# Can person IQ be improved? And why is science not looking into it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 9, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-person-iq-be-improved-and-why-is-science-not-looking-into-it/930127 "2021-01-09T15:22:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-person-iq-be-improved-and-why-is-science-not-looking-into-it/930127/7 "2021-01-09T16:54:22Z")
Try reading this thread from ~3 months ago: > [@Can IQ be increased?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-iq-be-increased/923635): > > My search results yielded no answers, so I’m going to ask here: Can someone increase their IQ with effort? I was told years ago by someone far smarter than myself that you are pretty much born with your IQ. He basically laid it out as your IQ is your ability to learn, not necessarily how smart you are right now. Is that true? I feel like I’m 200% smarter now than I was 20 years ago, even if I thought I knew it all back then. I have a good ability to research and learn things, and a good abilit… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-person-iq-be-improved-and-why-is-science-not-looking-into-it/930127)._