Does preparation increase IQ or is IQ fixed?

[Anonymous]

Does preparation increase IQ or is IQ fixed? No amount of preparation, schooling, learning or education will budge what is fixed and hardened in stone. Is a preparation, schooling, learning or education a good or thing for young children...or only when playing ball?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203935604577066293669642830.html

[Anonymous]

Can you just leave it alone already?

[Anonymous]

Can you just leave it alone already?

Are you having a conversation with anyone in particular?

Your smarty pants response can apply to every subject on this board. Why do you read dcum? Just leave it alone already.

[Anonymous]

Wait - doesn't breastfeeding increase make your snowflake's IQ?

[Anonymous]

Wait - doesn't breastfeeding increase make your snowflake's IQ?

Yes, in the short term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you just leave it alone already?

ITA. This has got to be the poster who obsesses about "training for IQ like building muscles for a sports team." There's definitely interesting research in this field. But this particular poster has no idea what she's talking about, no objectivity, and fails to interpret correctly even the links she provides herself.

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

[Anonymous]

OP - why are you so hung up on this topic?

[Anonymous]

My IQ is over the 100th percentile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My IQ is over the 100th percentile.

But MENSA told me I was the only person in the DC area with an IQ>100th percentile!

[Anonymous]

Diagnosis: multiple personalities

[Anonymous]

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

... a familiar refrain on the entire dcum board from the lady with the multiple personality disorder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

... a familiar refrain on the entire dcum board from the lady with the multiple personality disorder.

Since you obviously just sock-puppeted yourself, does that mean you have a "split" personality?

[Anonymous]

Move along folk nothing to see here !

Try searching this refrain in dcum over the last few years

[Anonymous]

I dunno. I look at this thread optimistically as proof of the indomitability of the human spirit. No matter that s/he posts the same links over and over again. No matter that s/he always follows up the initial post with short-tempered hostility and personal attacks against anybody who questions or tries to debate the thesis. No matter that s/he repeatedly gets called out for being a nakedly obvious sock puppet. S/he keeps coming back again and again, doing the same thing over and over, and still apparently hopes for a different result.

Magnificent!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dunno. I look at this thread optimistically as proof of the indomitability of the human spirit. No matter that s/he posts the same links over and over again. No matter that s/he always follows up the initial post with short-tempered hostility and personal attacks against anybody who questions or tries to debate the thesis. No matter that s/he repeatedly gets called out for being a nakedly obvious sock puppet. S/he keeps coming back again and again, doing the same thing over and over, and still apparently hopes for a different result.

Magnificent!

What a wonderful attitude! Cheers to her, and to you too!