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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take your response to indicate that IQ is not fixed and exposure, preparation and training can significantly improve scores.  Afterall, as you hint, IQ tests are nothing more than achievement tests and performance on achievement tests are not fixed and can significantly improve with exposure, preparation and training.  Hard work and preserverance may explain to a large degree why Asian Americans score higher than all the rest on tests and exams -- including IQ tests.  
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Then I apologize, because that is not what I meant to indicate at all.  Rather, I call into question the whole premise of trying to measure intelligence in the first place.  First, as evidenced by both this discussion and the "Asians" discussion going on simultaneously, nobody seems to be able to even agree on a common definition of what intelligence is.  Second, if something cannot even be defined, how can it possibly be quantified in any sort of meaningful way?

I do not doubt that people can be trained to perform better on a test than they would without training.  However, whether that training actually has any actual effect on intelligence is highly debatable.  Is the training improving intelligence or is it merely improving performance?  The two may overlap, but they are by no means the same thing.  If the goal is to achieve a higher score on an IQ test, by all means train for the test.  If the goal is to increase intelligence in a more abstract sense, then I cannot say with any certainty whether training will have any positive effect or not.  [/quote]

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