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Intelligence is Inherited

Posted by michael on from the insanity-is-too dept.

codeButcher writes: "Now you can blame it on your parents! NewScientist.com reports on a study done on twins, that determines that IQ [and lack thereof then too, I suppose] is inherited. Quote: The finding suggests that environment - their own personal experiences, what they learned in life, who they knew - played a negligible role in shaping it."

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  1. Intelligence vs. IQ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The title of this article is misleading. Intelligence and IQ are two very, very different things. Having a high IQ may be a factor in making someone intelligent, but it's only that -- a factor. There are plenty of people with high IQs that aren't particularly bright, and I've met people with average IQs that are more intelligent than I can safely imagine.

    In practice, IQs measure only one skill: how well you do on IQ tests.

    (Incidentally, this isn't sour grapes -- I don't know what my IQ is exactly, but I'm told it's within a fraction of the top 1 percentile. And I don't consider myself particularly intelligent either.)

  2. Re:IQ Bunkum by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no good quantifiable measurement for intelligence.

    You mean there is no generally accepted definition of intelligence.

    Once you reach a conclusion as to what skills represent intelligence, it is quite clear that a test evaluating those skills is a very short step.