[routerl]

> ...you're going to come back with a much different understanding of Chinese culture and its people

And of American culture and its people. You might re-evaluate some ideas you'd grown up with, becoming a more cosmopolitan/adaptable/understanding person, capable of having deeper relationships with a larger proportion of the Earth's population.

But it probably won't make you better at tests of cognitive capacity.

[mdp2021]

> But it probably won't make you better at tests of cognitive capacity

How do you test «cognitive capacity»? The other day on these pages a newcomer came and wrote he "distrusts them <category>". Some call ignorance relevant to "cognitive capacity".

(Some call it "much more than just relevant".)

[isaacfrond]

It's in the paper. You present a battery of tasks, and see how well you do. In this case, twelve cognitive tests were included:

Double Trouble

Spatial Planning

Odd One Out

Grammatical Reasoning

Feature Match

Polygons

Digit Span

Rotations

Token Search

Paired Associates

Spatial Span

Monkey Ladder

[VLM]

> It's in the paper.

Most of us don't have access to the paper, although our tax dollars surely paid for it.

[InfamousRece]

Most of us use scihub to retrieve papers.

[michaelt]

Presumably they mean 'g factor' [1]

Although somewhat ironically, the person who proposed 'g factor' was specifically reporting correlations between student performance in latin, french, english, maths and music.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

[lostmsu]

I don't think you really have to learn the destination country's language for that. At least it is unclear that the lack of language would be any kind of major roadblock.