alt Hacker News> Cognitive ability is largely biological/genetic and can't be "trained up" so to speak
Would you share evidence? How are you defining 'cognitive ability'?
The idea that cognitive ability doesn't benefit from education is unbelievable - the opposite of experience and of what I understand.
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tbrownaw • last Monday at 12:15 AM
This disagreement sounds like what I've heard about fluid intelligence vs crystallized intelligence.
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Education helps channel cognitive ability into useful pathways, but you either have something to channel or don't.
Though I'd go with innate over genetic: leaves more room for nurture and epigenetics and doesn't make one sound like a white supremacist.