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Originally Posted by VTJas81
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.
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I think 5 years is a reasonable amount of time for you to have fully absorbed the new ways of thinking that you were being exposed to when you were taking all of those IQ tests.
your engineering education might explain why you are good at IQ tests, but does it explain why your score changed over time?
declining IQ scores does not imply declining mental capacities, not overall anyway. it could mean that your brain is dedicated to different ways of thinking at the time. even more likely is that the nature of the test has changed over time. past tests might have been weighted more towards verbal skills and later tests might be more weighted towards math.