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To: CharlesOConnell

OK, I majored in psychology a lifetime ago and I was taught that IQ was pretty much innate. Yes you could lower your IQ via brain damage, but other than that it pretty much stays the same. I can’t see how ChromeBook use could lower kids’ IQs.

That said, being a geezer who taught during the invasion of computers into the classroom, I pretty much avoided using the ‘wonderful’ new technology on offer with my students. I figured that the one thing my kids didn’t lack in their lives was screen time. They need a whole lot more book time. Actually reading books for minutes at a time.


9 posted on 08/18/2021 10:11:56 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

I think IQ is now believed to be both genetic and environmental.

The last I read some time ago, is that behavioral psychologists guess that IQ is about 60/40% innate/environmental.

Your IQ can actually go down if you fail to exercise your brain.

How many people can do simple math in their head anymore?

How many read books? I don’t mean what passes for books written today, but books that took real language skills to produce.


12 posted on 08/18/2021 11:29:22 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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