>>11460088>You can't increase intelligence but you can increase IQThis is actually a piece of philosophically and methodologically untenable popsci nonsense. I don't personally know much about the topic of heritability and intelligence, but I do know enough about cognitive science in general to say that's bullshit. They're saying that, ex hypothesis, we have no way to directly measure "general intelligence", but we're stipulating that it can't be changed, even though, again we don't have a baseline against which to compare any alleged changes in intelligence, since we have already stipulated that it's impossible to do so. At the same time, the claim is being made that even though youu can't directly measure "General intelligence", you can still accurately measure and track changes in performance in domain-specific cognitive function, and interesting performance along those individual domains can change, but once again, we're stipulating that such a change cannot be indicative of any global property of "general intelligence".
Utter nonsense, and I can't imagine anyone printing something like that in a contemporary cognitive science journal of monograph. Maybe in some sort of dumbed down publication for educators or clinical psychologists or social workers or something, but there is no way that sort of claim would make it past peer review in an actual cog sci or evo psych journal..
