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Originally Posted by Tiger_vs_Mantis
many of those IQ tests are based on modes of thought that, once you have been introduced to them, make it easier to score higher on subsequent tests, so scoring higher on these tests doesn't mean you are really getting smarter. now that i have taken so many of these test I know that anytime I see a number I shouldn't just think of it as a pure number, but I also think of other things, like how that number is spelled, or ignoring the numeric value and concentrating only on its symbolic representation. thinking this way has almost no real benefit in real-life problem solving in my experience, so that is why I say that becoming familiar with these modes of thought doesn't equate to being smarter
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Your correct. But I believe it only contributes to a certain degree. I first took those online iq tests over 5 years ago scoring similar between tests with some outliers of course. But there was no upward trend in scores as would be expected by myself consistently practicing them. . This summer I was bored and unemployed so I took a new crop of them with many questions I never seen before, and I scored much higher on these than before. I think one large reason was because of my engineering education. It challenged my mind and taught me a lot of thinking skills. It also greatly improved my math and problem solving skills. I bought a logic workbook a few months ago and my logical reasoning is a lot better now. My verbal skills still suck though but I believe its because its been untrained. But anyways I believe IQ tests are a good way of tracking your progress. They might have flaws but if over a lifetime, for example, you see a decline in IQ scores than you can assume your mental capacities are in decline.