How do we increase our iq level?

[dreamblade]

As a few others have posted, treat your brain as a muscle and exercise it. Playing games like Brain Age on the DS or doing MENSA puzzles will help, as will memory games.

Nutrition also plays a part: taking Ginko or 5HTP Triptophen helps build or strengthen neural pathways. Deep green vegetables contain vitamin B12 which has also been known to help make your brain work. Minimise intake of alcohol and drugs. On a non-PC note, nicotine, in small doses, helps your neuro-transmitters to fire, effectively making you smarter.

Finally, there's a psycho-somatic component to this whole IQ thing. Your brain is a powerful limitless tool, but people tend to think there's a limit to its capacity, like on a hard drive. Not so. The only limits you will have are those you impose on yourself.

In my early 20's, I took an IQ test and scored 145. In my late 20's I took another and got 147. 3 years ago, I got 149. I'm never without a book. I rarely watch tv. The nature of my work requires I constantly learn about new emerging technologies, and I have a natural curiosity about the world in different aspects. I intent to be a student all my life.

 

[OddSox]

www.luminosity.com

A games website to check out. They keep a cumulative score of your performance, charting you progress in relation to other luminosity members. There are also a few articles worth reading on this topic.

I've been a member for about a month and I do find my brain feeling more alert, especially after a session. I can't say for sure if I'm becoming smarter, but I do FEEL smarter.

"... can’t open the page “http://www.luminosity.com/” because the server where this page is located isn’t responding."

The POWER of TERB!

 

[Master Muse]

High IQ and Artistic Tendencies

There is no correlation between a high IQ and artistic or non-artistic tendencies. Serious artists, not movie types, e.g., tend to have high IQs but that's because their work requires it. As many non-artists have high IQs for the same reason.

You are born with or without a high IQ. You cannot develop your capacity anymore than you can develop your ability to grow an extra few inches in height. You may exercise your capacity but not create more of it.

 

[buttercup]

Every time it has been scientifically studied, if you have a choice of twenty candidates for five job openings, give the twenty all the same one-hour IQ test, and then give the jobs to the five who score the highest.

If you do that, the fit of the five to the job will be a lot better than if you drew the names out of a hat. No other method of selecting the five has been shown to be better than chance.

These studies have included the selection of soldiers for missions during WW2, where the IQ test method of selection was compared, for effectiveness, with e.g subjecting all the candidates to a week-long assessment by top army officers, and other methods.

Another proven fact: the more certain a manager is that he himself can pick out the right candidates -- "I just know" -- the more it would be better to replace that manager with a roulette wheel.

There have been many discussions as to just what aspect of intelligence the IQ test measures. The one thing the IQ test has been proved to do, is to rank people in order of their ability to perform more or less any task.

 

[Anynym]

There are different opinions about "IQ".

One opinion says that it's a "measure" of an inherent capability. Another opinion says that it's a measure of how well one responds to certain specific tests.

But first, let's clear up a few misconceptions: if one test says you have an IQ of 121, and another test later on says 128, you cannot conclude that your IQ has gone up. The values imply a higher precision than their accuracy: the first test might have measured low, and the second might have measured high. Or both tests might have measured low, or both high. And so on. But you can reasonably suggest that someone measuring 121 probably has a higher "IQ" than someone measuring 100.

The problem isn't in suggesting that some people have a higher skill level at certain tasks than do others. The problem is in measuring it: if you took an IQ test in English, you might do better than you would taking an IQ test in Swahili. And this is the conundrum: one of the things the test is trying to measure is one's grasp of vocabulary. But if your vocabulary is weaker, is it an innate or experiential difference? Does it matter, to the extent that either cause will reduce your capacity?

For example, do you need to know the Greek alphabet in order to answer the following:
a:b::alpha:?
i) alpha
ii) beta
iii) epsilon
iv) omega

As has been pointed out above, those English speakers who do know the Greek alphabet do have a higher correlation with those who succeed at other tasks.

And ultimately that is what the IQ test is designed to measure: correlation with success at other intellectual tasks.

 

[Anynym]

The OP asked about raising one's "IQ". And yes, there are a number of things you can do.

Study vocabulary. Develop an interest in words. Their synonyms and antonyms. Get to know the etymology of words. Study the way different words relate to each other (e.g. superior and inferior adjectives). And go out of your way to learn new words.

Study numbers. Get to know and quickly recognize common sequences (such as, say, the Fibonacci sequence).

Study the way different forms relate to each other. For example, if an image is rotated to the right, or to the left under a transformation. Look for patterns and practice extending that pattern.

Will these things raise your IQ? That's a matter of debate. Many will say that it won't raise your IQ but that it will raise your score on IQ tests. Some will say that it's artificial, but to the extent that it improves your capabilities in writing reports, in interacting with others, and in understanding the world around you does it matter how "artificial" it is?

 

[yahoo40]

"... can’t open the page “http://www.luminosity.com/” because the server where this page is located isn’t responding."

The POWER of TERB!

He thinks he is getting smarter but he can't even spell the website correct from where he is getting all his smartness

correct link

http://www.lumosity.com/

 

[Aardvark154]

You mean the one issued out recently for doing nothing?Gyaod Baltar.

Good point Gyaos. I meant one of the Stockholm prizes, not the Oslo prize.

 

[Aardvark154]

Also May, I hope my first post didn't come across as too sarcastic - which it may have.

My point was as others have spelled out, we don't have any idea how to make someone "more intelligent." Intelligence is of course an entirely different thing from education.

 

[anon1]

Smart is knowing something you've been taught.
Intelligent is knowing something you haven't been taught.

 

[Yoga Face]

There is a Nintendo game called Brain Age that claims to do just that

 

[C Dick]

In my early 20's, I took an IQ test and scored 145..... I intent to be a student all my life.

Normally I do not mock posters for incorrect spelling or use of English, since mine is not perfect, and it is annoying. But in a posting in which someone is bragging about their IQ, how could I resist? Perhaps you intend to be a student all your life? Sorry.

Also, my IQ is 160. And my penis is 8" long. I'm just saying.

 

[dreamblade]

Normally I do not mock posters for incorrect spelling or use of English, since mine is not perfect, and it is annoying. But in a posting in which someone is bragging about their IQ, how could I resist? Perhaps you intend to be a student all your life? Sorry.

Also, my IQ is 160. And my penis is 8" long. I'm just saying.

So you're bitching about a typo? Yes, that's smart.

For the record, I wasn't bragging, just stating my test scores.

 

[legatto]

So how can I increase my IQ level? (the ability to learn new information, to fully understand it and to do it quickly)

You could try taking improv classes.

 

[canada-man]

the first step is to stop listening to and watching hollywood american trash

 

[Mencken]

yep

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8303922.stm

here's a 2 year old with an IQ so high it couldn't be measured since the scale only goes to 160

It is silly to try to measure the IQ of a 2 year old. IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient, and the mathematical formula includes chronological age (for children up to young adult anyway). The margin of error for low ages is extremely high...and the test results are probably close to meaningless.

Also, I think IQ tests are more about problem solving and reasoning than they are about memory or ability to learn. You can score very high on the tests but still have a very limited ability to learn because of memory or attention issues. There are folks with very high IQ's that could never complete a degree...and there are some with average to below average that can.

 

[landscaper]

Dude, the vitamins are from the 4 peas and 6 corn nibblets you got while you were DATYing!



The last guy barfed!

Oh MYYYYYYY............

 

[landscaper]

the quickest way to improve overall I.Q. on the planet would be to take all the politicians out and shoot them, 5 points up on the average there along, follow them with the lawyers, and before anybody points this out if you shoot the smart ass responders on the website it would in fact go down

 

[train]

actually MAY rawIQ has nothing to do with education

I believe May already acknowledged that in the initial post.

I'm not sure how you increase your IQ although I have seen several newspaper articles claiming that playing word or number games ( crosswords or sudoku for example) slow down the onset of alzheimers by "exercising" your brain. Perhaps if your developmental years they would also have some positive impact.

 

[Master Muse]

160 IQ?? Doubtful unless

I'm almost positive that the highest anyone can score on an IQ test is 160. Unless Canada has a different scoring system, one of our posters is either incredibly intelligent or mistaken[?]. If true and he has an 8" penis, he should sstep forth as the perfect specimen.