Assess thyself

[Kiki]

OMG
My new magazine.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Wish I still had the level of verbal ability that I once had.

Also, this is BS:

Sure, one can get better at specific tasks via practice, but that reduces their g loading. The gains don't transfer to other, unique tasks.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Also kinda BS:

General intelligence is a complex polygenic trait. Once one reaches adulthood, it's unlikely to change significantly (relative to one's age group) unless the brain somehow becomes damaged. And if one does experience an apparent gain in cognitive ability after implementing some kind of lifestyle change (excluding training), it's likely that the latent ability was always there, and that they simply improved their ability to perform on tests by getting better sleep or whatever. Gains due to training are also not representative of gains in underlying ability, as I mentioned in my previous post.

 

[Kiki]

Also kinda BS:
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General intelligence is a complex polygenic trait. Once one reaches adulthood, it's unlikely to change significantly (relative to one's age group) unless the brain somehow becomes damaged. And if one does experience an apparent gain in cognitive ability after implementing some kind of lifestyle change (excluding training), it's likely that the latent ability was always there, and that they simply improved their ability to perform on tests by getting better sleep or whatever. Gains due to training are also not representative of gains in underlying ability, as I mentioned in my previous post.

I haven't even sat down to look at the magazine yet.
I'm going to read it all and then I'm going to mail it to you.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Pseudoscientific claims will only give me a stroke, thereby making my cognition worse

 

[Kiki]

Pseudoscientific claims will only give me a stroke, thereby making my cognition worse

You should be a comedian.

 

[Kiki]

Hmm

 

[Kiki]

Don't tell me this page is bull too.

 

[chickentrains]

Could somebody explain?

PSYCHOPATHY?!?!

 

[CarpCharacin]

Don't tell me this page is bull too.
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It sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't speak English all that fluently. I also don't have much respect for Howard Gardner's "theory", many of the "intelligences" that he postulates aren't even cognitive abilities. For example, being able to work well with others has more to do with personality than cognitive ability. I think he's also argued that the correlations seen between tests measuring disparate cognitive abilities are simply do to the fact that each test employs language to some degree, which really does seem like a BS argument. There are plenty of nonverbal tests with very simple instructions, and the correlations between those and other, more language-heavy tests are far too strong to be explained by an ancillary loading on verbal ability.

And I've already addressed the bit about training.

I think the main issue is that many people have different definitions of "intelligence", and many of those definitions include traits which aren't cognitive abilities. I think that intelligence is best defined as cognitive ability, not learned skills or personality traits. It's dumb to create and / or promote a "theory" which lumps cognitive and non-cognitive traits together as "intelligence".