IQ Across the Lifespan: How Your Intelligence Changes from Childhood to Old Age

The most important concept for understanding how IQ changes with age was articulated by psychologist Raymond Cattell in the 1940s and refined by his student John Horn in the 1960s. They proposed that what we call “intelligence” is not a single entity but at least two broad, partially independent systems.

https://iqcertificate.org/blog/iq-across-the-lifespan

#life #childhood #raymondcattel #intelligence #cognitive #child #age #study #wisdom

"Is it time for a new #revolution?

"The loss of our ability to think is a big deal.
...

"Dr. White’s briefings and Dr. Cooper’s book were not enough on their own to create this transformation. It was the #CollectiveAction in the wake of these events that ultimately mattered more.


"I’m done ceding my brain — the core of all that makes me who I am — to the financial interests of a small number of #technology #billionaires or the shortsighted conveniences of hyperactive communication styles. It’s time to move past fretting about our slide into the #cognitive shallows and decide to actually do something about it.”

—Cal Newport

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/technology-mental-fitness-cognitive.html

#DigitalTechnology

Opinion | Technology Weakens Our Minds. It’s Time to Resist.

Just as we changed our thinking around physical fitness, we need to change our attitude toward cognitive fitness.

The New York Times

The Science of Decision-Making: What Your IQ Score Reveals About How You Think Under Pressure

That dissociation, the gap between raw cognitive power and the ability to use it when it matters most, is something I encounter constantly in both my clinical and forensic work. And it is something the science of decision-making has spent the last three decades trying to understand.

https://iqcertificate.org/blog/the-science-of-decision

#science #cognitive #mind #intelligence #smartpeople #memory #think

Are humans degenerating genetically and getting dumber as a result?

Are we evolving to be more stupid? Humans have a relatively high genetic mutation rate, which has been thought to be driving down our physical and mental fitness – but columnist Michael Le Page finds these mutations aren’t the health risk some make them out to be

New Scientist
“Effet IA” : une étude du MIT dévoile ce qui arrive réellement à votre cerveau après seulement 4 mois d’utilisation de ChatGPT - Psychologies.com

Allié ou traître ? Une étude du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (plus connu sous le nom de MIT) indique que l’usage d’une intelligence artificielle comme ChatGPT peut avoir de lourdes conséquences sur notre santé cérébrale.

Psychologies.com
“Effet #IA” : une étude du #MIT dévoile ce qui arrive réellement à votre #cerveau après seulement 4 mois d’utilisation de #ChatGPT #dette #cognitive www.psychologies.com/actualites/t...

“Effet IA” : une étude du MIT ...
“Effet IA” : une étude du MIT dévoile ce qui arrive réellement à votre cerveau après seulement 4 mois d’utilisation de ChatGPT - Psychologies.com

Allié ou traître ? Une étude du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (plus connu sous le nom de MIT) indique que l’usage d’une intelligence artificielle comme ChatGPT peut avoir de lourdes conséquences sur notre santé cérébrale.

Psychologies.com

As the #ToddlerKing invades the world and says he's glad #Mueller is dead....

https://x.com/realtrumpstein/status/2035377053483074024?s=20

So Presidential!

Some are surprisingly surprised how low Sir #TrumpVirus went, blatantly angry/infantile unfiltered hatred.

"All the best words"... but then,
"Perfect really"

A very, very, defective #cognitive set superimposed on a deeply ill-formed core of #personality based on split-screens.

Hat tip to #RobReiner for this bit of #truth
- which apparently was censored in #Muskville

Donald J. Trumpstein fake (@realtrumpstein) on X

Rest in peace legend. This video was deleted from twitter by Elon Musk. You know what to do ‼️

X (formerly Twitter)

Using Your IQ Certificate on Your CV and LinkedIn to Boost Career Opportunities

As a clinical and forensic psychologist with two decades of experience, it is clear that an IQ certificate can either enhance your professional image or unintentionally damage it depending entirely on how, when, and where you use it.

https://iqcertificate.org/blog/using-your-iq-certificate-on-your-cv

#cv #linkedin #goal #professional #cognitive #cognitiveabilities #iqcertificate #certification

@Irisherself trust reading stuff like this doesn't make it better :(

"The Displacement of Cognitive Labor - AI will eventually exceed human capability across most #cognitive domains. #Intelligence is now a commodity on tap. Harnessing intelligence will have significant impacts on labor, job markets, governance and geopolitics, and of course human nature."
...to its detriment  

https://sahajgarg.github.io/blog/cognitive-labor

#cognition #humanNature #onTap

The Displacement of Cognitive Labor and What Comes After

I. The Threshold Has Been Crossed

Sahaj Garg