TOP 2 IQ Percentile Re: [extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour?

[Herb Martin]

> What does it mean ENTP? And ENTJ?
> s.
> 
> PS: My score, in any IQ test, would be
>     negative, I suppose. Since I need
>     a lot of time to answer to every single
>     question. Usually I get many different,
>     but (imo) also consistent answers to every 
>     question. So I have to sort these answers. 
>     Which is the best, the more likely? 
>     Difficult task. It takes a lot of time. 
>     A sort of undecidability. 
>     I was tested long time ago, as a student, 
>     with the rest of the (physics) class. 
>     It was a very long test. About 2 hours time. 
>     But they did not publish the scores. 
>     So we all thought those scores were low.

Some IQ tests are given in whole, or in part, by
a trained psychology or psychometrician to eliminate,
or at least ameliorate, problems with reading, and 
such multiple choice exams.

The first test I took, was an individually administered
Stanford-Binet given entirely by a psychometrician.

This is very common with young children -- my daughter
was tested at age 4 (because the state in which we
lived had programs which required the state offer assistance
with her education if she was identified as gifted)
It was given partly by such a profession, and (IIRC) 
partly in standardized form.

In reference to this thread in general:  What do each of
you DO to increase you IQ score, or if you prefer your
ability to learn, remember, reason, judge, plan, and 
perform other mental task normally claimed to be measured
by IQ?

Do you take any actions?  What are they?  Do they work?
Which work best?  Or worst if they are touted as useful?

Speed-reading, mnemonics, NLP (especially modeling), 
study of math (even in middle age), science and continued
efforts to learn to program better (even though I have
long been a professional programmer) are SOME of the
things that I regularly do and practice.

Lately, I have been applying these techniques in learning
Spanish and Arabic, and developing a personal system for
learning languages in general.   Over the last year
I made more progress in each of these languages than I 
had made in 4 years of high school French or two years
living in Germany (and actively studying the language
but while living among Americans.)

My German was "useful" but within 3 months this method
I developed had me reading entire novels completely in
Spanish (with no prior study):  all of the Harry Potter
novels, and then "The DaVinci Code".  By the end, I
was reading nearly as well as my English "slow reading" 
ability (i.e., non-Speed Reading) but with the need 
to look up a few more words in the dictionary.

Keep learning.  Keep growing.

This is a large part of the dream of transhumanity;
to be able to augment our wetware with hardware, software,
and other intelligence prosthetics.


--
Herb Martin