[-] dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

@bitofhope @swlabr

... but, apparently, if your parents were particularly bright humans and mine were relatively dim humans, but we then got adopted by the same family and given the same educational opportunities etc., the chance that you will end up brighter than me is only very slightly better than 50/50.

[-] dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

@bitofhope @swlabr

If you click enough links, you get to this substack article which I think all the discussion is about. https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/no-intelligence-is-not-like-height

Which indicates that IQ is a little bit heritable, just much less than other traits and with way more confounds.

Which, when you think about the extreme examples, makes sense - if your parents were humans, and mine were golden retrievers, you will be a human and I will be a golden retriever, and you will almost certainly have a higher IQ than me.

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