Check out the case of the Polgars. The father set out to prove that he could train his daughters to become geniuses by motivating them to become exceptional at Chess. By IQ measurement, he failed in his objective, but did succeed in training all 3 of them to be exceptional Chess players.
Yea this is to be expected. A human is very capable of learning difficult tasks over time even if their iq and initial understanding isn't the best. Iq is a boost tho and you start higher and learn faster.
What I'm interested in tho is the super grandmaster level. I'm sure you can't get there without an exceptional iq level as there are plenty of hard workers who will never get there. The Hikaru iq test where he scored an average score on stream is a strange one, but I'd assume it's a sum of doing something for the first time on stream that put him off a little.
blueemu: DID YOU NOT READ WHAT I TYPED? "I SAID THAT I JUST COPIED IT AND PASTED IT HERE FROM A SCIENTIFIC SITE!" MEANING, I DID NOT "OMIT" ANYTHING! I ALSO LOOKED IT UP ON TWO DIFFERENT ENCYCLOPEDIAS THAT SAID THE SAME THING! SO THEN, EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOURCES ARE ALL "RUBBISH"! YOU WOULD KNOW BETTER THAN ALL THESE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES BY PEOPLE EDUCATED ON THE SUBJECT!
Please don't pretend that you are dispensing Gospel that has been handed down by God. All you are doing is copy-and-pasting text from one internet site to another.
If "all scientific sources agree" on these nine types of intelligence, why is it that Howard Gardner himself (the scientist who DEVELOPED this theory back in 1983, remember) abandoned the "nine types" dogma more than 20 years ago?
Doesn't he count as a scientific source?
In point of fact, the majority of POP SCIENCE sources (which have no connection to actual science, their specialty is mass entertainment) agree on the "nine types" theory. They probably aren't even aware that it was abandoned before many of their copy-writers were born... and they likely wouldn't care if they DID know that. Informing people isn't their job. Their job is generating internet traffic on their website.
blueemu: I DID NOT POST THIS INITIAL COMMENT TO "PRETEND" I WAS "DISPENSING" SOMETHING "THAT HAS BEEN HANDED DOWN BY GOD."!!! AS I SAID!!!!!!! TWO ENCYCLOPEDIAS SAID THE SAME THING -- AND I DOUBLE-CHECKED WITH OTHER RELIABLE EDUCATIONAL SOURCES (ENCYCLOPEDIAS) -- NOT NOT NOT FROM MAIN STREAM MEDIA OR SOCIAL MEDIA -- I SAID "ENCYCLOPEDIAS" AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SAYS THE SAME THING!!! HENCE, COMING FROM MANY EDUCATIONAL SOURCES -- NO, NOT JUST 1 OR 2 OR 3 DIFFERENT RELIABLE SOURCES, BUT MANY, I JUST THOUGHT TO POST IT HERE!!! AND JUST FOR THAT, YOU ACCUSE ME OF "PRETENDING" TO "DISPENSE" SOMETHING "THAT HAS BEEN HANDED DOWN BY GOD"?!!!!!!! WOW -- WHAT A ATTITUDE!!!!!!!