Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedPaul Bloom: belief
7 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
“The skeptics will say — I think Bryan Caplan says — you get better at taking tests, you get better at a scholastic way of thinking.”
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- Paul Bloom
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- belief
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- 7 Aug 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…How much does formal education boost IQ? The data are, a little bit. Each year you’re in school, your IQ goes a little bit up. The skeptics will say — I think Bryan Caplan says — you get better at taking tests, you get better at a scholastic way of thinking. I do think, though, that education, period, does play a role in making you smarter. It gives you practice in dealing with abstractions, with hypotheticals, the sorts of things that we often use as markers of intelligence. Do people overestimate or underestimate your intelligence? You.…
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