Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings!

A very metaphysical statement and quite hard to explain the difference between telling untruths and writing, or telling, stories to entertain.

Good luck with explaining the difference.

P.S. I would love to discuss things with the lad as he's growing up. Minds like that can be developed to want to know answers and to help the expansion of knowledge.

 

This also brings to mind the validity, or not, of TV programmes such as the very recent one "Child Genius". Do you, or don't you, try to encourage and develop the minds and the seeking of knowledge of those that can and want to learn?

A very recent book has come out showing evidence (debatable) that IQ doesn't stop developing at age 18 (up to now that has been the accepted premise) but can be developed up to 10 points higher by active minds and, to a certain extent, bodies. Conversely, it can reduce by up to ten points. So a total difference of 20 points is a significant amount on the Cattell Culture Fair iii (a) scale and even on the Cattell iii (b) scale.

If I haven't lost all of you by now , they also say that the average IQ has been rising by 3 points per decade since 1980.

The (b) test asks questions that are aimed are people who have been educated to Western standards and measures your ability to understand words and concepts and do some mathematical calculations. They're not too difficult until you realise that you have limited time in which to do them.

The Culture Fair (a) test doesn't rely on educational matters and is based on visual ideas.

Although measuring IQ bears some relevance to intelligence I argue that it actually tests how good you are at doing tests!!

Sorry if I've not explained it well enough