Originally posted by jebster
Really? Why not? Shouldn't your IQ be higher if you've gone to college?😕

College offers you education.

Intelligence is defined as:
1) The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.
2) The faculty of thought and reason.
from http://www.dictionary.com

Education is defined as:
The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.
from http://www.dictionary.com

Since intelligence is the capacity, or faculty, for something and education is a knowledge or skill education does not affect intelligence.

It just makes sense that capacity is not affected by application. So while education is an application of intelligence it does not affect intelligence.

To draw a parrallel if I have two 8 once glasses and one is empty while one is full it doesn't change the fact that they are both 8 ounce glasses.

    Most of what you can learn in college, you could learn outside of college also. Be it on the internet, in a book, taught from a friend/collegue, etc. You just don't get that nifty piece of paper at the end claiming you know it. You also don't get the debt, so depending on your employers needs, it could even itself out 😃

      I think college does teach you to think rationally, but agreed it's nothing you can't learn in the 'real world'.

      Also you should look at EQ tests as well as IQ tests, it's been said that IQ tests bear no relation to reality 😉

        Originally posted by drawmack
        To draw a parrallel if I have two 8 once glasses and one is empty while one is full it doesn't change the fact that they are both 8 ounce glasses.

        But does the fact that one is full affect the fact that one is empty? 😃

          Originally posted by Shrike
          Also you should look at EQ tests as well as IQ tests, it's been said that IQ tests bear no relation to reality 😉

          Everquest has tests?!

          ... 😃

            For the record I never said you coldn't learn the same things out of college that you learn in college. Though I must admit, I never would have learned how to pull an all night cram session in the real world.

              Originally posted by drawmack
              College offers you education.

              Intelligence is defined as:
              1) The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.
              2) The faculty of thought and reason.
              from http://www.dictionary.com

              Education is defined as:
              The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.
              from http://www.dictionary.com

              Since intelligence is the capacity, or faculty, for something and education is a knowledge or skill education does not affect intelligence.

              It just makes sense that capacity is not affected by application. So while education is an application of intelligence it does not affect intelligence.

              To draw a parrallel if I have two 8 once glasses and one is empty while one is full it doesn't change the fact that they are both 8 ounce glasses.

              So a person that didn't even finish high school could have a high IQ? 😕

                Someone who didn't finish grade school could have a high IQ.

                Look at it like this: did you go to school to learn php? Probably not. But you still learned it and probably got pretty good at it. Apply that same learning ability to math, history, english, whatever, and you'll see that school is nothing special. It may help you learn, but it isn't the only way.

                  Originally posted by jebster
                  So a person that didn't even finish high school could have a high IQ? 😕

                  I'm a high school drop out and before I went to college my IQ was 148. Schooling has to do with using intelligence, where is intelligence is just ability.

                    Y'know, IQ was developed for measuring the intellectual abilities of children by comparing their "intellectual brainpower" with that of an average child. The ratio being IQ/100, of course.

                    So what does this mean beyond that? That a twenty-year-old with an IQ of 200 has the mind of a forty-year-old? Like that's a good thing?

                    drawmack - had your IQ tested since college? 🙂

                      Originally posted by Weedpacket
                      drawmack - had your IQ tested since college? 🙂 [/B]

                      Yeah it went up 10 points.

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