Mojo
Mostly harmless
I can confirm that the CD reissue has this table in the middle of its booklet. It also says, "befriend a bacterium".
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How to increase your IQ level ?
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This table comes from: the IQ and Chess strength website
W.D.Clinger
Philosopher
Where it was copied from Kevin O'Byrne, who styled himself as Kevin of the Teachers and was remembered less than fondly by many of those who knew him. The Q and Chess strength website expressed skepticism about that table, using it only to motivate the following prose:
The main point here is that it is possible to increase your skill at chess (your Elo and BCF ratings) by putting in "many years of intense effort".
I see no evidence that the author of that web page believes you can increase your IQ. Kevin of the Teachers seems to have been regarded as an eccentric, so there's no telling what he believed, but his opinions regarding IQ would have been worthless no matter what he believed.
Which, I must admit, points toward some degree of kinship between Kevin of the Teachers and the originator of this thread, and leads me to ponder the following philosophical question: Is it possible for a person W to be the reincarnation of a person K who died long after W was born?
theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
I still have questions
Wouldn't you need an IQ of at least 175 to know if this table is correct?
What if your IQ is 140, and you just think this table is correct because of your conditioning?
Trebuchet
Penultimate Amazing
It must be true, I saw it on the internet!
Roger Ramjets
Philosopher
The author believes that IQ is correlated with chess scores, and admits that playing chess increases chess scores, yet balks at the idea that playing chess increases IQ.
This is where I disagree. IQ is nothing more than the score you get on an IQ test. If playing chess gets you a higher IQ score then ipso facto it has increased your IQ. I believe that teaching yourself to think logically can increase your IQ. Once the brain has learned the 'tricks' to solving logic problems it becomes easier. IQ isn't just about being able to solve problems, but doing it quickly and accurately with confidence. Playing chess teaches you to do that.
Of course with IQ - as with any activity - there's a limit to how good you can get. Most people don't anywhere near their natural limit in any activity, because they don't apply themselves. Which is fair enough. Most us are content to be good enough at whatever we do, and use the free time to relax and enjoy life.
As the author of that article points out, the number of master chess players in England is way lower than the potential number of geniuses in the population. That's not because they don't exist, but because few people want to waste their lives playing chess.
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How do you know I don't achieve a higher IQ? With my method, I can go much higher.
Pixel42
Schrödinger's cat
Mojo
Mostly harmless
We've seen what you post.
JayUtah
Penultimate Amazing
Because you can’t demonstrate you understand what I.Q. is.
Dave Rogers
Bandaged ice that stampedes inexpensively through
Unevaluated inequality fallacy. That just places an upper limit on the higher IQ; we have no information on the a priori value.
Dave
The_Animus
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I've always thought of intelligence as pattern recognition and the ability to see associations between things that are connected in some way.
I also feel like people are born with varying maximum intelligence potential in any given area but how much of that potential you reach is based on your upbringing and how much you've learned, studied, practiced, etc. Basically the old adage, nurture allows what nature endows.
Einstein was a very intelligent man. If he had lived his entire life as a simple farmer he would still have the mathematical intelligence potential to be a genius in the field but would never have reached or utilized that potential.
As others have stated, how quickly someone is able to come to the correct solution is also related to intelligence. If two people took the same test and got all the same answers right and wrong. The one who was able to figure out the correct answers faster would be considered the more intelligent of the two.
So while I think you can increase the utilization of your innate intelligence, I think anyone claiming to be able to increase their innate intelligence or maximum intellect potential or IQ or whatever one wants to call it, is full of it.
I also feel like people are born with varying maximum intelligence potential in any given area but how much of that potential you reach is based on your upbringing and how much you've learned, studied, practiced, etc. Basically the old adage, nurture allows what nature endows.
Einstein was a very intelligent man. If he had lived his entire life as a simple farmer he would still have the mathematical intelligence potential to be a genius in the field but would never have reached or utilized that potential.
As others have stated, how quickly someone is able to come to the correct solution is also related to intelligence. If two people took the same test and got all the same answers right and wrong. The one who was able to figure out the correct answers faster would be considered the more intelligent of the two.
So while I think you can increase the utilization of your innate intelligence, I think anyone claiming to be able to increase their innate intelligence or maximum intellect potential or IQ or whatever one wants to call it, is full of it.
Roger Ramjets
Philosopher
But IQ isn't 'whatever', it's specifically the score you get on an IQ test. So if you aim for a particular IQ and create a test to match it, the thing that's 'full of it' isn't the IQ - it's the test.
novaphile
Quester of Doglets
Pattyducking* is only one element of intelligence.
*Patterns generated through inductive reasoning.
P.J. Denyer
Penultimate Amazing
Repetition doesn't create credibility.
JayUtah
Penultimate Amazing
Why?
theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
The more I see this table, the more I think it's the product of that unfortunate band of intelligence(?) which is intelligent enough to produce this kind of thing, but not intelligent enough to understand why this kind of thing just makes them look like an idiot.
Because it is an interesting table.
Helen
Implicitly explicit
What do you find interesting about it? And from which language was it translated? It's very strangely worded.