You do realise that simply doing the IQ test more than once will result in a higher IQ score? I wouldn’t be surprised at all if placebo, and muscle memory accounts for a 10-20 point difference.
Edit: surprised at how much this is getting downvoted when I’m absolutely correct? Even professional IQ taking centres factor in whether someone’s taken the test before to account for practice effects. There’s a guy (I can’t recall his name) who takes an IQ test once a year (might be in the Guinneas Book of World Records, not sure) and has gone from 120 to 150 IQ.
Yes, he realizes and it would have been easy for you to know by reading. He had a control group that also took IQ tests to factor out training effects.
I didn’t get that impression at all from ‘...for every point of IQ gained upon retaking the tests...’ but each to their own interpretation, I guess.
I just don’t see the feasibility in accounting for a practice effect when retaking the IQ test is also directly linked to the increased score you’re bound to get.
I just don’t see the feasibility in accounting for a practice effect when retaking the IQ test is also directly linked to the increased score you’re bound to get.
You do realise that simply doing the IQ test more than once will result in a higher IQ score? I wouldn’t be surprised at all if placebo, and muscle memory accounts for a 10-20 point difference.
Edit: surprised at how much this is getting downvoted when I’m absolutely correct? Even professional IQ taking centres factor in whether someone’s taken the test before to account for practice effects. There’s a guy (I can’t recall his name) who takes an IQ test once a year (might be in the Guinneas Book of World Records, not sure) and has gone from 120 to 150 IQ.
Yes, he realizes and it would have been easy for you to know by reading. He had a control group that also took IQ tests to factor out training effects.
I didn’t get that impression at all from ‘...for every point of IQ gained upon retaking the tests...’ but each to their own interpretation, I guess.
I just don’t see the feasibility in accounting for a practice effect when retaking the IQ test is also directly linked to the increased score you’re bound to get.
How do you think controlled experiments work?