http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-yourself-smarter.htmlCan You Make Yourself Smarter?
By Dan Hurley
New York Times
April 18, 2012
The following data is from a sidebar of the article:
'What Your I.Q. Means
116+
17 percent of the world population; superior I.Q.; appropriate average for individuals in professional occupations.
121+
10 percent; potentially gifted; average for college graduates
132+
2 percent; borderline genius; average I.Q. of most Ph.D. recipients
143+
1 percent; genius level; about average for Ph.D.'s in physics
158+
1 in 10,000; Nobel Prize winners
164+
1 in 30,000; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the chess champion Bobby Fischer.'
The article discusses "N-back" training, which has been discussed in a previous thread
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....cs/104740/Boot_Camp_for_Boosting_IQ.html .
One's productivity depends on what one knows (crystallized intelligence) and one's fluid intelligence (and of course on other factors). Are students better off spending 30 minutes a day on N-back training or on reading a book or doing math problems? The latter two activities increase crystallized intelligence, and maybe the mental stimulation temporarily boosts fluid intelligence by a small amount.
