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Not sure how challenging you'll find it, but there's a series of puzzle games called the room that I've found to be very worth their price. Fun little puzzle games.
Not sure if this would be helpful for you, but if you are looking for ways to practice, the Daily IQ Tests app is a pretty great method to improve yourself.
I hadn't heard about this and it saddens me. Apparently he died in April. 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' literally changed the way I looked at life forever and I had always hoped to meet him one day.
The book completely reshaped my thought process in ways I had never possible and to this day I tend to look at things through a window of classic/romantic dualism. If you haven't read it and still have enough of an open mind, I would strongly suggest reading it. For those who don't know, Pirsig had an estimated IQ of 170, yet was kicked out of University of Minnesota for failing grades. He was schizophrenic and spent time in a mental hospital.
Compact and practical:
The other, recommended book has 336 pages as mentioned
So more options and points of view enabling probably some kind of blend anecdotally and the more I figured out and different aspects arose the ever more consistent it was. Although it already struck me kind of near the beginning of the first video from YouTube's recommendations, i.e. without having searched for it and on day 40 of oneitis. Didn't end it though, despite intellectually understanding it, yet that coevolved temporary loss of emotional control nobody ever warned me off.
People aren’t joining organizations in general. I also belong to the VFW and they’re struggling the same way. There’s an outstanding book about how people just aren’t joining clubs any organizations I would suggest.
Well if you think 40 years is too long ago... I'm reading a book from about one hundred years ago by Charles Spearman. He tried to clear up confusion by experts and provide ways to detect g and s (general and specific, in his book).
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087JDJDRR/
Spearman looked at "tetrad differences", which I take to be the correlations between different tests that are not explained by the general factor. According to that book, a missing general factor suggests intelligence isn't part of the test.
Obviously you're using the average dictionary. We use the superior persons book of words.
I don’t have the book anymore. But it’d be something like this book.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/IQ-Logical-Reasoning-Test-Tests/dp/B091F5Q37L
Scroll down to
> From the Publisher
>Few questions from the book
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reading i think is also pretty important and i don't know if it makes a difference but have you heard of the game "24" i play it whenever I see a set of 4 numbers.
also this is probably a bit out of left field but magic mushrooms?
Usually studies are needed to make a claim, since science establishes what is and what is not. Here you go: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289613000688 This study describes that the goal of ravens advanced progressive matrices is to "measure the unidimensional construct, Gf".
So, as I said, Mensa Norway, which is more or less the same as RAPM, was developed with the intent to measure one construct. That construct is fluid intelligence, which is usually measured by matrix reasoning. The matrix reasoning part of WAIS was developed to capture the same thing that RAPM is capturing, which is fluid intelligence. They are trying to measure the exact same construct, but RAPM is the harder one.
If the above is not evidence enough, you can see this study: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Raven's-is-not-a-pure-measure-of-general-for-g-and-Gignac/cd9c4709e9dcca22e1cab76e05fa23aee32e971d. The pictures at the bottom of the website show the loading of RPM and RAPM on different constructs. RPM and RAPM load on g, Gf and Gv. Since all tests of mental ability load on g, we can exclude that construct. The other 2 cosntructs are Gf and Gv. Not a single study shows RPM/RAPM loading on anything else.
Don't really know if the WAIS subtests are easier due to being more homogenous. I don't even know if they are more homogenous, they are just easier. The reason for that might be because they are trying to measure all IQ-levels, not just those above a certain level.
The role of culture-fair tests are to extrapolate FSIQ? This is true, however every test of mental ability is used to extrapolate FSIQ, that is the whole point of testing mental ability. Culture-fair tests were developed as a way to assess IQ (extrapolate FSIQ) where language/knowledge is a barrier to a fair measure of IQ.
Rant much appreciated!! Yes! This is amazing. I actually have been kind of formulating my own theory of intelligence based on compiling existing information from diverse sources. But yes! Makes so much sense.
I am good at patterns, but many people are better at patterns and puzzles than me. For me the bulk of my “intelligence” I feel lies elsewhere.
I think with a restructuring of the definition of intelligence we can contextualize IQ as measuring a particular aspect as you said… perhaps it would be PRQ (pattern recognition quotient). I don’t know. :)
I would remember that like this:
181 and 110, between is 010 and that last part is opposite the middle.
Also in binary 010 is 2 and 110 is 6 (in case that helps your method).
Have you seen the knuckle method?
https://lifehacker.com/232828/macgyver-tip-use-your-knuckles-to-remember-each-months-days
Two things:
1) If you retook the same test then even after a year there will be a significant inflation in scores. If you truly want the inflation to go down to zero I think you should wait at least five years. I couldn't track down the paper but this one shows there's a big increase on the WAIS-III even when the test-retest interval is 6 months: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bradley_Axelrod/publication/11378629_Practice_effects_on_the_WAIS-III_across_3-and_6-month_intervals/links/550024860cf28e4ac347bf88.pdf . They didn't do anything other than take the WAIS-III, wait 3-6 months, then take it again.
2) You do actually undergo intellectual development as an adolescent (the average 17 year old is smarter than the average 15 year old - IQ tests are actually normed differently for 15 year olds than they are for 17 year olds). In other words, it may be true that you were actually more intelligent, although 6 months may not make much of a difference. Then again it may.
Yeah the discrepancy between your scores would indicate that there could be something else involved, like ad(h)d. If this were a real comprehensive test with a psychologist, they would note that you have significant differences: your spatial and verbal differ significantly, and so does your working memory with everything else. Accounting for those differences may lead a psychologist to conclude that your IQ is closer to just the composite of spatial and verbal IQ, which I assume would be something like 115. So far the best way to improve working memory, that I know of, backed by a meta study, is dual-n-back. Specifically, using the brainworkshop dual-n-back software and putting the interference setting at 100%: http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/
You would need to do this every day for a session. Personally I've been lazy, so I haven't done it consistently enough to see results.
dramaturgy of the melody: 1) Melody is King! - Write melody before lyrics - Build song around it w/o being too complicated - Fit syllables to notes of melody - A line has to have a certain amount of syllables and the next line has to be the mirror image
Chorus pattern example, # of syllables: Line 1 - 5 6 8 <--A B C Line 2 - 5 6 12 <--A B D Line 3 - 5 6 8 <--A B C Line 4 - 5 5 12 <--A B D
2) Chorus within 50 seconds of song start
3) No more than 3 or 4 melodic parts per song - Only introduced one part at a time
4) Recycle melodic parts - Using them repeatedly gets the listener used to the song - You can also use parts of the melody in both verse and chorus - Katy Perry - ET - Had the same 8 bar melody in verse and chorus
5) Create balance - Ying Yang - If verse is sloppy, make chorus a little neater
It sounds like you went through 20 years of wisdom in a short 4 year burst. You stopped playing video games ( waist of your life ).. You argued with people and lost friends.. now you realize sometimes to keep your mouth shut even if your right. I don't know your whole story. But I found programming and 3D arts to be quite engaging ( granted your IQ is higher than mine ) .. I'm sure there is something out there you could get involved in. A girlfriend/wife would help.. And of course if your into philosophy I suggest the Holy Bible. Go to udemy.com and type in something like "deep learning" .. its a bit over my head.. but might be right up your alley. Lots of money to be made.. and lots of studies to be done.
Oh, I just always open a site in a new tab then close the tab afterward. I have it saved as a default option: when I click on a link, it opens it in a new tab.
I also use Google Chrome with the Ad Nauseam extension to block ads
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Try this one. It's very difficult and I'm not sure if the scores are accurate but I did quite poorly. Feels like a real IQ test though. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.paulstelzer.iqtest
The 123 culture fair test is not accurate. I scored 142 on that test and my IQ is more like 127-130. The test I feel has been most accurate for estimating my IQ has been this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.GAMEsPORT.QiPro Download that app and take the free test. Let me know how you do compared to other tests. Also, if you've been practicing a lot of FRT tests lately, your score will be less accurate because of the practice effect.
“The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” by Thomas Kuhn.
“What the Buddha Taught,” by Walpola Rahula.
I know this isn't exactly what you're saying, but just to share with you, in my opinion, having too much empathy causes people to make irrational decisions; it causes people to use poor judgment.
I would rather people be high in intelligence and low in empathy (but not nonexistant) than high in empathy and low in intelligence.
You know what? I have heard about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance but never took the plunge. I find that people are fantastic sorters of the things that they are interested in and so I take both of your recommendations to heart.
In fact I have already saved Seneca's Epistle XIII to desktop.
For my gaming tastes I'm into strategy games and wargames. I read stuff like Clauswitz, Jomini, The Art of War, The Book of Five rings etc.
I'm an extreme introvert so for the first time ever I created a clan in a game called Destiny. THAT'S the game that helped fix my brain.
My hubby saw vast improvements and so tottally supported me playing ALL THE TIME.
However I was subjected to some racism in my clan which I got over, but one day I just had enough and have yet to return.
Now I am playing How to Survive: Storm warning edition (8 bucks on PSN) with my spouse which is really cool because it's coop.
Trust me gaming will keep you brain in shape. Oh! Now I'm playing a lot of Hearthstone since it is free and I play against live opponents. Even scored a couple of friends!
I've considered those programs. They're actually pretty effective with very high acceptance rates into grad schools. I think I remember looking at post-Bachelor's pre-med programs, and they were like a year long but most of them had almost 100% acceptance rates into med school. But that was back when I wanted to be a doctor like half of the undergrad majors in life sciences do.
Probabilistically, if you have a 33% chance of dying in 18 years, your chance of dying any given year is only 2% (on a simple model), so you don't sound that much worse off than Average Joe! So live it up. Sucks about the disability, I know people who have been fighting for years to get on disability, people with things like horribly painful fused spinal discs, etc. Instead they gave the disability to some fatasses who ate McDonald's every day until they couldn't walk anymore.
Whenever I feel like giving up I read Seneca's Epistle XIII and it always gets me psyched. Take all that you want to take from life, and don't stop until you get dragged out clawing at the door. Some people are born with the means to have all they want, and the irony is that they will never feel the satisfaction of struggling to achieve what they want. I also took a lot away from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is a very imperfect but powerful philosophic novel (it's half novel, half philosophy primer).
What are you playing lately? I had a period where I played a lot in childhood, but since about 16 I have been working a lot so I play infrequently (there's a few game series I play though, like MGS). I've been emulating stuff, and I rediscovered a PS2 game called Rogue Galaxy last week, which is actually extremely fun and challenging with a lot of gameplay mechanics to get lost in.