"Eureka Method", method to increase IQ

Hello !


About one year ago, my IQ was about 105. I've found a way to increased it gradually. I had the idea to do the same way I used to for crosswords.

It is to make your brain thinking over items (of IQ test's ones, or other...) you haven't solved. You wait several hours or several days. You return to those items, and if you haven't solved it, you wait another time several hours or several days. If you haven’t solve them this time, you wait for another time, and so forth… Often, you can solve these sorts of items more and more quickly, and finish to find them during the timed time of the IQ test ! Then your IQ increase gradually.

Today, my IQ is about 160. I've called this way the "Eureka Method".


Christelle

Hello Christelle,

With all due respect, your assertion regarding how to boost one's I.Q. score is not only a *psychometric impossibility* but also highly misleading. You might have been cognitively blocked, sick/ill, nervous or some combination of those when the score of 105 points was measured/achieved. Alternatively, the test could have been too easy (very low ceiling), you were unsupervised, it was incorrectly scored, and so forth.

Nobody, and I mean absolutely noone I have ever encountered, can increase his/her I.Q. score by 55 points on the same supervised, standardized intelligence battery (or single intelligence test for that matter), e.g. taken a year apart, without something going drastically wrong. For example, the testee 'mentally freezes up', medication or a medical condition interferes with the testee's performance or the test supervisor could make some mistake(s) like omitting instructions, wrongly scoring the test, giving the wrong amount of time to complete part or all of a test, etc.

In any case, the typical increment (if any) in a person's I.Q. score when a testee retakes the same test a year or two later and is correctly supervised and scored [barring a strange circumstance or set of them] *hardly ever exceeds* an increase of between 5 to 10 points, even taking a practice effect into account. Unfortunately, I feel it is my duty to set the record straight and say that the "Eureka Method" that you are alluding to is spurious and a pure artefact.
Best regards,

John D. Martínez
B.Sc. (Hons) in Psychology (Reading)
Member (External Advisor) of WIN's Psychometrics Committee
Member of The British Psychological Society
Honorary Consultant Psychologist of Spanish Mensa

:-) Hello nexus90 !


I had tried several IQ tests im psychologists when I was chidren and teenager, and I had always some IQ about 105.

About one year ago, when I started to test my IQ, at the beginning, when the time of the tests was finished, I went to the answers (without thinking over the items I haden't solved). I had done like that for about 4 or 5 tests. And I had always IQ about 105. Then, YOU ARE RIGHT, WITH THIS METHOD, we CAN'T increase IQ.

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But one day, I had the idea to do the same way I used to for crosswords, with the "Eureka Method". Then, my IQ started to increase gradually (110, 115...).

I must say that my IQ had increase GRADUALLY, and not only in one week-end ! It took me about one year with a training of SEVERAL HOURS PER DAY WITH "EUREKA METHOD" to achieve to have an IQ about 160 !

I train myself not only with IQ tests, but also with others games (a lot of puzzles found on Internet, crosswords...). As far as IQ tests are concerned, I also do untimed tests.

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Try on yourself... AND YOU WILL SEE !

Interesting !
I'm doubtful, but that's curious and I would like to ask you (Christelle) some questions.

You said you took several tests when you was a child and a teen : why ? If your IQ was in the average, why did you or your parents (or other ?) wanted to do tests and tests again ?

I think it is possible to increase someone's abilities to solving IQtests-problems, but I would not say 55 points, rather 10-15. My impressions are, as nexus said, you could have had some cognitive blocks which made you to not use all your potential.

When I was a child, I felt different from other pupils the first years I was with them (between 0 and 4 year-old). But I became much more conformist and between 5 and 11 year-old I have been/appeared almost normal. When I was 12 I've suddenly become aware of being really different. Every day I've felt as if I was becoming more and more intelligent, that was a really strange feeling I can't really discribe. Now I'm absolutely convinced I would have had a score like 120 or 125 if I had took a test between 5 and 11, because my brain was partially disconnected.
I think my brain is still under-used, I feel that constantly. I'm interesting in taking a test sooner, and another one in a ten years' time.

Regards,
Julie.

NB : you didn't mentionned the tests you took.

:-) Hello !


Here, it is only a summary of Eureka Method's Topic, that I've done, because one member had advised me to do this little summary in "High IQ Life". All this topic is in Winest : Friendly Hand : Eureka Method.

Like you, one year ago, I believed it was impossible to rise IQ by more than about 10 points.

:-D Hello everybody !


For information, you can click below :
http://www.amplifyiq.com/

I'm sure this link will interest you ! _____ :-D

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Here, it is only a summary of Eureka Method's Topic, that I've done, because one member had advised me to do this little summary in "High IQ Life". All this topic is in Winest : Friendly Hand : Eureka Method. :-)

Hello everybody



My IQ score is a 'purported' IQ of 165.
I haven't taken standardized tests in psychologist's.

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Nevertheless, as I have alreaday said, my real aim isn't to PROVE you my IQ, but to share with the other members my Eureka Method and another methods of brain power development. If I have told my IQ, it was only for explaining the effects of my Eureka Method.

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The most important thing is to have a SCALE OF COMPARISON :

What is important to know is that : concerning tests in my books, one year ago, I was only capable to solve about 7 answers in 30 minutes. Now, with those same type of tests in books, I can solve about 37 items in 26 minutes, thanks to training by Eureka Method. Isn't it a great neural improvement ? Brain haven't got two ways to work : one for IQ tests, and an other one for other puzzles, but only one.

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Here, it is only a summary of Eureka Method's Topic, that I've done, because one member had advised me to do this little summary in "High IQ Life". All this topic is in Winest : Friendly Hand : Eureka Method. :-)

Hi Christelle,

165, wow! That's very impressive! But what is a 'purported IQ' and what technique is used to determine it? Is there any difference to a normal IQ as determined by a standarized test? And what is the standard deviation for this 165 IQ? I really want to know, please tell me!

:-) Erebus, have a look in Winest : Friendly hand : Eureka Method (all subject is here). This is only a little summary that a member had advised me to do. :-D

Hi Christelle,

Now I'm even more puzzled! I still don't know what a 'purported IQ' is and what standard deviation is used for the 165 IQ?! I'm really curious now, please tell me more!

But seriously, my feeling is that if you want people to take your claims about the Eureka method seriously, you will have to prove the purported increase of your IQ! And once you have proved that, you will also have to prove that no other factors are responsible for it.

Only the use of a scientific method can do this... (such methods are used to develop e.g. standarized IQ tests).