From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:07:33 -0800 (PST)
To: dthorn@gte.net (Dale Thorn)
Subject: Re: IQ and age
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Dale Thorn wrote:
> The biggest influence on IQ are the so-called "engrams" (fears, super-
> stitions, anxieties, etc.) planted in your brain early in life.
> 
> Some of this can be overcome with mental exercise, and awareness of what
> negative influences are holding you back.  Much easier said than done!
> 
> IQ as they attempt to measure it can probably be most easily explained
> as pattern matching skills. Unfortunately for testing, and although you
> can be every bit as intelligent at 70 as at 10, your pattern-matching
> skills change and evolve over time, so any given tests will only apply
> (more or less) at the age group they are optimized for.
> 

Would you dismiss strong correlations between IQ and success in life 
and academia as something irrelevant?

	- Igor.