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- From: skh4161@mvs.draper.com (Kjeld Hvatum)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
- Subject: Re: IQ Test Creation Question
- Message-ID: <01GSL9H5I9NMADCKNQ@ccfvx3.draper.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:20:00 GMT
- Sender: mmdf@ns.draper.com (MMDF Master)
- Organization: Draper Laboratory
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- >From: larry wink <bbs-phaedrus%jwt.uucp@surname.draper.com>
- >Message-ID: <DVoJuB1w164w@jwt.UUCP>
- >
- >Once full maturity is reached, long term study may well improve on the scores
- >achieved on tests, but will not, IMHO, result in increased intelligence.
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- Well, OK, the basic problem here is we don't have any foundation from
- which to continue a debate, since you've not only not defined
- "intelligence", you've also implied it can't be directly measured by a
- test. If "intelligence" means inborn potential for neural cognitive
- efficiency, I can't argue with you - you've made your statement true by
- definition.
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