Quote: (10-01-2013 07:39 PM)Doctore Wrote:
Quote: (09-29-2013 08:59 PM)samsamsam Wrote:
JNF. Let's say you wanted to have kids at some point. To give your kids a chance intellectually doesn't the mom need to have done brains? Some smarts you are just born with. I get you can read and study a bunch but natural smarts is a good start. Just curious what your thoughts are. Thanks.
One day I'll have to go look carefully at those studies which say intelligence in the mother is critical to the child's. I have a feeling that it's full of massaged numbers like other feminist-influenced studies. It's only anecdotal but I simply do not see this correlation in my extended family. My dad's side of the family have high IQs, both he and I are over 140. My mum, bless her and her amazing cooking, is a few standard deviations below us. All the kids in the family that have high IQs appear to inherit that from the father. The women - even high IQ ones - who marry dumber (but rich lol) men have much dumber kids. Smart dad + dumb mum always seem to produce smart kids.
OTOH, the mother's health has a much bigger effect on the child's health. I'd worry more about that than intelligence.
I am curious about this. Is there any evidence of any hereditary traits, not just IQ, that are more dependent on either the mother or the father?
If this is the case it would have quite a far reaching impact on the way we view genetics and human biology.
As for some high IQ people not being intellectually curious. There's no guarantee someone with a high IQ will be useful, interesting or the like. While high IQ is undoubtedly a requirement for achievement in many fields it's not anywhere close to sufficient. If only this were the case. The world would move forward at an accelerated pace.