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The article: "This fact is applied to the offspring of great geniuses, who are supposed to be thinking of something else when they beget their children, and hen
by sheensleeves 12y ago
The article: "This fact is applied to the offspring of great geniuses, who are supposed to be thinking of something else when they beget their children, and hence their descendants are often much below them in intellect."
In a blog post, I read that this is called "regression to the mean," and IIRC you are basically the average of your four grandparents in IQ. So he's wrong, but clever.
- SapphireSun 12y ago> IIRC you are basically the average of your four grandparents in IQ. So he's wrong, but clever. Assuming that's true, it would be better phrased as "you are on average the average of your four grandparents in IQ" otherwise you'd never have geniuses ;)
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y ago"you are basically the average of your four grandparents in IQ" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect