Talk:Environment and intelligence

Untitled
STRONG KEEP - anything that influences intelligence is important. This article just needs to be expanded and cleaned up.

Proposed merge
Health and intelligence and Environment and intelligence show a preponderance of overlap in subject matter, with no really sensible dividing line between the two topics. I suggest they be merged into the more general of the two articles, Environment and intelligence. Pete.Hurd (talk) 18:48, 11 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me. II  | (t - c) 18:43, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

New article on poverty and intelligence
Study: Poverty dramatically affects children's brains references an interesting article. I don't see it in the December issue of the [http://jocn.mitpress.org/content/vol20/issue10/ J. Cogn. Neurosci], though. II | (t - c) 18:43, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Intelligence Citations Bibliography for Articles Related to IQ Testing
You may find it helpful while reading or editing articles to look at a bibliography of Intelligence Citations, posted for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human intelligence and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library at a university with an active research program in these issues (and to another library that is one of the ten largest public library systems in the United States) and have been researching these issues since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research. You can help other Wikipedians by suggesting new sources through comments on that page. It will be extremely helpful for articles on human intelligence to edit them according to the Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles, as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 20:15, 30 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I still welcome your suggestions of new sources, especially as it now appears likely that this article's content will be merged into the article Heritability of IQ (which should treat both genetic and environmental influences on IQ comprehensively to be fair to its own topic). -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 01:04, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

There is a stub that should be merged with this article.
Apparently, an earlier POV fork resulted in a little stub article called IQ_testing_environmental_variances, which ought to be merged with this article. As soon as I learn how to do the merge (I'm much newer to Wikipedia than I am to doing research), I will try to take care of that. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 20:53, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Fluid intelligence
This article states "Research on the effectiveness of interventions, and the degree to which fluid intelligence can be increased, especially after age 16, is somewhat controversial. Fluid intelligence is typically thought of as something more innate, and defined as immutable after maturity."

There are no references for this, and it doesn't even make much sense, and doesn't even properly define fluid intelligence in this context. While it does have somewhat of a reference early on, it only vaguely concerns the issue of fluid intelligence, and even then doesn't properly differentiate it. It doesn't explain exactly how fluid intelligence is markedly different from the rest of general intelligence, especially to the point of how it's thought of as more "innate" and "immutable" at age 16, and conflates stability of intelligence at 16 with immutability. Heritability doesn't peak until the mid 20's, which is when brain growth peaks. This article implies, in a vague manner, that the only real dynamic of intellectual maturation is neuronal connections. -- Mannoro

I now think that this should be merged into Heritability_of_IQ, with a retitling of that article.
Having read more sources recently, it seems to me that this article should be merged into Heritability_of_IQ and that that article should be retitled. I am open to the suggestions of all of you here before I do that. That will be my first article merge, so I will take my time before boldly doing this, and I appreciate any thoughts any of you have about how to proceed. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 16:39, 9 August 2010 (UTC)


 * See discussion here.--Victor Chmara (talk) 22:31, 20 January 2011 (UTC)