I have the same IQ than Kasparov, He is millionarie and famous and I'm a moron that have to spend almost all his day coding for food.
This is a good proof that IQ tests do not work!!!! :-P --- Aidan Karley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike > Olsson > wrote: > > This is a bit off topic, but I am wondering if a > person can play Go > > to increase their IQ or improve their > intelligence. > If one is going to discuss the extremely > slippy concept of > "intelligence" (or it's far, far slippier distant > relative > "Intelligence Quotient"), then it's practically > required to have read > Stephen Jay Gould's "Mismeasure of Man" (various > editions from about > 1980 to at least 1996, including ISBN-10: 0393314251 > / ISBN-13: > 978-0393314250). While it may not "blow out of the > water" the whole > subject of "intelligence testing", it does make one > very well aware > that the whole subject is a minefield of assumptions > and prejudices > (both conscious and unconscious. > I read what was probably the original edition > back in the > mid-80s, and loaned my copy to a university friend > who was studying > psychology ; 15 year later she declined to return it > because she was > still regularly using it to deflate novice > opinionated staff working > under her with the "learning impaired". That would > have been about the > time of the infamously neo-racist tract "The Bell > Curve". > > > From what I have read Kasparov's IQ is around 135 > so playing Chess > > doesn't really increase a person's IQ. > > > About 2.3 standard deviations above the norm. > That would imply > he's in the top 1½% or thereabouts of the population > in performance on > IQ tests. Sounds like there's be 3 > Kasparov-equivalents per couple of > full "Clapham Omnibuses". [Note 1] Or several per > average chess club. > Or maybe IQ test results are not a terribly good > predictor of chess > strength. I wouldn't really expect it to be much > better a predictor of > Go strength either. > > > For what it's worth, the Aberdeen University > Go Club was set up > in the early 1980s by ... a carpenter. Always a good > memory for > deflating one's potential to self-aggrandisment. > > > [Note 1] Standard British English idiom refers many > questions to the > opinion of the "man on the Clapham Omnibus", which > seats about 75 > people and stands another couple of dozen. > > -- > Aidan Karley, > Aberdeen, Scotland > Written at Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:40 GMT, but posted > later. > > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
