The spirit moved me tonight and I emitted a review of Stuart Ritchie’s “Intelligence: All That Matters,” which I read a while ago. It’s basically just an extended riff on the fitness analogy that I mentioned here while I was reading it, so it may be nothing new to you, but anyway, here it is
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magfrump said: Reading through this thread was very satisfying for me and resolves a bit of cognitive dissonance that I had about IQ stuff in general. My conclusion is I agree with Rob. I like the physical fitness analogy and it reminds me of things like dual-n-back and similar brain exercises; I wonder if there are any practical intelligence sub-tests that generalize to non-test activities the way weight lifting generalized to lifting non-weights.
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I replied and we had a brief exchange (full thread here)This is partially an argument about IQ, and partially an...
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I wish I had a source on this, but I saw a picture once of the Olympic medalists (or something like that) in a bunch of...
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