yes, you can improve your score on IQ tests by practice. there are books on the market that allow you to do just that.
that's also why there is quite some debate about IQ tests. if you can improve them by practice, that would mean that you can improve your 'intelligence', while it is supposed to be a rather stable thing. also, like I already mentioned - there is still no 100% agreement on what intelligence is. so that is what that definition came from: intelligence is what intelligence tests measure. and why besides IQ other forms of intelligence are made up: emotional intelligence and social intelligence to name the two I know off, sure there are more.
but anyway, all that a (good) IQ test really tells you is how good you are in doing IQ tests as compared to other people, where 100 is the average score by definition (what results score 100 is adjusted every few years, because people are getting smarter (read: getting better in doing IQ tests)) and the standard deviation is 15 (so 68.2% of the population would score between 85 and 115).
more debate: culture, language, etc. (SPOILER ALERT - discussing answers of the test) Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoilers content.
. Who is the prime minister of Holland? Dutch ppl would prolly(!) know. Asylum seekers would have more trouble. Are they less intelligent? How do ppl with dyslexia (like yourself) fare on questions where thorough reading is needed. Prolly worse. Does that mean they are less intelligent? Are ppl who cant read less intelligent than ppl who can? How do we measure this?
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Jon, your spoiler thingy (http://handsofjustice.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=952.msg12419#msg12419) broke
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Jon, your spoiler thingy (http://handsofjustice.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=952.msg12419#msg12419) broke
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you fixxited? works now, did not before.
anyway, thx ;)