Today i learned that Intelligence is heritable and it was a gut punch knowing my parents.
Can anyone clue me in on how it’s expressed or is it a soft cap?
Are highly hifted children anomalies or is it just a good expression of genes?
In: Biology
I’m no expert, but I think intelligence is largely a nature vs nurture thing. Two genius parents can have a child with learning disability, and two average parents can have a genius child. It is more about what the parents do with the child they are given. If the average parents of a child with genius traits mistreat him, make him believe he is stupid for being different, etc., then no matter how good genetically the child is, he will go a large portion of his life believing he is stupid, thus his talents will largely go to waste unless he reparents himself. But any average child can study hard and be interested in a field, and become an expert, largely with supportive and encouraging parents.
This is why all those developmental toys, books, etc. are actually important. And good grades in school don’t always mean someone is smart. I am an educator, and more often than not, in a test, it is more about if you know how to approach the tasks than your actual knowledge, especially in humanities like languages, art, etc. You have to produce what is requested, not what you know or can do.
My mom was extremely encouraging about learning instruments, languages, doing arts and crafts, etc. And as an adult I am a fully humanities kind of person – speak 8 languages, play 2 instruments, sew and do cosplay, etc. However, as an adult I learned that to be a functioning member of the society you need to be logical and a problem-solver. So I am also good at that, but I largely taught that to myself just because me being emotional and gentle wasn’t optimal in the society. Now I am extremely good at organisation, optimisation and similar things.
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