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IQ isn't fixed at birth, can increase with education

By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay

 

Children who have more schooling may see their IQ improve, Norwegian researchers have found.

 

Although time spent in school has been linked with IQ, earlier studies did not rule out the possibility that people with higher IQs might simply be likelier to get more education than others, the researchers noted.

 

Now, however, "there is good evidence to support the notion that schooling does make you 'smarter' in some general relevant way as measured by IQ tests," said study author Taryn Galloway, a researcher at Statistics Norway in Oslo...