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[quote=Anonymous][quote]What's the point of this discussion? Would you stop giving your brain regular workouts, so to speak, if you were convinced it would not increase your IQ? Would you start if you were convinced it would?

Or is this about whether people should start (keep?) drilling their preschoolers on various components of different IQ tests (e.g. repeating a string of numbers in reverse order) in hopes of making them smarter and/or convincing some school that such well-prepped kids are smarter than they really are?

None of these scenarios really make any sense to me. There are better ways to encourage kids (or people generally) to use their brains -- both because the activities involved are more engaging and because the learning involved has some long-term utility. [/quote]

I see parents all over the D.C. region drilling their preschoolers with footballs, soccer balls and baseballs.  No one is up in arms.  What's so damn sacred about reading, writing and mathematics drilling?  Everyone is up in arms.  If there is nothing wrong with becoming a better athlete what's wrong with becoming smarter with such task specific exercise?  What's all the fuss about?  You will surely improve your SAT, ACT, WPSSI, IQ test, AP or any other man created mental exercise with steady and longterm task specific training just as your lacrosse, swimming and soccer play.  There's nothing complicated here in the least.   Don't delude yourselves with the marketing of aptitude tests as such, and not simply tests of achievement.  Familiarity and preparation of the content will and does improve scores significantly.  It does not matter what the mental test.[/quote]

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