Is a persons intelligence genetic ?

It's about 70% genetic, 10% parenting style and 16% peer group.

Intelligence itself is notoriously hard to quantify as our norms and understanding of the world changes over time.
 
Turtlejuice said:
It's a combination of nature and nurture. People will often generalise 2 smart parents having a smart child as genetic, but that fails to acknowledge that 2 smart parents are more likely to nurture their child.
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People also make the mistake of thinking elements of a child's make up are as a result of rearing as opposed to parents traits re-emerging in their child.

See identical twin studies for evidence.
 
How smart someone is has a lot to do with environment from experience, but their cap is probably mostly genetics.
 
One time Jordan Peterson had an interview with the author of a book called the neuroscience of intelligence. It looked very interesting, I'll have to pick it up at some point.
 
migeru29 said:
Very stupid chart since "hispanic" is not a race and you perform an ancestry DNA between 10 hispanics the results will be totally different, instead if you do test 10 "Caucasians" their ancestry will have more correlation. Hispanic is not a race never was.
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You sound " Hispanic"
 
I'd venture its probably mostly genetic just like athleticism is. You can hone your abilities or let them atrophy , but the upper potential is limited by inherited factors.
 
Higher awareness, higher counsciouness, higher intelligence. You can rise intelligence during lifetime. The true intelligence is if you have wisdom and real spiritual development. Everything else is a joke and false intelligence (modern scientists etc... a joke of the highest order). In today world, for the most, big majority of time fake intelligence is praised.
The real examples of intelligence are Jesus, Buddha, Muhammed, Srila Prabhupad, Krishna etc...
 
Intelligence is mostly genetic, if it was environmental than the dog and cat living in the same house would be just as "intelligent."

Don't confuse intelligence with wisdom or knowledge, you can be smart and ignorant.
 
djacobox372 said:
Intelligence is mostly genetic, if it was environmental than the dog and cat living in the same house would be just as "intelligent."

Don't confuse intelligence with wisdom or knowledge, you can be smart and ignorant.
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If someone is smart, he is less and less ignorant. If someone is even less ignorant, he is even smarter. You can't be smart and ignorant. If someone has real intelligence, he just seems ignorant because of lifestyle and denying something he already knows. Less ignorant you are, smarter you are.

Intelligence is wisdom and knowledge. It's the same thing. Knowledge is something you really know. There is a difference between learning and knowing. When you are learning, you are learning, when you grasp that theory, when you put it in practice, when you are really aware of it in heart, your intelligence raises... you are more intelligent person, you become more wise, you know what is real and what is not, and not just some bullshit and theory in mind. Even Einstein wasn't really something special. He was a learner that never put anything in practice (most people of this world praise such intelligence and think that's intelligence). Nikola Tesla was wise and intelligent, he knew things in practice, knew what's real and what is not. Jesus and similar are even on a higher level of intelligence.

Wisdom, knowledge, intelligence, in reality the same thing.
 
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wow, people throwing some bullshit numbers itt lmao
 
Just like a skinny guy can lift and get buff a dummy can read and learn to get smart. It's just the really special Ronny Coleman's of the brainiac world that you may not be able to equalize with
 
I'm 100% sure no one here is qualified to have a meaningful opinion on the subject.
 
If anyone has ~2 hours to spare, listen to this.

 
A.S. Deep said:
How smart someone is has a lot to do with environment from experience, but their cap is probably mostly genetics.
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Absolutely, people on here are seriously underestimating the value of experience. Engineering is a really good example. You can only become so intelligent from reading books and learning theory.

I would argue that almost everything we learn is from experiencing the environment around us.
 
I dont have kids but my sister has a daughter shes 17 years old and when I visited my mom and she started telling me about the struggles that my niece and her mom (my sister) are going though it was like the universe made it so clear that she and I share the same gene

My niece goes to one of those schools for super smart people, shes on a complete scholarship, my sister doesnt pay anything, but my sister is always fighting with her because she says my niece doesnt put all her effort in her studies, she always puts just 50% because she knows 50% is just enough to not lose her scholarship and pass. When my mom told me this I was like OMG WOW... this is EXACTLY how I felt and what I did during my entire school education

My mom asked me "what can your sister do?" I laughed and I said ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING! my niece already knows shes smarter than everybody else in that classroom, and she knows she can fuck around all afternoon and just putting a little effort will be enough to be above everybody else. Why would she kill herself studying when doing other stuff is more interesting to her.

All this conversation and discovery about my niece started because a few months ago my niece and I had to share an activity together for her school. I noticed she followed instructions extremely well and she figured out things very quickly. A week later I went to my moms house and just talking around I mentioned to her "hey mom my niece is very intelligent".... my mom looked at me suprised and laughed and said "your niece was here a couple days ago you know what she said? - hey grandma my uncle is very intelligent" lol...I swear thats what happened and shit like this can not be coincidental!
 
Phlog said:
People also make the mistake of thinking elements of a child's make up are as a result of rearing as opposed to parents traits re-emerging in their child.

See identical twin studies for evidence.
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The problem lies with the definition of intelligence, or more specifically the lack of a definition of intelligence. Some definitions will have more of an emphasis on nature, some on nurture, but none of them are at either end 100%. All we can say definitively, is it's a combination of both.
 
thetruth2709 said:
I dont have kids but my sister has a daughter shes 17 years old and when I visited my mom and she started telling me about the struggles that my niece and her mom (my sister) are going though it was like the universe made it so clear that she and I share the same gene

My niece goes to one of those schools for super smart people, shes on a complete scholarship, my sister doesnt pay anything, but my sister is always fighting with her because she says my niece doesnt put all her effort in her studies, she always puts just 50% because she knows 50% is just enough to not lose her scholarship and pass. When my mom told me this I was like OMG WOW... this is EXACTLY how I felt and what I did during my entire school education

My mom asked me "what can your sister do?" I laughed and I said ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING! my niece already knows shes smarter than everybody else in that classroom, and she knows she can fuck around all afternoon and just putting a little effort will be enough to be above everybody else. Why would she kill herself studying when doing other stuff is more interesting to her.

All this conversation and discovery about my niece started because a few months ago my niece and I had to share an activity together for her school. I noticed she followed instructions extremely well and she figured out things very quickly. A week later I went to my moms house and just talking around I mentioned to her "hey mom my niece is very intelligent".... my mom looked at me suprised and laughed and said "your niece was here a couple days ago you know what she said? - hey grandma my uncle is very intelligent" lol...I swear thats what happened and shit like this can not be coincidental!
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Very cool story man thank you for sharing. Bit worrying at times the genetics have such a massive effect on who we are etc.
 
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