IQ boost videos are very misleading because they don’t actually show any significant improvement.
Significant improvement is life changing and noticable intelligence difference. These “boost” videos never make an average person suddenly a genius and never make a low functioning person into average intelligence. All they show is that you can increase your IQ points perhaps with a few points but it is not your intelligence that increases. IQ and intelligence are not the same thing. There are some correlations but they are not entirely related because there are still enough exceptions where IQ can’t seem to pinpoint to intelligence.
IQ tries to measure your general intelligence, the G factor. The most important word in that sentence is the word “tries”. There are many outliers and exceptions where IQ doesn’t work yet people still say it is a solid metric. People with disorders being often outliers.
Learning to play music itself is not the improvement of IQ points either, it’s the act of engaging in intellectual activities. It’s a tool to increase problem solving skills. I call learning to play music a semi-tool; it makes you more efficient and more invested when faced with other problems but not directly. A final tool would be mathematics and physics because solving problems is at the core of those subjects. That’s why the highest IQ’s in universities and colleges aren’t musicians but engineers, mathematicians, physicists, computer-scientists, etc. None of the art majors are at the top unless you consider some science art like mathematics.
I’m going to give an unpopular opinion right now. I think, the reason why most people and by most people I mean people who aren’t into heavily intellectual demanding activities, find Leonardo Da Vinci the most well-rounded genius of all the time is because he was interested in art and music which is something most people can more easily relate to and they can use him as an argument for arts being at the same level of intellectual engagement as something as complicated as physics. Yet, when you ask people who are into actual heavily intellectual engagement activities like physics and mathematics, computer-scientists, economists etc, who they think is the most well rounded genius of all time, Leonardo is not the only name that pops up. Another name is John von Neumann and there are probably a lot more names out there.
And the only reason why Leonardo is more popular and therefor regarded as the most well-rounded genius of all time by most people is because they like the idea of arts and music in the same intellectual category as mathematics, physics, biology and chemistry.
Nobody would suggest Leonardo as the most well-rounded genius of all time if he was besides mathematics and physics, into bakery and gardening instead of art and music. NOBODY. This is the uncomfortable truth.
This guy in the video, stating things like “musicians are smarter than non-musicians” falls into the same category of people who like the idea of music being something intellectually demanding and valuable. That’s not how that works. I can make the same statement about physics by saying physicists are smarter than non-physicists and show the studies to back up my claim but my claim would be baseless because the word smart does not mean intelligence and IQ doesn’t mean intelligence.
I like music and art but it just isn’t the same as physics and mathematics. It isn’t better or worse, it’s just different. But people treat arts and music like it is something special, even though bakery and gardening have their moments too.
