Parents CAN do plenty to lower their kids IQ. Such as just giving up on their children, and not encouraging active learning. So parents should try to make their kids smarter.
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Replying to @JamesonHalpern @webdevMason
Not true. The smart kids will learn even if you hide their books in the attic. The dumb kids won’t learn even if you hide their food in the books.
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Replying to @pumkinbaer @JamesonHalpern
If you define "smart kids" as "kids who learn even if you hide their books in the attic," and define "dumb kids" as "kids who won't learn even if you hide their food in the books," this is of course true. But then you're just playing with definitions, not making an observation
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Replying to @webdevMason @JamesonHalpern
Nope, I’m just defining smart people as people who can solve problems
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Replying to @pumkinbaer @JamesonHalpern
Plenty of people who can solve various kinds of problems don't, whether or not there's food hidden in their books
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Replying to @webdevMason @JamesonHalpern
There is a large crowd of unsolved problems accompanied by an even larger crowd of helpless people that beg to differ with you.
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Replying to @pumkinbaer @JamesonHalpern
Lots of people are or feel helpless for reasons that have very little to do with cognitive ability, particularly the abilities captured by IQ (ability to work through certain kinds of toy problems at high speed)
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There's no doubt that it's very helpful in life to have that ability to some exceptional degree, but that's probably not the bottleneck in most lives, given that most real-world problems aren't attached to a short timer and vary widely in complexity
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Replying to @webdevMason @JamesonHalpern
Life is rife with little timers, and in any case removing them doesn’t change the relative results. High scorers today would use the extra time better just like they use the given time now, and end up the high scorers of tomorrow as well.
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Replying to @pumkinbaer @JamesonHalpern
If we were all tasked with precisely the same work + challenges in life, this would probably be an important truth. But as it stands, there are plenty of problems to go around, & the scientist who makes his breakthrough in 2 years & the one who makes his in 20 are both celebrated
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And then there are all the people who are stuck less by their cognitive ability than their perception of it, and their inability to summon the courage to continue trying to learn even after receiving the various labels we use for "dumb"
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Replying to @webdevMason @JamesonHalpern
Yeah we’ve looked for such people and they don’t exist. Again, it would be nice if there was a reserve army of geniuses waiting for nothing more expensive than a dose of encouragement. Decades of frantic searching haven’t found one.
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