What are your thoughts on parents giving their children nootropics in order to enhance their academic performance?
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Posted 23 June 2005 - 09:41 PM
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Discipline and Diet before Drugs
Posted 24 June 2005 - 11:11 PM
My opinion is that drugs can't make a healthy person smarter by any meaningful measure, but they might facilitate the process of learning.
Posted 25 June 2005 - 01:40 AM
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Posted 25 June 2005 - 04:07 PM
Hold up Lifemirage,
Do you claim that a regimen of drugs from the family of "nootropics" results in a real, measureable increase in a standard intelligence test, say the Wechsler or Stanford-Binet?
If so, can you substantiate or is this conjecture at this point? I know you're cooking up some sort of experiment along these lines...
Posted 25 June 2005 - 06:08 PM
Posted 25 June 2005 - 07:13 PM
I think I can recall taking some kind of test years and years ago, maybe in pre-kindergarten? I took that mensa test too, but they refused to tell me how I scored.
Elaborate on which portions of the test are improved and which are unaffected please.
Posted 25 June 2005 - 07:20 PM
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Posted 22 July 2005 - 08:03 AM
LM-
I thought IQ, by definition, was a strictly a childhood assessment.
When you say there is a measurable effect on a standardized intelligence test, you say that with respect to the average human (IQ 100), is this premise correct?
Thus, as the baseline intellect of an individual increases, say to an IQ 150, the statistical impact of a nootropic will decrease?
Is this also reasonable?
Example:
Person #1) I take an exam. I have an IQ of 100. I take some pills. I take a different exam. I have an IQ of 110. Thus a 10% increase.
Person #2) I take an exam. I have an IQ of 150. I take some pills. I take a new exam. I have an IQ of 155. Thus a ~3% increase.
Basically, my question is: at what point on the normal distribution does the statistical impact of a nootropic regimen become trivial?
Or even detrimental?
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