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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
This is an interesting issue in itself. Intelligence is SUPPOSED to be this inherent thing detected by IQ tests. Someone made it up as a concept, then found evidence for its existence.
IQ tests measure your ability to figure things out, not what or how much you know.

Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Education and intelligence are two different things... AFAIK, there's evidence that education makes people more intelligent (while most of us think that you need to be intelligent to receive proper education.)
Of course they're different (but related) things. Regardless, not everyone has the same capacity to learn. And our ability to learn changes with age as well. Lot of variables involved here. No one size fits all.
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