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Yet despite variation in what people eat and what drugs they take, high-IQ people tend to be born to high-IQ people and same for low-IQ. Even twins raised in t
by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Yet despite variation in what people eat and what drugs they take, high-IQ people tend to be born to high-IQ people and same for low-IQ.
Even twins raised in totally separate households will have very similar IQs later in life.
This epigenetic stuff is invariably copium from people who don’t want to admit their intellectual gifts are in fact gifts and as a corollary, all the downstream economic rewards of intelligence are also mere gifts from the lottery of being born to high-IQ parents.
- cjbgkagh 1y agoIt can be both genetic and epigenetic, but concur I was one of those people who believed I was smarter simply because I wanted it more and worked harder. I found out later in life that my outcomes were largely genetic and this has increased my acceptance of others as they are.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoYeah obviously epigenetics and environment matter. We should try to improve people's conditions all over, and also accept that not everyone can just work their way to "intelligent" and deserve dignity nonetheless.
- Balgair 1y agoFun little quirk of IQ: Lower-IQ scored couples tend to have children with higher IQ scores, and higher-IQ scored couples tend to have children with lower IQ scores. The explanation seems to be that whatever random genes you got to have an off-average IQ score cancel out with your partner and your offspring then regresses to the mean.
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- sorcerer-mar 1y agoYep! With caveat that you mean “higher than the parents,” I.e. you wouldn’t generally have a below-mean couple produce offspring that’s above the mean or vice versa.