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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As Einstein has said "it's simple":   IQ is not fixed in the least.  It's plastic.  I don't see what's so complicated about this subject for you to comprehend.   
 
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I'm another poster who thinks IQ may be variable, under the right circumstances.  But a big problem for you is that you always, always, always overstate the case, and this undermines anything you say and makes ridicule inevitable.

First, there are clearly limits to our ability to influence IQ.  We don't know how to turn an IQ of 70 into an IQ of 140. Nor, for that matter, do we know how to turn an IQ of 120 into an IQ of 140, or at least the study you cited didn't show that.  Second, some of the change seems to be temporary not permanent, as shown in the study. Let me quote:  "The gains tend to fade after practice stops" although music training and some other experiences seem to be exceptions. Third, only 9% of the 33 kids in the study (that's about [b]3[/b] of the kids in the study) had a "significant" (15 points) change in IQ, and one kid's IQ actually [b]fell[/b] from 114 to 96.

Here are some tips:
(1) If you quote Einstein when he was talking about something totally unrelated to your point, it doesn't make you right.
(2) If you repeat your point over and over, it doesn't make you right.  It just makes you ... repetitive.
(3) If you link to an article but then you fail to acknowledge some of the caveats in the article (temporary nature of IQ changes, limited results of the study, et cetera), it doesn't make you right, it actually undermines anything you say.[/quote]

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