Is a persons intelligence genetic ?

[Phlog]

Very cool story man thank you for sharing. Bit worrying at times the genetics have such a massive effect on who we are etc.

Why is the fate of genes more worrying than any other fate?

 

[Darkgsp]

Why is the fate of genes more worrying than any other fate?

Good question and what other fate ?

 

[Darkgsp]

My parents are really dumb I'm just kind of dumb

oh

 

[freakroor]

i know a guy with 2 phD's who still lives with his mom and has never slept with a woman at age 40

intelligence is subjective.

 

[rj144]

Why are some people so much "smarter" than others. Is it a genetic thing that is inherited from the persons parents, the luck of the "genetic lottery" or is it something we just develop over our lives. Through study and life circumstances .

We all have met people that seem to pick up things incredibly fast compared to others. Seemingly with very little effort and in a short time, heck there is probably something you are very good at naturally but why is this ?

Well, the smarter people usually put question marks after questions, for one.

 

[MarloStanfield]

Probably my whole family is dumb as well

 

[bosox32]

Here are two charts that kind of show the correlations to IQ. For the top chart, the parental education level I think is a good indicator of genetics and I suppose priorities. Since all the graphs track upward for greater parental education, you might conclude genetics plays a role. I suppose those that finish college often are more affluent so that is probably baked in as well.
The below chart comparing twin reared apart and together and correlations between parents and foster parents show how much genetics and environment can play. Genetics play a pretty strong role though.

Lol at the first chart. Are we saying blacks are genetically dumber then other races??

 

[TheLastSpartan]

As with most things concerning the human condition its nature+nurture.

 

[James T. Kirk]

There are differences between race, but it's more nuanced than you probably know.

What is it about YouTube on this site? Every time I click play, an error occurred, an error occurred, an error occurred.

 

[youngsteinel]

i know a guy with 2 phD's who still lives with his mom and has never slept with a woman at age 40

intelligence is subjective.

I guess sleeping with women would fall under social intelligence? Because otherwise I have no idea how sleeping with a lot of women shows intelligence.

 

[Pugilistic]

My dad has a Ph.D and it took me almost a decade to get a bachelor's. I guess I didn't inherit his genes.

I guess sleeping with women would fall under social intelligence? Because otherwise I have no idea how sleeping with a lot of women shows intelligence.

I've known otherwise smart people who can't seem to understand human interaction so I guess that's a kind of intelligence.

 

[Prefect]

graphs are racist!

Lol at the first chart. Are we saying blacks are genetically dumber then other races??

Economic factors likely play a huge role. Poverty is not dispered among all the groups evenly.

 

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

im pretty smart

 

[Ignicious]

I asked my dad the same thing, and he fell down the stairs for no reason

 

[bosox32]

Economic factors likely play a huge role. Poverty is not dispered among all the groups evenly.

Agreed. Just poking fun at the chart; might as well had a chart that contained income brackets.

 

[GhostZ06]

lol straight to a race debate. Well we can already list the idiots in the thread


Economic, some genetics, and environment

 

[Rod1]

If we talk about IQ the upper limit is mostly genetic, the lower limit is mostly enviroment.

 

[Rod1]

It's mostly genetic. Resources and tools are meaningless without genetic potential.

Genetic potential is useless without training.

 

[DragRacer]

So in that regard, which came first... the chicken or the egg ?

Economic factors likely play a huge role. Poverty is not dispered among all the groups evenly.

 

[Rod1]

So in that regard, which came first... the chicken or the egg ?

Economics came first if you are talking about groups.

A few brilliant men created things that improved the lives of the rest, the rest became smarter as they learned from the brilliance of their peers.

Just because you are taught calculus in High School doesnt means that your average High Schooler is as smart as Newton.