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[quote=Anonymous][/quote][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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Scoring well in the second grade may mean intelligence.

But prepping does not help intelligence (it may help the score though).

Of course, preparation and mental exercise improves intelligence. Sounds like the pathetic junk science logic behind the raped can't get pregnant.

Intellectual development will allow a child to grow to there full potential. Just like training allows Bryce Harper to be good. [b]With that said, no amount of training will turn someone with average intellect into a genious. Nor will I ever be able to play baseball like Bryce Harper[/b].

Prepping for the CogAT or NNAT will not improve [b]your childs intellectual ability[/b]. It may improve the test score. If you want to improve your childs intellectual ability, on on a walk out side, get the child to observe nature, and understand what they are seeing: why are streams at the bottom of the hill? why does moss grow on the north side of trees? Take them to museums. Teach them that it is ok to wonder why, and try to teach the how to answer the why.

Spend your summer studing for a test, and it is a lost summer.

[b]Well said.[/b] [quote]

Well said by the bible clutching preacher!

I wonder why children and young adults spend hours upon hours in the pool, baskeball court and track trying to become the next Michael Phelps, Kobe Bryant (Michael Jordan)or Usain Bolt (note all the latter athletes spent an inordinate amount of time as children honing their craft). I doubt any of them knew, at such a young age, [b]this intense training and preparation [/b]would bring global stardom.  Did you PP?

How do you measure a child's or fully mature adult's intellectual ability?

You can't and you don't know who will be smart and reap the rewards of global intellectual stardom.  Mental exercise (training and preparation) will at least give you a sporting shot ... just like it did for Phelps, Jordan and Bolt.  Without this training and preparation each would have amounted to a hill of beans in their respective sports!!!

Constant reach for and intensely clutching the remote and the TV at your peril.  This will [b]most definetely decrease[/b] your intellect.  You can take that to the bank.
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