@Ofgeniuskind: Um, no. Any old fool can get 1100 in 4 months.
Extrapolating IQ scores to potential in chess
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Rip the Midwest and South. ^
twighead wrote:
Optimissed wrote:
I suppose that if, in the USA, teaching requires only an average intelligence, that goes some way to explaining the perpetuation of under-achievement amongst the population there.
That's just a misunderstanding of the US in general - our 'averages' of most negative things, such as obesity or poor educational averages are brought down by the bible thumping midwest and south - the educated portions of the country, i.e. new england and the west coast perform quite a bit higher in every subject than the UK or most of Europe.>>
Is that what you think or do you have stats to prove it? I admit I've mainly spent time in New England and the West Coast and not other bits of the USA. I also admit that the UK isn't maybe the most advanced part of Europe regarding school performance. But given that most of the USA don't even seem to know where China is, the baseline there may be pretty low.
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Optimissed wrote:
I suppose that if, in the USA, teaching requires only an average intelligence, that goes some way to explaining the perpetuation of under-achievement amongst the population there.
Meh, seems like most of the anglophone world could do better at education.
dpnorman wrote:
Optimissed wrote:
I suppose that if, in the USA, teaching requires only an average intelligence, that goes some way to explaining the perpetuation of under-achievement amongst the population there.
Meh, seems like most of the anglophone world could do better at education. >>
It's being addressed here in the UK and the gap has closed between here and, say, France. I think Finland still stands out though. Son's gf is Finnish. The USA would seem to have deep-seated problems, however. Outside the West Coast and New England it really does seem like a third world country, probably because it was formed mainly by the mass uneducated escaping from Europe because they couldn't handle the changes and progress that were happening there. The USA moved into the modern era quickly after about 1870 and became a world leader in technology, but that left a century of ignorance and prejudice among the greater population that was hard to displace, so the population still has a foundation on a sort of 18th century European mentality, which accounts for all the religious, cultural and racial intolerance.
There has been research. My IQ is 152 and I am somewhere around 1100-1200 skill level. Kep in mind though in 4 months of play that is really good. I've known people playing 2 years and never got over 800 USCF. So mabye there is. Also Bobby Fischer never took a IQ test I do not think.