Michael Regilio
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first heard Nov 2024
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There's fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence. Crystallized intelligence sounds pretty cool. It does sound cool.
Actually, there are some organizations like that, only they aren't secret. Mensa, I know you've heard of that one. Yeah. For example, is the largest and oldest high IQ society. You have to score in the 98th percentile or higher on an approved supervised IQ test. They even have their own IQ tests. There's also the triple nine society. You need to have an even higher IQ to get into that one.
Yeah, they're really just non-profits publishing journals with puzzles and poems and helping to provide scholarships to gifted students.
Yeah, that's right. And more than a few. We still use IQ scores when determining certain public policies. We still consider it regarding military service. And kids still take stuff like SATs, but that's not necessarily IQ, I think. That is just the idea that we can test people's intelligence and that is still alive and well, just with some healthy skepticism mixed in now.
Yeah. At a basic level, you'd hope that we'd be able to test people's intelligence just generally so we can try to make people smarter or find out what is hindering their development.
It behooves us as a society to try and figure out a way to gauge intelligence, at least generally speaking. I'm not sure breaking it all down into a single number is possible, but you'd like to think that we could come up with some sort of value.
Aha, this is the back and forth playing out to this day. And there are scholars, academics and psychologists, you name it, on both sides of the fence. Some have disputed the idea that IQ has any value at all when measuring intelligence. Others believe it can determine academic potential or has validity for clinical purposes.
Others will straight up swear by the results and extrapolate all kinds of things from the data.
The results and interpretations of long-term studies of IQ among large populations is hotly contested. But there is the Flynn effect. Named after researcher James Flynn, this highlighted increases in IQ scores measured all across the world over time. On average, IQ scores were rising by about three points per decade starting in the first half of the 20th century.
And not by a little. Three points per decade might be one small step for a 10-year period, but over the course of half a century, that's one giant leap for mankind's intelligence.
And that explanation seems to be environment. If IQ was mostly genetic and fixed, you wouldn't expect entire populations to get smarter over just a few decades. Genes don't evolve that fast.
Absolutely. But other factors play in as well, like better health, cleaner water. And the one that kind of blew my mind was that we live in more cognitively demanding environments. People do more abstract thinking in the modern world. Modern life just requires more problem solving and, quote unquote, out of the box thinking.
Yeah. Family size is, in fact, one of the many factors experts point to to explain the Flynn effect. there are plenty of studies that suggest that IQ is going up or at least for several decades it was going up crap so are we getting dumber now There is some data pointing to a decrease in IQ in recent years. Norway, Denmark, Finland have all seen decreases in IQ ever since the 1990s.
In Britain, scores started dropping around the year 2004. In the United States, it's a mixed bag.
But there are hints that scores are dropping for people born after 1990.
Yeah, could be. That's the appeal of the IQ test in the first place. If we do have a reasonably accurate way of measuring intelligence, then we can use that data and try and determine variables or factors that can affect intelligence.
Yeah. I'm from a family of six kids, Catholic, go figure. I like to say my mother had three ways of helping me with my homework. First, she tried yelling at me, then she tried screaming at me, and then she tried shrieking at me, and then she was totally out of ideas.
If we don't have a measure of intelligence, at least in general, how can we tell if things are making us smarter or dumber?
Absolutely. And it's helpful to know if, say, an aging person is starting to lose their intelligence and what can be done to reduce that decline. Also, how can we ensure that every school kid has the best opportunity to learn and succeed? How can we identify students who need extra assistance to achieve their potential?
The standard testing, which from what I remember of George W. Bush's presidency, he may have done a little paste eating himself. OK, politics aside, look, the fact of the matter is no child left behind had good intentions, but became deeply unpopular. And for valid reasons, it instituted standardized testing and schools were often seen as just trying to teach the test.
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