What's your IQ? ... Aptitude test results?

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ArchangelMadzz said:

Ka-pi96 said:

That.... looks like what a graph of time/money spent on education per country would look like.

I always thought IQ was supposed to be how naturally intelligent someone was and not just a measure of how educated they are, but apparently not.

It's how good your brain acts and thinks recognized patterns and systems, but the brain like any muscle the more you use it the better it becomes.

So someone who's been educated for 20 years will naturally have a higher IQ than someone who hasn't because they're brain doesn't need a higher IQ because they've not had to use it fully during education.

It isn't a muscle though.

Also everyone uses their brain every day, without using it you would not be able to breath or.... anything, sure you can make certain areas of the brain become more skilled at certain tasks which you repeat over and over again not unlike a CPU caching certain code, but that doesn't require a high IQ to do, nor does having a higher IQ mean you will be proficient at things in a general sense.