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People are dumb by choice. IQ is the abilty to see patterns but your abilitiy to see patterns improves based on how much time you spend looking at similar patterns. If you spend hours and hours over months learning to do IQ tests, your IQ test results will improve. Obviouly this exercise wont improve your actual IQ. IQ tests fail because of this. Not only can you improve your IQ test scores without improving your IQ, you can have higher score just by having spent your time in the right domains. If you spent a lot of time in maths, you will do better in IQ test. If you spent a lot of time thinking about physical manipulations you will do better on the IQ test. This second part can be double checked by giving shape manipulation part of the IQ test to carpenters and then comparing the score with other skilled laborers that dont work with shapes. The average of carpenters will be higher than non-shape workers. The reason that the default IQ is different for people has a lot to do wi

Think Home Think March, 2025 People are dumb by choice. IQ is the ability to see patterns but your ability to see patterns improves based on how much time you spend looking at similar patterns. If you spend hours and hours over months learning to do IQ tests, your IQ test results will improve. Obviouly this exercise wont improve your actual IQ. IQ tests fail because of this. Not only can you improve your IQ test scores without improving your IQ, you can have higher score just by having spent your time in the right domains. If you spent a lot of time in maths, you will do better in IQ test. If

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