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by joeyo 5996 days ago
Increasing IQ is, at best, a side effect of increasing intelligence. That is, IQ is just one way of quantifying intelligence in a single number. Its limitations are well known. Depending on how poor a mapping there is between intelligence and IQ for the specific individual, it is entirely possible that intelligence goes up while IQ stays the same (or conceivably even goes down).