10/20/2025

A New Study Suggests You've More Influence over Your IQ than You Think

New research complicates the old consensus that IQ is largely fixed

As someone who writes for the internet, I can tell you any story about how to be more intelligent is pretty much guaranteed to attract interest. Through the privacy of our screens, our clicks reveal that a whole lot of us are quietly anxious about our IQ scores.

It's natural enough to worry about whether you have the intellectual horsepower to achieve your dreams. But a new study suggests the premise behind all our anxious googling is flawed. It concluded you have a lot more influence over your IQ than you might imagine.

How much is your IQ inborn?

Check out the Wikipedia page for ‘IQ’ and you’ll learn that, "Psychometricians generally regard IQ tests as having high statistical reliability. Reliability represents the measurement consistency of a test. A reliable test produces similar scores upon repetition."

Please select this link to read the complete article from Inc.