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Are you energized or drained when surrounded by people you regard as more intelligent?

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For some people, being surrounded by those who seem to learn more quickly and understand concepts more readily is mentally draining, while for others it’s energizing. Why the difference? For those of us who see themselves as lacking in intelligence, watching others succeed where we struggle erodes our self-concept and creates a negative, self-defeating state …

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What are the benefits of debate beyond winning and losing arguments?

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Participating in a debate can be a wonderful learning experience, but it comes with some important caveats. First and foremost, both you and your opponent must be willing to accept that your point of view might be biased, incorrect, or in need of modification. When two debaters have a strong emotional investment in their points …

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Do People with very High IQ’s share any traits? What are they and how do they view people of average intelligence?

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What Traits do High IQ people Share? Most people would agree that Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr. and Benjamin Franklin were highly intelligent people. All had a high degree of self-efficacy, believing in their vision even when it ran contrary to consensus. Albert Einstein’s assertions that time is not absolute …

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Can IQ be increased by Training the Brain, or does it only Decrease with Age?

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This is a question that has haunted mathematicians and physicists as well those in other high IQ professions. In 1927, physicist Paul Dirac, who won a Nobel Prize at age 31 for his work in quantum physics, wrote the following quatrain: Age is, of course, a fever chillThat every physicist must fear.He’s better dead than …

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Think you’re intelligent? You Ain’t seen nothin’ Yet: Part III

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En route to our discussion of ChatGPT, we have been providing a very brief summary of some of the milestones in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) that have brought us to a point where many computer scientists are advising that we declare a temporary halt to further development until we can establish some “guardrails” …

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Think You’re Intelligent? You Ain’t seen nothin’ Yet: Part II

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In the previous post, Think You’re Intelligent? You Ain’t seen nothin’ Yet: Part I, (https://www.intelligence-and-iq.com/think-youre-intelligent-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet-part-i/) we traced the early stages of artificial intelligence (AI) en route to a discussion of the latest AI software ChatGPT (Generative, Pre-trained Generator) that is rocking the intellectual world. In that post we visited the defeat of chess master Gary …

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Think you’re intelligent? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!: Part I

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A few months ago, the latest innovation in artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, was released, creating a tsunami of controversy about its implications for news, education, politics and war. It has been described as a societal game-changer that may even exceed the impact of the printing press in granting to all humans access to information never before …

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My IQ was tested as below average when I was 5. I’m now in a stem program at a top university. Do You think the IQ Test was inaccurate?

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IQ test scores are not particularly reliable for children at age 5 because children mature mentally at different rates. (Einstein was so late in learning to speak that his parents feared that he would never acquire language.) Between birth and early adulthood, the brain passes through significant periods of neural growth and pruning in which …

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