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    Default Wiki re: IQs

    Here's the wiki re: Intelligence quotient:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

    Here's a bonus wiki, on Luck:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck

    Here's an old thread re: wiki on Stupidity:

    http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/sh...y-on-stupidity
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    When I googled "how to raise your iq", Google's stock (first) answer was:

    "Here are five ways, but it really all boils down to stretching your brain by learning new things:

    1.Become a renaissance man. Or woman. ...
    2.Play the brain game Dual N-Back. Do this 20 minutes a day. ...
    3.Do regular high cardio exercise. ...
    4.Learn an instrument. ...
    5.Buy the book Boost Your IQ by Carolyn Skitt, and play all the games.

    May 22, 2015"
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    You forgot, "Play chess."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir Drkulec View Post
    You forgot, "Play chess."
    True, Google's answer didn't specify that one; Google's stock answer to your suggestion is:

    "It can raise your IQ
    At least one study has shown that moving those knights and rooks around can in fact raise a person's intelligence quotient. A study of 4,000 Venezuelan students produced significant rises in the IQ scores of both boys and girls after 4 months of chess instruction. May 26, 2017"
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    Fwiw, here's an article in WIRED called wired.com/story/Forget MENSA! - All hail the low IQ:

    https://www.wired.com/story/forget-m...il-the-low-iq/
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    mensacanada.org:

    https://www.mensacanada.org/
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    Here's the wiki re: Carl Sagan (astronomer - one person that had a high IQ, no doubt):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
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    Related topics, perhaps:
    newsweek.com/Suspect in McDonald's Fries Shooting Confesses to Unsolved Murder: Police [there's something spiritually wrong in US with so many shootings; if people don't go to church more and continue to believe exclusively in science then I'd say why not have psychiatric exams every year for everyone, or at least any mental history knowable for gun purchases - maybe barring a purchase for those with an IQ below a certain level, also (could be good restrictions for voting rights/political candidacy possibly as well - can't be worse than, at worst, what e.g. gerrymandering does in US)]:

    https://www.newsweek.com/suspect-mcd...w-york-1730888

    macleans.ca/news/canada/The politics of IQ [Squabbling persists over who's smarter, liberals or conservatives.; I'd add that in the age of Trudeau, who has stoners and swooning young women voting for him, these days the answer seems clear.]

    https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-politics-of-iq/
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