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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 12:08 PM
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11. That's easy - MJ made you smarter; beer made you dumber.
MJ encouraged the development of more tangential neural connections; beer killed brain cells.
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  -Brain Scans Support Findings That IQ Can Rise or Fall Significantly During Adolescence HuckleB  Oct-26-11 11:05 AM   #0 
  - i was smarter on those few days i wasn't extremely horny. nt  xchrom   Oct-26-11 11:07 AM   #1 
  - +1  HuckleB   Oct-26-11 11:11 AM   #4 
  - IQ tests probably change more often and more dramatically than IQ. nt  valerief   Oct-26-11 11:08 AM   #2 
  - I'm not sure how that supposition applies to this study. -eom-  HuckleB   Oct-26-11 12:06 PM   #10 
     - IQ is measured by tests. nt  valerief   Oct-26-11 12:09 PM   #12 
        - Yes, it is.  HuckleB   Oct-26-11 12:11 PM   #13 
           - They did? Wow! nt  valerief   Oct-26-11 03:29 PM   #20 
              - .  HuckleB   Oct-26-11 07:14 PM   #26 
  - I'm not surprised--after all, isn't it the relationship between mental and chronological age?  MADem   Oct-26-11 11:08 AM   #3 
  - I wonder if all that Mary Jane & beer ...  daggahead   Oct-26-11 11:16 AM   #5 
  - That's easy - MJ made you smarter; beer made you dumber.  RaleighNCDUer   Oct-26-11 12:08 PM   #11 
  - Then again...  HuckleB   Oct-26-11 12:16 PM   #14 
  - I smoked a huge fattie...  JuniperLea   Oct-26-11 03:38 PM   #22 
  - Am I the only one who finds it distressing, even alarming,  david_vincent   Oct-26-11 11:21 AM   #6 
  - I took the question to be a hit against the testing and streaming of children.  HuckleB   Oct-26-11 11:35 AM   #9 
  - That was my interpretation as well - if IQ is as malleable as this suggests  RaleighNCDUer   Oct-26-11 12:30 PM   #15 
     - Indeed. This also brings some other questions to light, as well.  HuckleB   Oct-26-11 01:00 PM   #16 
  - It's always been so...  JuniperLea   Oct-26-11 03:42 PM   #23 
     - Yeah, that was probably because of the TAG (Talented and Gifted) program.  HuckleB   Oct-26-11 04:47 PM   #25 
  - This isn't really news...  Quantess   Oct-26-11 11:25 AM   #7 
  - It's documented, yes.  HuckleB   Oct-26-11 11:34 AM   #8 
  - It's interesting to see how the English  Hutzpa   Oct-26-11 01:24 PM   #17 
  - I think you're trying to connect something that's not there.  HuckleB   Oct-26-11 02:29 PM   #19 
     - No, I'm looking into perspective  Hutzpa   Oct-27-11 11:56 AM   #27 
  - So this explains why smart kids still do dumb things.  Javaman   Oct-26-11 02:08 PM   #18 
  - As humans...  JuniperLea   Oct-26-11 03:43 PM   #24 
  - Mine rose or fell precipitously depending on whether I was thinking with my head or my brain....  apocalypsehow   Oct-26-11 03:35 PM   #21 
 

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