// increasing intelligence
- Here is a quick summary from BottomLine of Robert Sternberg's tips for increasing intelligence
- Parenting Magazine says "it's better to let your child think for himself" (media clip)
- Peggy Madsen's article on increasing your baby's intelligence (pdf)
- Two reports on the "Flynn Effect" (one from Principia Cybernetica and another from Indiana University) regarding how each generation is smarter than the previous one ("While the book acknowledges that no one knows why test scores are rising, Flynn argues in one chapter that environmental factors must be responsible for the trend." - APA Monitor)
- Even the APA is asking, "Is human intelligence increasing?"
- The Learning Curve report regarding malleability of intelligence
- Metasystem Transition Theory and The Future of Humanity
- Autism National Committee's articles on The IQ Fallacy
- Check out the map on the History of Influences in the Development of Intelligence Theory and Testing website
// six ways to
increase intelligence
- Increase the diversity of input (varieties of sensory perceptions)
- Increase the diversity of transformations (multiple meanings / interpreations / metaphors)
- Increase the diversity of output (expression / application)
- Improve the conditions of the physical support systems (body, environment)
- Remove or reduce the environmental factors which inhibit intelligence (labels, bureaucracies, etc.)
- Increase the environmental factors which support intelligence (trust, communities, unpredictability, communication technologies, etc.)
Bureaucracies are designed to reduce intelligence by limiting information (input) and conditioning pre-defined interpretations of value, authority and procedures (transformations) while increasing obedience and efficiency (output). Fixed hierarchies remain fixed through force (or threat of force = terrorism).
Natural hierarchies reflect the intelligence of a system by constantly changing, emerging and dissipating relative to the needs of specific situations.
Communities are designed to increase intelligence by presenting new information (input), discussing new perspectives (transformations) and offering new actions and tools for sharing, participating and fellowship (output).