Message from @>Cytos, de lieve goede synth
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most of the time they are the result of some form of brain damage
sometimes birth defects
and they are VERY succcessful in a very tiny tiny field
like for example a person that can tell you the day of the week for any date you give him
BUT
he wont be able to perform simple addition subtraction maths
even though both of those tasks, for cognitive 'normals' involve the same process
now lets go a little bit more controversial
twin studies
you take genetic twins
they are adopted
one goes to a upperclass household, the other to a middle class household for example
then measure their IQ when they are adults
they have the same genes (read: nature) but different environments (read: nurture)
the higher class people tended to have higher IQs, but class only accounts for 20-50% of the difference , depending on the studies
so yes, taking a baby and dropping it in the desert will effect its IQ, to use Tims analogy
but taking that same baby and putting it in a rich family will increase its IQ, but depending on its genetic background
aka if you have less genes that result is less smarts, even putting you in a rich household will not make you just as smart as the other people in the same kind of households
rather yet, if you want more high IQ people, the best solution is to let rich people adopts the highest IQ babies
over the less high IQ ones
and benefit society as a whole more
how does one measure the IQ of a baby?
like i said earlier
IQ is a measurement of general inteligence
so you make the babies compete in cognitive tasks
for example
yes, but like what? can it find the tit on its own?
nah thats all nurture pretty much, they can suck tiddy from the getgo
they can also grasp from the getgo
at what age do these tests count?
as soon as they can do a trick pretty much
there are some tricks we all learn as babies
like object permanence
the faster a baby understands object permanence, the higher its IQ is projected to be, if it does not eat any lead paint while growing up
although its IQ will likely still be higher then those that understand object permanence later, and consume the same amount of lead paint
on average
so no toys made in china
a other more simpler test
is to put a lil sticky ball on the forhead of the baby, that it cant sense cause of weight of feeling or anything
and then put the baby infront of a mirror