Posted on 09/07/2014 2:35:40 PM PDT by lee martell
I'd like to find activities that keep the brain active, and are fun or stimulating. I produce art when I'm more organized. I listen to many kinds of music that I consider worth listening to. I read a lot, not as much as before the net, but some. I know, or I should say, I believe that intelligence is a flexible affect of how one uses their mind at any given point. The level measured can go up or down, depending on one's physical, emotional, or spiritual environment, and how the subject chooses to interpret such a given environment.
Years ago, I saw a sign at a storefront window saying "Free I.Q. Tests". I should have remembered right then the cardinal rule of charity; "Nothing is Given Completely For Free. There is always some benefit, however tangential expected by the giver." There is nothing mean or wicked by that statement. It's simply the truth more often than not. So I went in to discover that this organization was 'loosely linked' with Scientology. I took the tests anyway and got a 120 score. I was then asked if I would'nt mind 'helping out this small struggling organization' by making a few quick phone calls to a script. I was in my late teens, still naive and bored enough to say yes. After cold calling for what turned out to be hours (no clocks on the walls), I subtly excused myself. Actually, I sneaked out and was done with it. Or so I thought. I continued to get phone calls, letters and 'Emergency Memos" in fluorescent colored envelopes from that organization for the next four years before they finally took the hint that I was not interested in being a Phone Drone or serving them in any other capacity. This is all based on my one brief visit. So I ask you all, are there any such I.Q. tests out there, that will not spam you, or dump a big jar of 'cookies' into your email?
Have you looked at Khan Academy? I don’t know that they have IQ tests, but you can drill on Calculus and stuff.
No need to take an IQ test. Did you vote for Obama? Then you’re smarter than most of the people in the country.
This site is legit:
http://www.lumosity.com/
I need to work on accepting math “Because it is there!”
I’m already using it everyday w/o thinking about it.
Cup measures, Temperatures, Miles Per Hour, Liters of Gas.
What was that song by War? The World Is a ‘Numbered’ Ghetto.
Yes, I can tell you what’s wrong with that picture; The “Man” doesn’t fit the office, and has not to this day fulfilled his obligations as being President to all Americans; not just those who voted for him.
At the moment I am brain impaired with a high blood calcium. I use Luminosity to help. I think it does help. It costs a little but it makes me feel a little better. Check it out.
True, but that's sort of like saying that, since I use my muscles all the time to move, there's no benefit to lifting weights at the gym. If you want to exercise your brain deliberately, math drill is a great way to do it. So is vocabulary drill: you can practice analogies on an SAT prep site.
I expect to have Alzheimers some day, so the more I store in my brain now, the better.
Thanks. Good tagline about finding Krugerrands in a CrackerJack Box. My fingers have not touched gold since, well, ever!
the way to get rid of high blood calcium is to take magnesium glycinate. you don’t absorb calcium if you’re deficient in mag, so it floats in your blood. It’s supposed to store in your bones, teeth and tissues.
Madame Tax-Chick, I beg to differ with your ‘no benefits to lifting weights at the gym’ conclusion. Sure, I won’t become Mr. America by twenty minutes of lifting a few x a week, but my trapezoids, deltoids and Biceps seem to be more developed since I resumed my routine. My breathing is better. Plus having a well done upper body helps to deflect attention from my gut (is the hope, anyway).
Not exactly testing but the National Geographic channel has a good show called “Brain Games” with lots of cool mental exercizes.
Also on the Science Channel is “Hack my brain” which is also good.
No golf cart?
I'm proud to say I solved it! Take your time and map it out!
That was my point. I’m doing 40 minutes with weights, three times a week, and I’m objectively stronger. I know because I’m lifting more weight.
It’s the same thing with orderly, progressive math drill, as opposed to your everyday use of math. You can start by doing fractions computation practice, and move up to quadratic equations, and then on to calculus functions.
bfl
Oh, I see. Keep learning and benefiting by gradually increasing or changing the definition of the challenge.
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