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Does IQ last for life?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.IQ is a subjective measurement which is notoriously inaccurate for testing extreme age ranges (i.e. very young and very old) and can fluctuate from test to test.
A person of 16 with an IQ of 138 has the intelligence of an *average* 22 year old. The 3 year old with this IQ has the mental ability of a 4 year old. WOW!
It's possible in 4 years time this genius child might have the abilities of a 6 year old (an IQ now of 86) so would we call him sub-normal?
All a high IQ proves is that you're good at IQ tests.
It's quite hard to define intelligence...the ability to do well at IQ tests? LOL. IQ tests will be a good measure, then...
But similarly, if you identify it as the kind of things that IQ tests measure...you're going to find a similar result.
Is it the capacity for problem solving? There's plenty of capacity for capitalizing on a poor 'hand'. Huge component of environmental factors, in my opinion.
These are interesting discussions, but the only simple answer I require is if your IQ is taken before maturity, can you use that result for life or would it be better to retest later on?
I did get an answer from a psychologist once which made no sense, and my intuition tells me it should be fixed for life. Though environment can stunt your growth, I doubt it can increase what we were designed to reach either physically or mentally, and I'm sure a study has been taken to find this out ('hothousing').