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you cant increase your inteligence but practise the tests and you can improve your IQ score by a little bit
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Your IQ, your base intelligence can't be changed. However, you can augment it with common-sense, factual knowledge and verbal prowess.
The best way to increase your IQ is to practise doing IQ tests.

Everyone knows its not really a test of intelligents
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halfoflessthan50p
The best way to increase your IQ is to practise doing IQ tests.

Everyone knows its not really a test of intelligents

Yeah...
Why do people think it cants be increased? research has shown that doing excersize regularly increases your IQ by 15 points, and using your brain ie reading, working genraly doing things that require thought, will raise your IQ and keep it higher.

If muscles can get bigger when you strain them, they why cants you brain 'get more clever'
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Yeah i agree with Titanium.
"things which require thought" can also be interms of soemthing like a chess?
Can u all name some things to do to increase IQ
If i want to read, about wat should i read? Physcology? i duno.. need help..
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Perhaps there is some base intelligence innate to people, perhaps that cannot change, some people are more likely to understand quantum mechanics than other people, for example.

Your question is misguided. IQ is a social constrcution, a social interpretation of intelligence. There has been a LOT of research on it in sociology and other social sciences and most say that IQ and IQ tests are more about 'cultural competence' than intelligence.

You may have heard that black people do worse off in IQ tests statistically, the same applies to a few other minority groups too. This is not necessarily because they are dumb or are naturally less intelligent (I abhore such explanations). But rather, because the people who make the tests are predominantly white and middle class, giving cultural presuppositions that people who aren't white or middle class may not understand.

But to change your question, how do you want to be more intelligent? Here are a few things you can study:

Logic - the science of arguments
Various branches of mathematics - mathematics unveils the structure of the world in an abstract way, it makes you think abstractly - mathematics leads to the natural sciences and is much more fundamental than that.
Social sciences - developments in social science reveal a lot about what human beings just took for granted and places it in flux. issues that open your mind in social science involve:

'Nature or nurture debate' (psychology)
'Homo economicus and rational choice theory' (Economics)
'The social construction of the norms we take for granted' (Sociology)
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Thankyou SO much, i was perhaps looking for an answer like that. Thankyou again. Can i pm u if u dont mind? I wont bother u much, jus want to talk !
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Things you can do on a daily basis to increase your IQ:

- Read a good paper - (i.e. The Times/Guardian)
- Do Su Doku - logic puzzles etc.
- Read Books like "The Armchair Economist" - its about economics, but centres on peoples attitudes and behaviour. It helps you develop a way of thinking about problems. Its quite basic, but well worth a read.

- Listen to a wide selection of music.
- Think about starting to learn a foreign language.

All of these things "exercise" different parts of the brain, and will increase your IQ!
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usman_s
Thankyou SO much, i was perhaps looking for an answer like that. Thankyou again. Can i pm u if u dont mind? I wont bother u much, jus want to talk !


Sure, pm me any time. I want to help people enrich themselves without forcing facts into them.
usman_s
Yeah i agree with Titanium.
"things which require thought" can also be interms of soemthing like a chess?
Can u all name some things to do to increase IQ
If i want to read, about wat should i read? Physcology? i duno.. need help..


chess would

read anything that makes you think, so something that is hard to understand like cosmology!
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Thanks everyone, im all sorted now.
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have red bull: it increases gamma patternsin your brain, so your memory is heightend
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r u sure?
I read 'ten not so easy pieces- Richard Feynman' and 'Chaos-(somebody) Gleick' for my uni interviews they defiantely made me think. I reckon stuff like relativity, chaos theory is interesting enough so that you dont get bored and its complicated enough that it makes you think in ways you havent before. Im reading 'the selfish gene- Richard Dawkins' and 'Ariel- Sylvia Plath' at the moment (and the poetry is by far the most complicated btw :biggrin:)

You could try learning an instrument. Music theory is actually really complicated (at least i thought it was) and playing an instrument does a lot for youre creativity and general thinking in a non-logical way skills (not the right words at all lol, u know what i mean though)
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That brain game for nintendo ds :smile:
LOL. IQ is logic. End.