Common Misconceptions About Intelligence V: Education Increases Intelligence

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Common Misconceptions About Intelligence V: Education Increases Intelligence | E pur si muove | Big Think

Education does not increase your intelligence. It’s the other way around.

A subcategory of the last common misconception about intelligence (“Genes don’t determine intelligence, only the environment does”) is that you can become more intelligent, by reading more books, attending better schools, or receiving more education. It is true that there are strong correlations among these traits. People who read more books are more intelligent; people who attend better schools are more intelligent; and people who attain more education are more intelligent. But the causal order is the opposite of what many people assume. There are associations among these traits, because more intelligent people read more books, attend better schools (partly because their parents are more intelligent and therefore make more money), and receive more education.

 

[The Real]

Idiotic article by a man who is considered a quack by the majority of scientists in his own field, which itself is largely conservative and genetically-determinist. There's a wealth of information out there showing that IQ (not intelligence, which he loosely throws around without defining it) can be permanently increased by a variety of childhood activities, whether reading, playing music, learning a second language, etc, when they are followed up properly.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Stupid ass baseless article from a joke of a scientist who is considered a laughingstock by his peers.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...eDCpKr2y4dHPHTwfOrCA&rlz=1Y1YYEK_enUS514US514

 

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