Getting way off topic now.
On 1/16/07, Mike Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Another question that I would like to ask is what distinguishes a student at
Harvard or at a top school from the rest of the students. And how can one
develop the aptitude to reach that level. Or is it just that some people are
born with a gift.
Eduardo Sabbatella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have the same IQ than Kasparov, He is millionarie
and famous and I'm a moron that have to spend almost
all his day coding for food.
This is a good proof that IQ tests do not work!!!!
:-P
--- Aidan Karley escribió:
> In article
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike
> Olsson
> wrote:
> > This is a bit off topic, but I am wondering if a
> person can play Go
> > to increase their IQ or improve their
> intelligence.
> If one is going to discuss the extremely
> slippy concept of
> "intelligence" (or it's far, far slippier distant
> relative
> "Intelligence Quotient"), then it's practically
> required to have read
> Stephen Jay Gould's "Mismeasure of Man" (various
> editions from about
> 1980 to at least 1996, including ISBN-10: 0393314251
> / ISBN-13:
> 978-0393314250). While it may not "blow out of the
> water" the whole
> subject of "intelligence testing", it does make one
> very well aware
> that the whole subject is a minefield of assumptions
> and prejudices
> (both conscious and unconscious.
> I read what was probably the original edition
> back in the
> mid-80s, and loaned my copy to a university friend
> who was studying
> psychology ; 15 year later she declined to return it
> because she was
> still regularly using it to deflate novice
> opinionated staff working
> under her with the "learning impaired". That would
> have been about the
> time of the infamously neo-racist tract "The Bell
> Curve".
>
> > From what I have read Kasparov's IQ is around 135
> so playing Chess
> > doesn't really increase a person's IQ.
> >
> About 2.3 standard deviations above the norm.
> That would imply
> he's in the top 1½% or thereabouts of the population
> in performance on
> IQ tests. Sounds like there's be 3
> Kasparov-equivalents per couple of
> full "Clapham Omnibuses". [Note 1] Or several per
> average chess club.
> Or maybe IQ test results are not a terribly good
> predictor of chess
> strength. I wouldn't really expect it to be much
> better a predictor of
> Go strength either.
>
>
> For what it's worth, the Aberdeen University
> Go Club was set up
> in the early 1980s by ... a carpenter. Always a good
> memory for
> deflating one's potential to self-aggrandisment.
>
>
> [Note 1] Standard British English idiom refers many
> questions to the
> opinion of the "man on the Clapham Omnibus", which
> seats about 75
> people and stands another couple of dozen.
>
> --
> Aidan Karley,
> Aberdeen, Scotland
> Written at Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:40 GMT, but posted
> later.
>
>
>
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