It sounds possible. If you have two parents who look down on unintelligent people, then your first order of business as a child is to make sure you seem intelli

It sounds possible. If you have two parents who look down on unintelligent people, then your first order of business as a child is to make sure you seem intelligent to your parents. Actually developing general intelligence would be much lower on the priority list. Intelligence is forged in the fires of necessity. When a child must struggle against reality to feel safe, they must learn how to predict the future accurately, which will create the learning context for developing intelligence. A child who has plenty of family support to get things done, succeed in school, etc, but who is surrounded by social pressures to appear to be a certain kind of person will instead get good at appearing to be a certain kind of person.