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[quote=Anonymous][quote]You'd think/hope that someone with a background in medicine would realize that sometimes treating/modifying the indicator doesn't eliminate (or even ameliorate) the underlying condition.

Practicing something like evaluating verbal analogies or repeating a string of numbers backward will increase scores on tests that measure those particular abilities (treating them as an index of intelligence) without having much impact, if any, on a person's intelligence.

If we lived in a world where rating the quality of verbal analogies or reordering numbers helped us do something more than raise our scores on standardized tests (e.g. in some bizarre alternative universe where doing such tasks well would enable us to solve problems, cure cancer, make money, invent technologies, live together in peace and harmony, etc.), then repetitive training to help our kids do these things as quickly and accurately as possible would make sense. But in this world, it's just a waste of time that could be devoted to a myriad of more intellectually worthwhile activities. [/quote]

Can you translate this purple passage in plain and simple English?

Stimulation and training results in remarkable changes at the molecular, cellular, organ and system levels (my observations in all types of cells -- e.g., neurons and myoctyes).  Some scientists are demonstrating this with biomarker studies, molecular studies, bioenergetic studies and imaging studies (e.g., recent Nature paper on plasticity of brain and significant changes in measured IQ posted by one of the discussants on this board).  These findings neither surprise me or many colleagues.  They do surprise most individuals thus your reaction is of no surprise to me. I remained biased from my longstanding observations and the scientific data.[/quote]

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