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Literally a way to make your IQ higher

Does it work? Can one find a training result which generalis...
Filthy feces locus
  11/19/17


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Date: November 19th, 2017 3:13 AM
Author: Filthy feces locus

Does it work? Can one find a training result which generalises from a specific skill to general intelligence?

There is one technique which has come up with promising results. Under the acronym of N-back it combines plausibility with enormous effort, the key requirements of fanaticism. As an aside, any person who volunteers for a demanding and pointless task has to deal with cognitive dissonance: either “the task was useless and I am an idiot for having persisted with it OR the task seemed useless but I derived great benefit from it”. In Social Psychology this dilemma is called effort justification. Make the entry ritual to a group absolutely disgusting (humiliation, abasement and ingestion of foul substances) and the poor victims value membership more highly than if entry is a formality. Useless psychological therapies have their committed adherents, particularly when the premises are silly and the sessions are expensive. Even training women in a pointless monitoring task helps them lose weight, presumably because they have to justify their efforts, and might as well do so by sticking to the recommended diets.

http://www.unz.com/jthompson/how-to-boost-your-iq_26/



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