Can Go be used to increase a person's aptitude.
Chris Fant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Getting way off topic now.
On 1/16/07, Mike Olsson wrote:
> Another question that I would like to ask is what distinguishes a student at
> Harvard or at a top school from the rest of the students. And how can one
> develop the aptitude to reach that level. Or is it just that some people are
> born with a gift.
>
> Eduardo Sabbatella wrote:
> I have the same IQ than Kasparov, He is millionarie
> and famous and I'm a moron that have to spend almost
> all his day coding for food.
>
> This is a good proof that IQ tests do not work!!!!
>
> :-P
>
> --- Aidan Karley escribió:
>
>
> > In article
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike
> > Olsson
> > wrote:
> > > This is a bit off topic, but I am wondering if a
> > person can play Go
> > > to increase their IQ or improve their
> > intelligence.
> > If one is going to discuss the extremely
> > slippy concept of
> > "intelligence" (or it's far, far slippier distant
> > relative
> > "Intelligence Quotient"), then it's practically
> > required to have read
> > Stephen Jay Gould's "Mismeasure of Man" (various
> > editions from about
> > 1980 to at least 1996, including ISBN-10: 0393314251
> > / ISBN-13:
> > 978-0393314250). While it may not "blow out of the
> > water" the whole
> > subject of "intelligence testing", it does make one
> > very well aware
> > that the whole subject is a minefield of assumptions
> > and prejudices
> > (both conscious and unconscious.
> > I read what was probably the original edition
> > back in the
> > mid-80s, and loaned my copy to a university friend
> > who was studying
> > psychology ; 15 year later she declined to return it
> > because she was
> > still regularly using it to deflate novice
> > opinionated staff working
> > under her with the "learning impaired". That would
> > have been about the
> > time of the infamously neo-racist tract "The Bell
> > Curve".
> >
> > > From what I have read Kasparov's IQ is around 135
> > so playing Chess
> > > doesn't really increase a person's IQ.
> > >
> > About 2.3 standard deviations above the norm.
> > That would imply
> > he's in the top 1½% or thereabouts of the population
> > in performance on
> > IQ tests. Sounds like there's be 3
> > Kasparov-equivalents per couple of
> > full "Clapham Omnibuses". [Note 1] Or several per
> > average chess club.
> > Or maybe IQ test results are not a terribly good
> > predictor of chess
> > strength. I wouldn't really expect it to be much
> > better a predictor of
> > Go strength either.
> >
> >
> > For what it's worth, the Aberdeen University
> > Go Club was set up
> > in the early 1980s by ... a carpenter. Always a good
> > memory for
> > deflating one's potential to self-aggrandisment.
> >
> >
> > [Note 1] Standard British English idiom refers many
> > questions to the
> > opinion of the "man on the Clapham Omnibus", which
> > seats about 75
> > people and stands another couple of dozen.
> >
> > --
> > Aidan Karley,
> > Aberdeen, Scotland
> > Written at Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:40 GMT, but posted
> > later.
> >
> >
> >
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