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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: IQ Test Creation Question
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <DVoJuB1w164w@jwt.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:19:09 GMT
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- bbs-phaedrus@jwt.UUCP (larry wink) writes:
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- >skh4161@mvs.draper.com (Kjeld Hvatum) writes:
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- >>So a test is only a pure intelligence test if it measures something that
- >>cannot be influenced by environment (which includes long term study)?
- >>In other words, is your definition of intelligence only something that
- >>is 100% inherited?
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- >Never claimed that intelligence cannot be influenced by environment. But I do
- >_not_ believe that intelligence can be influenced by long term study.
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- This may not be true. Experiments with animals have shown that intellectual
- stimulation can have a effect on brain structure. Animals raised in a
- more interesting enviroment develop more a complicated brain structure.
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- So using your mind may actually improve your mind.
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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