seem to have different ways of thinking, as evidenced by the many cases I have analyzed. He is also a member of Mensa, although Mensa is not a very good criteria to judge intelligence because I know some members of Mensa who have very poor problem solving skills, which I deduced in a manner similar to how I deduced this man's intelligence. Let me break down and compare/contrast his aspects to show you why I believe he is intelligent...

>> No.3759826

>>3759584
>OP, it's not going to change how you think.
That's untrue.
You can change how you think, you just cannot change how well you think. You can develop processes and questions to ask to help understand things better but it won't make you physically smarter than you are capable of being. You just learn to use mental tools more effectively and become more effective.
It has the same effect as being smarter, without being any smarter, just better prepared to mental challenges.

>> No.3759849

>>3759764
>>3759755
Are you implying beetlejuice is not worth a nobel?

>> No.3759859

Studying will absolutely help your memory. Not to mention make you much better at solving problems in new ways, recognizing patterns, understanding new concepts etc.etc.

But i dont know about IQ.