# Can you develop intelligence ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 2, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-develop-intelligence/552435 "2010-09-02T22:09:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-develop-intelligence/552435/81 "2010-09-04T01:14:09Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > > [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > > > There is, of course, one surefire way to raise your own IQ to about 150. > > > > Find 740 people who are dumber than you. Kill everyone on the planet except for them (also, do not kill self). You now have an IQ of approximately 150. > > My method is simple to raise an IQ by 50 points. Act stupid in one test, then take it again. Ruminator seemed to be on to this concept, but even qualified professional psychologists can be fooled. This doesn’t have any bearing on the topic, nor do any Kobayashi Maru type methods. I just got tired of the quibbling. It’s near impossible to qualify every statement to a degree that can’t be quibbled with. That does have bearing on the topic. It is called malingering. Stop making statistical shit up if you have never taken a calss in statistics. 1 - The score you get on a test is not your actual intelligence, it is an estimate. This is true whether you malinger or not. 2 - If you memorize the test by taking it too frequently, your score will reflect that, not any increased innate ability What you call “quibbling” is actually the sound of the woo you are pitching. You have refused to identify any scientific experiments and tests yet, despite your clear passion for the topic, that either did or did not support your hypotheses. Where are the tests? But then you think Miles Per Hour is a statistic based on a single number, so maybe I am being whooshed? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-develop-intelligence/552435.md?page=4)