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How to increase your IQ level ?

wise47 said:
Therefore, there is a limit to raising IQ...
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I.Q. is merely a score on a test. You can score better on the test by participating in education. For every year of schooling you complete, your score on the test will go up by some number of points. You can raise your I.Q. only by learning new things. You can't raise your I.Q. by just sitting and thinking really hard about it or listening to music or any of the things you've suggested.

Your critics are therefore likely to agree with this statement. There is indeed a limit on how far you can raise your I.Q., and that limit is fairly severe.

wise47 said:
...and it shouldn't exceed a certain level.
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Because the number that represents your I.Q. score comes from a statistical model, it cannot exceed a certain value without being absurd. Your method of measuring I.Q. seems to be just imagining a number based on how smart you feel on any give day. That's not how it's done. Further, you pretend your made-up numbers are comparable to the ones derived from test scores and scaled according to a distribution meant to normalize them across a population. That's arithmetically incorrect. The numbers you claim—800 or 1600 and so forth—do not fit the statistical model and so cannot be considered valid scores.

Again your critics are likely to agree with this statement too. The highest score contemplated by the model is 160. If you claim your I.Q. is higher than 160, you need to first show which objective, established test you took. You cannot simply say you believe yourself to be very smart or you feel smart and assign a numerical value to those feelings. Then you need to explain how a higher number is statistically possible in the model, such that your much higher score can be compared directly with other scores.
 
Every "endeavor" comes with an opportunity cost. Trying to raise one's IQ per se is maybe not the best use of one's time.

This is why schools don't attempt to teach children how to increase their IQ. Instead they teach actual concrete teachable subjects, like Math, language (written, spoken or foreign), science, history, and so on.

In the process of this education, as a side effect, the students' IQs may be increased as a result as they learn more things.
 
wise47 said:
Striving to reach 300 points isn't the worst endeavor either.
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Striving to fart your way to the Moon isn't the worst thing you could do, but it's about as possible as just wishing your way to a 300 I.Q. For someone who claims to have an astronomical I.Q. you really have a hard time grasping important concepts like what I.Q. actually is, what it measures, and what the numbers actually mean.
 
And not attainable by any testing procedure.

Do you understand that yet? An IQ test cannot measure beyond the 200 or so range. It lacks the ability to quantify a 400 score. It *cannot* happen, anymore than you can will yourself to be 25 feet tall.

IIRC, the highest tested score was a child-adjusted one where the kid tested around 275, mostly because he tested as an adult in the genius range. The highest adult score was around 225. The way the test is structured, it simply cannot provide a score at or above 300.
 
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