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You can push g around quite a bit at an early age, but by adulthood everyone regresses back to their original potential. This is just another way of saying ther
by danieltillett 9y ago
You can push g around quite a bit at an early age, but by adulthood everyone regresses back to their original potential. This is just another way of saying there is a shared environmental component to g at an early age, but none in adulthood [0].
0. There is a shared environmental component for deprived shared environments, but it has to be very extreme to not washout by adulthood.
- fjsolwmv 9y agoOk, but g is an abstract psychological theory, not practical achievement and success in life.
- danieltillett 9y agoYes g is abstract, but it is more a summary of all the different factors that go into intelligence. It explains the otherwise very puzzling fact that if you measure one aspect of intelligence (say speed at which someone can do simple arithmetic) you can predict well how well they will do on something totally different (say identifying grammatical errors in a text).