Can a persons IQ be increased?

Answer 1

I.Q. stands for intelligence quotient, a number that is a measurement of a person's ability to learn and retain knowledge, not the amount of knowledge they retain. Most experts agree that there are a number of variables that can help determine a person's IQ including genetics, disease, and nutrition during early formative years of the brain (up to years age 3-5). It is also believe by many that the amount and type of intellectual activity during these years affects a child's potential to learn and adult IQ. Finally as a child and as a adult learning ability is often effected by health, disease, and psychological dysfunction, such as chronic fatigue, ADHD, and Alzheimer's. These are generally viewed as inhibiting factors lowering a person's ability to fulfill their potential, rather than a lack of potential.

In closing depending on your personal point of view, of gain vs released potential, raising an individuals IQ is or is not possible. During developmental years it can be released or raised up to a person's genetic limitation, and during later years correcting issues with ones health may result in a "increase". in ones ability to learn. However a person that is not suffer from some debilitation (however mild) should not expect to raise their IQ.

Answer 2

Yes, definitely.

If you mean IQ as an IQ: it is not a valid test at all! But, yes, you can slightly increase your score on the tests if you practice.

If you mean IQ as intelligence: yes, you can do that too.

Wouldn't the world be a sad place if you couldn't?

Human brain is still a mystery: although we use only a few % of it, we don't even know how those few function.

For further research on the subject, and even practical tips on how to do it (increase your intelligence), look for Tony Buzan's books.

You can do whatever you want.

Answer 3

In my opinion IQ tests measure your ability to take tests. They are also culturally biased. Given that, it is very possible to learn those skills and score higher on an IQ test.

To the philosophical question, of whether a person's real intelligence can be increased, the answer is still yes. Life, and learning from life's experiences makes us smarter. If we chose to make everything we experience an opportunity to learn we will get smarter all the time. Book learning is good, and important, but intelligence is more than the ability to score well on tests, or memorize texts, it is the ability to make the best of what life presents us.

Answer 4

Not really - IQ stands for Intellegence Quotient or rather your potential to learn. You may with avid study increase by up to 5 points but not more than that.
Think of it as knowing how a large a glass you have you cant expand the glasses size. But you can you fill it to its utmost. IQ is your capability to learn - not what you've learned. and while IQ is important to an extent its your EQ- Emotional Quotient, that gets you promotions and gains you friends.

Answer 5

Of course, it's called studying and wanting to learn, After all IQ is measured by how much you know and you can always learn if you really want to. Read newspapers, books, watch CNN on TV.
Reading is probably the best way to increase your IQ because everything you read has something in it that will add to your knowledge bank.

Answer 6

Education. I person has to gain as much practical knowledge, rationality, ability to reason, and logic as possible. Some of these things can be taught, others cannot. To qualify as a high IQ you have to be more efficient and effective in these areas than the majority of your "peers." The average IQ is 100, retarded is 70, gifted is 140, and I would be embarrassed to admit anything less than 120 and thankfully I can claim 18 points higher than that.

Answer 7

I believe a person's IQ can be changed. With increased knowledge, it would only seem logical that someones IQ would increase. However, that's not the case for everyone, given how they use their knowledge to benefit or not benefit them, and the others around them.

Answer 8

Hypothetically, it's possible, by definition, I'd say no, and in all practicality it really doesn't matter.

IQ is more or less a statistic related to how EASILY you'll be able to learn etc. and is by no means directly relative to how intelligent or capable someone CAN be.

Answer 9

couple of ways-

1. add an offset to the IQ results.
2. Come up with a modified way to measure IQ

Answer 10

yes by reading and learning to think logically the modern IQ test seems rather biased towards th euro/american mind set for example questions based around things like tennis would have no validity to an african bushman living in the wild